Jennifer: Great post! I feel like James Joyce just signed on... On the other hand, I think less contempt for us poor weak mortals, both Jewish and "goyish" (by the way, I personally find that kind of an in-crowd offensive term, kinda like "whitey", the "n-word", or "schvartze"...I think gentile is gentler) might be in order. After all, who among us doesn't like a good meal and a nice place to sleep? Who among us doesn't look foolish sometimes, and who among us won't get old and shuffle alonng, much to the amusement of the young'uns (only those who die before they get there.) Particularly if you work in a museum, tolerance of people's variety seems to me to be a virtue. It's all too easy to be contemptous of visitors of all stripes. I think that the prospect of going to a holocaust museum is filled with stress for people of all races, and the reassurance of a nice place to stay and eat is a perfectly natural "sell." Anyway, again, I admired the poetry of your post, but I find myself more sympathetic with the hoteliers and the shuffling grandmas and pas. Eric Siegel [log in to unmask]