Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Politically incorrect...

Try this anywhere else in the world: Jew Street (!)

The Soviets (I think) put up a monument to a famous Jewish scholar of the far distant past:The Vilnius Genius, as he was called. Ths was one of many bizarre ways of honoring Jews (a mystical, albeit vanished species, like gnomes or fairies or leprechauns) in order to show how 'enlightened' they were.

The Gaon of Vilne

But here's the problem- Orthodox Jews are not allowed to create any graven images, as in a statue of a human being. In Jewish Law, a person is not allowed to be shown in any art form.  This most famous of mathematicians would have been insulted and horrified to know that he has been immortalized in the form of a stone and marble monument of his head.

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