Автор размышляет на модную в Польше тему: а не лучше ли было в 1939-м заключить пакт с Гитлером против Сталина? Или со Сталиным против Гитлера? Но союз с любым из двух убьет повод любоваться собой как жертвой обоих. В итоге вывод: мы все делали правильно, но дело испортили украинцы в 1919-м и чехи в 1938-м. А вот теперь, когда все против РФ, осечки не будет.
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Pope John Paul II, welcomed to the Great Synagogue of Rome by Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff in 1986
Today, January 17, 2021, is precisely 20 years since Pope John Paul II gave a remarkable General Audience, warning about mankind’s disastrous relationship with nature. Man is no longer the Creator’s steward, the Pope said, but an “autonomous despot”. The Pope chose to give his General Audience on Italy’s “Jewish-Christian Friendship Day”.
In his 1978 acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer employed memories from his earliest years as a source of hope for coping with the troubles of modern times:
“In our home and in many other homes the eternal questions were more actual than the latest news in the Yiddish newspaper,” he said. “In spite of all the disenchantments and all my skepticism I believe that the nations can learn much from those Jews, their way of thinking, their way of bringing up children, their finding happiness where others see nothing but misery and humiliation.”
As a teenager, in the midst of the First World War, Singer moved with his siblings and his mother to her hometown, the small shtetl of Biłgoraj, where they belonged to a prominent rabbinical family.