April 28, 2025 - Dennis Prager Show
03:16
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| I've often noted in explaining Jews to non-Jews that Jews underwent, even if they lost no family member or anyone they knew in the Holocaust, the Holocaust was a trauma. | |
| Basically, Jews have PTSD. | |
| It's much less true for the next generation, but for my generation, born right after World War II, There is no question. | |
| I am very rational and I was very affected by the trauma of something none of my relatives and no one I knew was affected by. | |
| But it's very difficult to be aware of what the Jews of Europe underwent, the horrors, the unspeakable horrors. | |
| And to think that it was brought upon every single Jew, babies and elderly, were targeted for extermination. | |
| It affects you. | |
| And it did have a... | |
| There was a PTSD element in Jewish life. | |
| There's no question. | |
| With regard to blacks, I can't comment... | |
| Nearly as knowledgeably. | |
| But I don't understand if 150 years later there is still a trauma over slavery. | |
| Look, there might be, but I don't fully understand it because this next generation, young Jews, I don't think, have nearly the trauma of the Holocaust that Jews who... | |
| Lived at the time, like my parents' generation, or right after my generation have. | |
| But there is such a thing. | |
| I've thought about this a fair amount, and I remember being on a panel with a Catholic and Protestant, very intelligent people. | |
| Long time ago. | |
| And it was pointed out that Protestants are the most optimistic of the groups, Protestant Catholic Jew. | |
| And it's because they didn't undergo trauma. | |
| Many Catholics did because of World War II. | |
| As an example, and the suffering of Poles who are Catholic, as an example, and of other groups in Europe. | |
| Protestants, much less so. | |
| Protestants have it the best among Catholics, Jews, and Protestants. | |
| So they tend to be the most optimistic. |
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