Jonathan,
Since you encourage close reading: What do you understand Pound to mean by
"YIDDERY"?  The Jewish people? Or usury?  The -ery ending typically refers
to some kind of practice:  e.g. bribery. The anti-Jewish sentiment is
indisputable, but I don't think we can take this passage as unequivocal
evidence of Pound urging extermination of all Jewish people, the verb 'wipe
out' notwithstanding.  Would it be possible for you to post the typescript
in its entirety?
Tim Romano

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From: "Jonathan P. Gill" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 12:44 PM
Subject: pound in purgatory


> Dear Poundians:
>
> I feel as if I should apologize for having started this thread--perhaps I
> can make amends for it by bringing us back to Pound's own words and
> encouraging some close reading:
>
> "That is what the the jew is THERE to produce, war and more between goyim/
> UNTIL UNTIL oh UNTIL all the goyim simultaneously wake up to the cause of
> the trouble and determine to wipe out the root cause of the war, namely
> YIDDERY [...] WELLLL In the mean time, die brothers, die, make a Chewisch
> Yom Kippur, or other sort of sheenygogue festival."
>
> This passage is not from Doob's version of the broadcasts, which end in
> 1943, but from an undated typescript for a broadcast, probably late in the
> war.  These texts, which may or may not have been broadcast, are much more
> vituperative and clear in their calls for anti-Jewish action.
>
> Jonathan Gill
> Columbia University
>
>