“I would like to share with my fellow chaplains and my bishop some reflections on the Catholic-Jewish dialogue. For today we are dealing with Talmudic Judaism, which has nothing in common with Biblical Judaism. Jewish thinking, Jewish attitudes come from there, from the Talmud. We find it in The Painted Bird, in the stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer, in the recent reports on Jedwabne. It’s all made-up.” The name of the speaker is never mentioned, but I recognize the voice of the priest and professor Waldemar Chrostowski, vice president of the Catholic University in Warsaw. “Why is there talk of the number sixteen hundred, despite the exhumation?” I listen on. “We Christians wish to reconstruct the facts. For the Jews, the facts have no significance. We express sympathy, but their answer comes down to this: how much can we get out of this? Germany paid a hundred billion marks to Israel. When that source dried up, they started to look elsewhere. We didn’t know about a lot of these accusations, they were turned into moral categories, but then they were translated into sixty-five billion in financial compensation.
What do You think about The Crime And The Silence?
