The Ashkenazi Revolution

243The Ashkenazi community in Argentina was founded in 1862, though it wasconsolidated only in 1880, after the pogroms in Czarist Russia, whichvomited out many Jews (the bold is mine) to the shores of North and SouthAmerica.The Sephardic leader Yosef Hod goes out of his way to use the term“vomited out” to describe the situation of Jews who escaped the Czaristpogroms. The words “expelled” or “victimized” seem too delicate andnoble for him to use toward Ashkenazim. One should ask, however, in allopenness, why should we have anything to do with the Sephardic leaderswho identify, psychologically, with the Czarist regime that expelledAshkenazim, and who regret that Hitler did not “finish” all of us? Ofcourse the Sephardic leaders are free citizens, with equal rights in thedemocratic State of Israel. It is their right to sit in the Knesset and ingovernment. But any affinity between them and us is entirely false. Weshould stop the silence regarding their verbal assaults. To their slanders weshould answer with powerful blows of disgust and derision. Moreover:There is no place for a Sephardic leader within an Ashkenazi society thatrespects itself. We should push him away from Ashkenazi society andexpel him to his own domain, to the Sephardic regions of the wildernessand dessert. As he wanders in this barren spiritual ruin, he will lose the fewlinks that connected him to the modern era and he will quickly descend tohis rightful place in the twentieth century: In the abyss of no-time.11The Ashkenazi Samson and the Sephardic Delilah stand opposite eachother in the State of Israel. Sepharad is feminine. The external, thegraphic, and the aesthetic have become her primary concern. She hasabandoned the deep logic of Maimonides and has grasped the shiny uppercrust. Her greatest ammunition is the sweet-sounding Sephardicpronunciation. All of her other weapons were taken from the eternalfeminine armory: Begging, tears, pleas, and requests are all evidence of alack of dedication and patience. Sepharad pleas, she makes up her facewith the newest makeup, changes her dress and appears in new forms – all