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Article: Proust's Nose.
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- Social Research
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- March 22, 2000
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IN 1889, there appeared an article in the Archives Israelites in which the author chastised those Jews who tried too hard to fit into mainstream French society by Frenchifying their names and downplaying their ethnic background. While such gestures were well known in other Diaspora societies that demanded Jewish acculturation, there was one rather surprising claim: that the practice of wearing "fake noses" (faux nez) would bring no good to those who indulged in such activities.
Almost a hundred years later on January 30, 1983, Rabbi Howard Berman of Chicago's Sinai Congregation recounted the following anecdote in a lecture remembering the well-known Chicago ...
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