Slog - Comments on My New Dwindling Community http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/my_new_community Last night at around 3 am, I joined the mailing list for the Zimbabwe Jewish Community. Though the present number of Jews in Zimbabwe is extremely small, around 250 (and mostly old people who can't leave the horrible place), not too long ago their number was beyond 7,000 and growing. This web site aims to celebrate nearly 110 years of Jewish Communities in Zimbabwe and help record the history and details of a unique period for the benefit of both current and future generations. From a peak of some 7,500 Jews in the early 1970s - the total Zimbabwe Jewish... Copyright 2008 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:18:11 -0800 Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:17:36 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Fnarf I'm sorry, Charles. I think about Zimbabwe often.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/my_new_community#c684258 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/my_new_community#c684258 History Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:25:26 -0800 Comment by Lawrence Molloy Yes Charles. It is sad to see one person selfishly dragging an entire nation down.

]]> Lawrence Molloy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/my_new_community#c684286 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/my_new_community#c684286 History Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:46:06 -0800 Comment by lmfn What's the meaning of the caption?

"What a lovely bracelet on that wrist."

]]> lmfn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/my_new_community#c684324 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/my_new_community#c684324 History Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:16:11 -0800 Comment by elswinger I like what the bracelet is wearing.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/my_new_community#c684325 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/my_new_community#c684325 History Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:16:54 -0800 Comment by Snagglepuss Aha, evidence that you even bore yourself:
"I did not join the Zimbabwe Jewish Community’s website out of boredom brought on by insomnia"
Alas, you do not bore yourself to sleep like you do so many otherzzz zzz zzzzz

]]> Snagglepuss http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/my_new_community#c684331 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/my_new_community#c684331 History Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:21:08 -0800 Comment by gnossos hey Snagglepuss, how bout a long motherfuckin' walk off a short motherfuckin' pier for you?


Talk about adding insult to injury.

]]> gnossos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/my_new_community#c684372 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/my_new_community#c684372 History Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:48:33 -0800 Comment by Deeply Depressed I can assure you Charles, you play no part n this history you celebrate. The hopfull days you nostalgically write about were the bastion of a very privilaged few and you would certainly have been excluded for the pictured gathering unless you were the unfortunate houseboy tasked with cleaning up afterwards.

]]> Deeply Depressed http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/my_new_community#c684576 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/my_new_community#c684576 History Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:20:50 -0800 Comment by charles mudede actually, deeply depressed, the year this photo was taken, 1969, i was born to educated parents and in very comfortable circumstances. so there is room in the image for my nostalgia. and even if you were not as fortunate as my parents, then at least you had a job, a pension, and could expect to live far beyond the present life expectancy of 34.

]]> charles mudede http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/my_new_community#c684612 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/my_new_community#c684612 History Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:01:10 -0800 Comment by Deeply Depressed I am surpised to read you say that Charles. I've read a quite a few of your posts and one theme that is popular in your writings is the march of modernity - the rejecion of old archacisms that give way to new universalities. Rhodesia, Charles was exactly the crusty remnant of the glorious past that a modernist like you would reject. The Anglo stratified class structure emboded by what neighborhood you lived in (Borrowdale - uperclass white, Hatfield - middle class black or Mufacose - poor black), what school you attended, what accent you spoke your English with all in an attempt to create a mirror image of mother England. Your (and my) disgust of Mugabe aside, Rhodesia was an epoch that needed to go - if only to make way for a true Zimbabweanism - not the shallow recreation of Anglosaxon society.

]]> Deeply Depressed http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/my_new_community#c684641 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/my_new_community#c684641 History Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:53:52 -0800 Comment by charles mudede deeply depressed, i see, you know harare very well. i actually must be a little clear on my position. what i find in these images, is the potential for progress, the materials for progress. the potential that was once there is now gone. is the future possible today in zimbabwe? no. but it was back then.

]]> charles mudede http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/my_new_community#c685074 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/my_new_community#c685074 History Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:05:49 -0800 Comment by Dave Charles - I am editor of the ZJC (www.zjc.org.il) website please contact me.

thanks

Dave

]]> Dave http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/my_new_community#c687361 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/my_new_community#c687361 History Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:17:36 -0800