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18TH CORPS BADGE WITH JEWISH STAR OF DAVID IN THE CENTER

Jack’s grandfather had been Jewish by birth, but he had become a Catholic when he married Jack’s grandmother, who was of Austrian parentage. Jack’s father had married Jack’s mother, an Italian-American, and they raised Jack in a predominantly Italian-American neighborhood. Jack’s wife Rachel was Jewish by birth, and even though Jack had converted to Judaism long before they met and got married, Rachel always insisted she was “more Jewish” than Jack. To prove her point, she would cite instances of anti-Semitism, her early awarenesss of the Holocaust, her grandmother’s repeated rapes at the hands of Don Cossacks in Ukraine, and so on. Jack never told Rachel that his nickname among his childhood friends in his Italian-American neighborhood was “Jewboy.”

About the Author
Marco Kaufman has published in several different fields, including literary criticism, medical writing, and Holocaust historicism and currently writes on The Big Book of Grievances, his weblog of short fiction, flash fiction, and works in progress.

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