http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/19584/mag-tells-converstion-stories/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mag-tells-converstion-stories A New Read on Jewish Life Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:06:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/19584/mag-tells-converstion-stories/#comment-7235 Tinamarie Bernard Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:45:29 +0000 http://www.tabletmag.com/?p=19584#comment-7235 Dear Sara, I certainly understand why you might think that parts of these conversion stories border on improbable. Most certainly, the desire to convert to Judaism took me by surprise. I learned much about my great-grandfather's role in Nazi Germany after I was well-along in the process, and what I discovered was emotionally quite challenging for me at the time. I'm sorry if that didn't come out in the article in Moment Magazine. Perhaps the most precious aspect of coming to terms with my family history was the overwhelming response I received from my new Jewish community: acceptance. Finally, it needs to be acknowledged that the Moment article was necessarily limited in space, and some of the details that may make it easier to understand why I feel I was Jewish all along - an experience not uncommon to many converts - just didn't come through. I am the great-granddaughter of a high-ranking Nazi and a Jew. Like it or not, I accept these opposites as part of my identity, my story, my journey. Dear Sara,
I certainly understand why you might think that parts of these conversion stories border on improbable. Most certainly, the desire to convert to Judaism took me by surprise. I learned much about my great-grandfather’s role in Nazi Germany after I was well-along in the process, and what I discovered was emotionally quite challenging for me at the time. I’m sorry if that didn’t come out in the article in Moment Magazine.
Perhaps the most precious aspect of coming to terms with my family history was the overwhelming response I received from my new Jewish community: acceptance.
Finally, it needs to be acknowledged that the Moment article was necessarily limited in space, and some of the details that may make it easier to understand why I feel I was Jewish all along – an experience not uncommon to many converts – just didn’t come through.
I am the great-granddaughter of a high-ranking Nazi and a Jew. Like it or not, I accept these opposites as part of my identity, my story, my journey.

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