tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post1745701016369001549..comments2024-01-21T02:58:08.208-05:00Comments on On the Main Line: A practical joke at a circumcision in London circa 1725.Mississippi Fred MacDowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734864605700159687noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-55033858426645014132010-10-07T18:53:26.572-04:002010-10-07T18:53:26.572-04:00My eighty-year old uncle was once sitting on a par...My eighty-year old uncle was once sitting on a park bench, when he was accosted by a thug, demanding his wallet. One quick jab by my uncle's fist (yeah, he used to be a boxer) sent the youth running. <br />-PhilAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-1037666098518907772010-10-06T02:21:35.288-04:002010-10-06T02:21:35.288-04:00Abba, of course you're correct about the Jewis...Abba, of course you're correct about the Jewish boxing connection, but as one whose name has too often been mistaken for "David," I must point out that it was Daniel Mendoza, not David.Dan(iel) Kleinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-61887212028741961192010-10-06T01:47:57.905-04:002010-10-06T01:47:57.905-04:00Terrific stuff. Keep it up. Interesting that the...Terrific stuff. Keep it up. Interesting that the bris was held in shul, and not in a home. For some reason, I had believed that circumcisions in synagogues were of more modern advent. Not sure on what basis, though.<br /><br />Also interesting to glimpse the social relationship between Jew and gentile during this time and in this place. Surprisingly cordial and open.Arinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-1747161174671715392010-10-05T12:35:55.034-04:002010-10-05T12:35:55.034-04:00stereotype not quite the right word, but . . .
th...stereotype not quite the right word, but . . .<br /><br />there was an infatuation with circumcision in the sense that christians feared that there was a jewish plot to circumcise them (e.g., think "pound of flesh")<br /><br />also, there was an association bewtween jews and boxing in 19th c. england (which of course became even stronger in america), fueled especially by david mendoza, considered the father of modern boxing<br /><br />(if you have jts exhibit catalogue "the Jew as other: a century of english caricature, 1730-1830," seeabba's rantingshttp://abbasrantings.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-41222771892865225472010-10-05T11:17:13.664-04:002010-10-05T11:17:13.664-04:00Circumcision is a stereotype? And boxers? Next you...Circumcision is a stereotype? And boxers? Next you'll tell me that dentists are a stereotype.S.http://onthemainline.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com