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There are ethnically Jewish people, and religiously Jewish people. The latter can be by choice, but the former cannot by definition. Siegel and Shuster are ethn
by LocalH 4y ago
There are ethnically Jewish people, and religiously Jewish people. The latter can be by choice, but the former cannot by definition. Siegel and Shuster are ethnically Jewish. As such, their Jewish culture would have been part of their influence in creating the Superman.
- cf100clunk 4y agoA related thought experiment: in Shuster's case, substitude Jewish for Canadian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Shuster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Shuster Both work for me, and in the context of how two young men impacted U.S. settler culture, with its profoundly Anglo-Saxon basis, it is entirely valid to identify their cultural, religious, and/or political background.