Bernard Polishuk, mensch
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Date: 2008-02-13 06:27 pm (UTC)B
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Date: 2008-02-15 07:43 am (UTC)By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: February 20, 2006 New York Times Op/Ed page
"Be a mensch," my parents told me. Literally, a mensch is a person. But by implication, a mensch is an upstanding person who takes responsibility for his actions.
The people now running America aren't mensches.
The essay can be found at http://select.nytimes.com/2006/02/20/opinion/20krugman.html?hp
I found it on www.answers.com looking up the word mensch, because I thought that I knew (and did know) what it meant, but I've been looking up words today to make sure that I am using them in a way that other people use them. There I saw the delightful quote, above, and said to myself, I remember that, reread it, and found it remains good.
Thank you for introducing me to the remembrance of Bernard Polishuk, 1928-1999, mensch.