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My father came to America from the shtetl just about a hundred years ago, and almost immediately left the Jewish life behind.
The discontinuity between Jewish life in the Russian shtetl in 1897 and Jewish life in the Watergate Apartments in Washington in 1997 must be the greatest one-century gap in Jewish life since the Exodus.
Most of his characters, despite Orthodox childhoods, began their rebellion against God before World War II, in the '20s and '30s when Jews were stepping out of shtetl culture for the first time in a thousand years.
Such paintings, along with the swirling Céret landscapes, struck collectors of the 1920s as "naive," just the sort of unschooled stuff you'd expect from a Slavic child of the shtetl . The critic Waldemar George wrote in 1928, "Is this not the art of an exile, or even a savage?"
All in all, I believe that if I ever meet one of my forebears, one of those pale, skinny yeshiva students from the eastern European shtetl of 1897, I will be able to say to him, "I, too, am a Jew--not a saint, but a Jew like you."