Re: [CR]Re: Jewish builders

(Example: Framebuilders:Dario Pegoretti)

Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:34:30 -0700
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Jewish builders
References: <20031111140043.VHWC3108.de-fe01.dejazzd.com@[10.199.5.7]> <00ed01c3a8c1$be868fb0$efddfea9@mooshome>


jerrymoos wrote:
>
> (cut) The religion of a builder who is 5th or 6th generation
> in his country of residence probably isn't very relevant, but the Russians
> Jews who fled Russia in the late 19th and early 20th century exerted a
> powerful and mostly very positive cultural influence on the countries where
> they settled in many fields of endeavor including bicycle building. (cut)

Question:

What if you left Russia in the late 19th and early 20th century to build bikes in England and you weren't Jewish? Oh... and you exerted a powerful and mostly very positive cultural influence on England, but you weren't Jewish?

Chuck "funny, I don't look Jewish" Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California

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