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Eric Cantor’s speech is, as predicted, not good. Here’s a curious error, presumably by a young staffer, or spell check:
“Like so many of their generation living in Eastern Europe at the turn of the last century, my grandparents fled the vicious anti-Semitic
programs of the czars of Russia to come to America.”[
The word is
pogroms. I d have to look at the speech to see if Cantor actually thinks his ancestors were fleeing programs. Pogroms were anti-Semitic riots in Russia before the Revolution. They’re mentioned in Israel Zangwill’s 1908 play
The Melting Pot,and I mentioned them in an article years ago: