tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post8855843036649198916..comments2024-01-21T02:58:08.208-05:00Comments on On the Main Line: On Chutzpah.Mississippi Fred MacDowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734864605700159687noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-46817373380020252852011-08-17T10:36:55.344-04:002011-08-17T10:36:55.344-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10835765313821869667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-73086485538457858452011-08-01T22:46:08.949-04:002011-08-01T22:46:08.949-04:00Then there was Ronald Reagan: "Hutspida"...Then there was Ronald Reagan: "Hutspida"MDJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-82211318527097654402011-07-24T18:12:20.425-04:002011-07-24T18:12:20.425-04:00Lawrence Kaplan, I believe this is what you're...Lawrence Kaplan, I believe this is what you're looking for:<br />http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ABOUT-WORDS/2003-04/1051424321<br /><br />and<br /><br />http://www.jlaw.com/Commentary/SupremeChutzpah.html<br /><br />--PhilAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-24228957872278339982011-07-24T16:08:40.355-04:002011-07-24T16:08:40.355-04:00Sorry that was a little too hasty, the supreme cou...Sorry that was a little too hasty, the supreme court ruling using the word chutzpa is in fact in this ruling: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=15892487577737897917&q=chutzpah&hl=en&as_sdt=4,60&as_ylo=2009<br />It was written by chief justice robertsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-58326773516839455932011-07-24T15:59:26.752-04:002011-07-24T15:59:26.752-04:00Last year there was a supreme court ruling that us...Last year there was a supreme court ruling that used the word chutzpa. It was in the case of National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley, and was written by justice Scalia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-54063192747527149172011-07-24T08:48:25.956-04:002011-07-24T08:48:25.956-04:00I seem to recall an article in a legal journal ab...I seem to recall an article in a legal journal about the use of Hutzpah in American judicial decisions. Could someone better at searching than I try to corroborate this?<br /><br />Lawrence KaplanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-18614802673985937002011-07-24T01:27:50.989-04:002011-07-24T01:27:50.989-04:00I understand what he means aboutt the "self c...I understand what he means aboutt the "self confidence", and why he views it as a negative. Just subsitute the word "brash", and you will grasp his point. What he means is that the Jew, rather than content himself with creating poetry or prose from existing styles, is always looking to create. A new turn of phrase, a new style, a new everything. He is identifying the restlessness of the Jew in its literary incarnation. (<br />(Not saying I agree with his assessment or not, I'm saying that's what I think he means.)<br /><br /><br />ZG<br /><br />DFDFhttp://wwwmyahoo.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-19729696760311455192011-07-23T23:13:16.003-04:002011-07-23T23:13:16.003-04:00A year ago you wrote....
"Hayon is a major c...A year ago you wrote....<br /><br />"Hayon is a major character in a recently published book Midnight Intruders by Avner Gold, part of a historical fiction series for children, which I intend to review soon."<br /><br />I'm still looking forward to that review, or did I miss it?Chaimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-3640926090949048162011-07-22T13:35:21.001-04:002011-07-22T13:35:21.001-04:00Politicians (or their impressionists) mangling &qu...Politicians (or their impressionists) mangling "chutzpah" is nothing new. Forty years ago, David Frye as President Nixon pronounced it “shutz-par.” Frye's original name, BTW, was Shapiro.<br /><br />The genteel anti-Semitism of the Quarterly Review article, with its grudging, wish-I'd-said-that admiration of Heine's "undeniable gifts of genius," is at least a few steps removed from the Nazi approach, which was to relabel Heine's popular works as "anonymous."Dan Kleinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-26559344603844739292011-07-21T16:42:19.780-04:002011-07-21T16:42:19.780-04:00Now, that's self-confidence!
Here's a res...Now, that's self-confidence!<br /><br /><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=17909585085349815616&q=chutzpah&hl=en&ved=0CDcQ-gswAg&sa=X&ei=3Y4oTsH7K5XozAW56qHuCA" rel="nofollow">Here's</a> a restaurant called Chutzpah in Virginia.S.http://onthemainline.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-48273818307073964142011-07-21T16:37:53.309-04:002011-07-21T16:37:53.309-04:00I once spent a vacation in Savannah, GA. I saw tha...I once spent a vacation in Savannah, GA. I saw that there was a restaurant named "Chutzpah". Intrigued, I went in, and asked the woman there (99% sure she wasn't Jewish) what the name of the place was. She actually turned her face sideways and said, "choot spa".<br />As you could've probably guessed, they served treif.<br />-PhilAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com