John Hughes
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The idea that there may once have been a place, a supranational place where national identities were somehow less important than some sort of collective identity.
Because he does see nationalism as a fundamental evil.
Nationalism is something he totally rejected, in all its forms.
He rejected Zionism as well, incidentally.
He saw it as a form of nationalism.
So no matter what the motivation was, he rejects nationalism and sees it as pernicious.
John?
Yeah, I would agree.
There's something he says in one of his early Foyton articles, Going for a Walk, where he says it's only the minutiae in life that count.
And it's the little details that he's captured and made permanent in his work that makes it still sort of sing today, I would say.
Helen?
Perhaps we could say a little bit more about Roth's own Jewishness.
I mean, he had a somewhat, perhaps it's no surprise, but he had a slightly sort of contradictory sense of himself as a Jew.
As Helen mentioned, he did write quite extensively about the Jewish community and the lives of the Eastern Jews in the 1920s.
And the collection of essays, The Wandering Jews, was published in 1927.
But what's interesting about it is,
One of the things that's interesting about it is that he never identifies himself as a Jew.
He observes the community almost as an anthropologist might, you know, without actually mentioning that he'd grown up pretty much within that community in Galicia.
As I mentioned in our main discussion, he rejected Zionism, for example.
He was also quite critical of Jews who had assimilated and westernized themselves, even though he himself was very much a westernized, assimilated Jew.
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