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SHLOMZION 20:1 DOI 10.1215/0961754X-2374889 © 2013 by Duke University Press They campaigned to have him discharged. He endured a public humiliation at his barracks, then was sent home to Metz, to the unwelcoming society of his fellow Jews and to the embrace of his wife, Rose, and their five daughters. This story is almost all I ever knew of Leon Leon. Salome told us very little. She would often quote things she had learned from him or mention his name bashfully, as if he were an excuse for all the things she knew. "C'est Papa," she would say with a little laugh after referring to a biblical passage or a talmudic concept in polite conversation. She used to cover her face with her beautiful hand as if she were giving confession to her fingers for a sin she had not meant to commit. My mother found the allusions and the confessions equally discomfiting. "She shouldn't know so much. Nothing good will come of it." From the little that Salome did tell, it was clear that Leon Leon was a man of books and not of society. He was very devout but privately so. I once overheard Salome confide to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

SHLOMZION

Isaacs, A.
Common Knowledge , Volume 20 (1) – Dec 21, 2014
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20:1 DOI 10.1215/0961754X-2374889 © 2013 by Duke University Press They campaigned to have him discharged. He endured a public humiliation at his barracks, then was sent home to Metz, to the unwelcoming society of his fellow Jews and to the embrace of his wife, Rose, and their five daughters. This story is almost all I ever knew of Leon Leon. Salome told us very little. She would often quote things she had learned from him or mention his name bashfully, as if he were an excuse for all the things she knew. "C'est Papa," she would say with a little laugh after referring to a biblical passage or a talmudic concept in polite conversation. She used to cover her face with her beautiful hand as if she were giving confession to her fingers for a sin she had not meant to commit. My mother found the allusions and the confessions equally discomfiting. "She shouldn't know so much. Nothing good will come of it." From the little that Salome did tell, it was clear that Leon Leon was a man of books and not of society. He was very devout but privately so. I once overheard Salome confide to

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Published: Dec 21, 2014

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