This is museum appropriate? I find it or at least some content material
offensive
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From: "Carol Ely" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: Historic Interpretation Glossary


> > The Journeyman Historic Interpretation Glossary
> > A dictionary of common-usage terms used in Historic Interpretation and
> > Living History
> > Cloth-Jew: A tailor of historical costumes who is overly stingy with
> > period-appropriate cloth. Coined by Joe Albert Blunt,
> > Chattanooga-Chickamauga National Battlefield
>
> At the risk of seeming to be politically correct, might I point out that
> anti-Semitism isn't funny or enlightening? What a shame to see this
> offensive and inaccurate stereotype perpetuated through a mailing list for
> museum professionals. If this is indeed common usage at a public
historical
> site, I think there's a little educating to be done.
>
> As Abraham Lincoln said, in rescinding General Grant's notorious 1862
Order
> #11 expelling Jewish traders (in fact, all Jews) in the Mississippi
valley:
> "to condemn a class is, to say the least, to wrong the good with the bad."
> Lincoln would not allow any American to be pre-judged or classified on the
> basis of religious affiliation, and Grant later apologized.
>
> Carol Ely, Ph.D.
> Museum Consultant, Louisville
> author, "Jewish Louisville: A Social History" forthcoming 2003
>
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