{"id":4971,"date":"2008-09-15T17:56:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T01:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=4971"},"modified":"2008-09-15T20:22:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T04:22:41","slug":"the-twlight-of-the-luftmenschen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=4971","title":{"rendered":"The Twlight of the Luftmenschen"},"content":{"rendered":"

ChaimAmalek:  This is the twilight of the Luftmenschen.
\nYourMoralLeader:  what are Luftmenschen?
\nChaimAmalek:  A yiddishism….someone who seems to live on air
\nChaimAmalek:  A trader who trades in the trades of others
\nChaimAmalek:  Or who takes a bunch of mortgages, bundles them together, turns them into some esoteric financial instrument that he trades to the ignorant greedy goyim
\nChaimAmalek:  Lehman was a 150 year old firm founded by German Jews
\nChaimAmalek:  Gone with the wind . . . ……
\nUser guest13 left the room.
\nChaimAmalek:  Thank God we still have Goldman Sachs.  A world withoug Goldman would be world in which the living would envy the dead
\nChaimAmalek:  Mark my words, Mr. Ford.<\/p>\n

Joe emails: “Luke, your friend’s yiddish is incorrect. You may be a luftmensch, I may aspire to be one, but no one who trades bonds can be a luftmensch. It means the kind of intellectual with no practical life skills other than exploring the mind, etc. Literally a person whose head is in the air. In French it would be the flaneur, like in Bauderlaire’s line about the imagined horror of being a person who might be actually useful.
\nNasty little antisemitic idea that Lehmann was founded to cheat goyim, as well, assimilated German Jews wouldn’t have even used a term like goyim in that sense.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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