I'm still thinking about this and trying to figure out why I think it's important beyond just being an incredibly sad read, and I think it's this - the way she expresses herself is unacceptably blunt by today's standards, but a lot of her opinions are still largely held. https://twitter.com/JustSayXtian/status/1253503884749750272

This, for instance, is such an encapsulation of the hegemonic Christian insistance on being constantly comfortable. She excoriates Jews, blaming antisemitism on a refusal to assimilate, but she's offended at a Jewish family in a Jewish home not accomodating her goyishness.

This insistence that 'Jewish' and 'Citizen' are in conflict and one must be prioritized over the other is such a perfect explication of the dual loyalty trope. People can't conceive of the two being inextricable, non-prioritized parts of a single identity.

This casual, unexamined supersessionism is still everywhere, the belief that there is no conceivable reason for Jews to want to remain Jews apart from stubbornness, and held within it the idea that Christianity is a natural next step from Judaism and not a totally different thing

See also: the belief that reading the "Old Testament" - a Christian interpretation of part of Jewish sacred texts, with none of the surrounding interpretation - gives Christians an understanding of Judaism, and Jews *owe it* to Christians to read the "New Testament"

See also: the unexamined belief that teaching Christian interpretation of the Jewish kings and prophets (as an analog to Jesus, of course) encapsulated and includes Judaism. With the added caveat that it's okay to be Jewish, as long as you're not TOO Jewish.

I think the reason this 80 year old dumpster fire has me fascinated is that while it seems dated, most of what she says is still common belief in the hegemonic culture.

We're mostly in agreement now that Hitler was bad, we're not quite so into race theory, but the underlying beliefs about Jews and Christians are still pretty prevalent.

Side note: I don't think this is something that is typical of interfaith marriages. I think most intermarriages, then and now, involve way more understanding and compassion than this. I'm talking about society at large, not individual marriages.