HEY I CAN’T REALLY PUT INTO WORDS HOW FUCKING IMPORTANT THIS IS SO LET ME JUST SAY THINKING ABOUT THIS MADE ME CRY SOME.
B.J. TOOK ON HIS MOTHER’S NAME, THE NAME OF A POLISH JEW, TO DISTANCE HIMSELF FROM AN ABUSIVE BIGOT OF A FATHER AND SLAUGHTER NAZIS.
The newest game in the series digs deep in Blazkowicz’s past, particularly his relationship with his parents. His father was an abusive bigot who married his Jewish mother for a connection to her family’s business.
Another character in the game refers to him as “the half-breed child of a salesman and a Polish Jew,” which means his enemies are very much aware of his lineage.
“To speak of descent — matrilineal or patrilineal — itself implies a remarkable assumption: That Jewishness can be a matter of descent, rather than belief; that the foundation of Jewish identity is genealogy rather than theology,” Meir Soloveichik wrote in the Rohr Chabad House at Stanford. “In Jewish chosenness, spiritual identity is inextricably bound up with familial identity. One born to Jewish parents is a Jew, a member of God’s covenant, no matter the extent to which one conforms to the tenets of the Tora or accepts Jewish dogma. In this respect Judaism differs fundamentally from Christianity, in which participation is essentially a matter of faith, rather than descent.”
Yes, B.J. Blazkowicz is Jewish
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