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Question of the Week: What famous thinker, whose
books were burned by the Nazis, said that the antisemitism he
experienced "produced one important result. At a rather early
date, I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical
minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority. A certain
independence of judgment was therefore developed."

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Groucho Marx was
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1. The People Who Disappeared
strange, quirky ' From
about 1720 to 1745, in a small town called
Schafferstown, Pa., an entire community of German
and wonderful Baptists decided to begin observing a number of
I mitzvot. They kept kosher, observed Shabbat, created
stuff you I what they called a schul and had a cantor lead
them in prayer. They also established their
cemetery in 1732, though it has since
never knew! own
been destroyed.

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mally converted to Judaism, why they wanted

2. The Third Man
Among the questions Brown
University asked of its incom-
ing freshmen in 1975 was,
"Whom do you admire most
from world history?"
The first most-popular answer.
was Jesus. The second was
Albert Schweitzer. The third was
Groucho Marx.

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