The Holocaust and White Privilege

I was surprised last fall when, during a day of equity training at my school, some of my white Jewish colleagues struggled with the idea thatthey wereprivileged. This was due to theirawareness of historical anti-semitism against Jews, especially the Holocaust, even though, in most cases, theirown immediatefamilies had not experienced this firsthand. As someone who is first generation German Jewish and did have immediate family who had experienced this, I was puzzled. My father, who fled Germa...