Generation without Memory: A Jewish Journey in Christian America
Anne Roiphe
1981
There are contradictions and ambivalences in our celebrating Thanksgiving. We are recent Americans. It wasn’t the Mayflower that brought our people over here. We know too much about what the coming of the white men did to the Indian and therefore the sweet pictures that the children draw of Pilgrim and corn provoke other images of Indians dying of…
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