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<p>[QUOTE="Fid, post: 4447669, member: 7724"]"It has been our experience as used booksellers, however, that there is little demand for such Jewish texts."</p><p>true.</p><p>reminds me always of the story the Turkish owner of a second-hand shop told me when I asked about some similar in his shop. a nephew of him - freshly arrived from Turkey, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not reading our script, a bit of German but not the local dialect - received a phone call from a Jewish home for the aged and was happy they offered him books for free...</p><p>so he brought back approximately 300 kilograms of these and the shopowner made a roll backwards when he saw them. so they went directly to the waste incineration of the city - not for free of course, cost him quite a bit...</p><p>and these books were from a home for people that came for the most part of the old European East ! not even those did them read anymore.</p><p>from what I read about the Jewish communities in the States many leaders are complaining about the amount of mixed marriages these days because fearing a loss of tradition.</p><p>but that's th same in Europe with the old Printing fonts - the young ones don't know and don't read them anymore.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Fid, post: 4447669, member: 7724"]"It has been our experience as used booksellers, however, that there is little demand for such Jewish texts." true. reminds me always of the story the Turkish owner of a second-hand shop told me when I asked about some similar in his shop. a nephew of him - freshly arrived from Turkey, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not reading our script, a bit of German but not the local dialect - received a phone call from a Jewish home for the aged and was happy they offered him books for free... so he brought back approximately 300 kilograms of these and the shopowner made a roll backwards when he saw them. so they went directly to the waste incineration of the city - not for free of course, cost him quite a bit... and these books were from a home for people that came for the most part of the old European East ! not even those did them read anymore. from what I read about the Jewish communities in the States many leaders are complaining about the amount of mixed marriages these days because fearing a loss of tradition. but that's th same in Europe with the old Printing fonts - the young ones don't know and don't read them anymore.[/QUOTE]
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