The name, for many of us, evokes the embodiment of evil attack, unwarranted persecution, and unprovoked violence that our Torah commands us to remember and never forget. It is our anti-talisman, that which we hold up to remind ourselves that our existence has historically and in the present day always been under threat.
I’m a historian. I know of no other culture, no other nation, no other people who does not have a generational memory of a threat - of invasion, exile, violence. This has a...