How tragedy connects Pittsburgh and Rhodes, an entire world apart
David Shribman is the former executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of U.S. politics.One of those cities is Rhodes, on the Dodecanese island of the same name in the Greek corner of the Mediterranean. The other is Pittsburgh, one of the settings of the 18th-century struggle between the British and French for control of colonial North America.
The Jewish community of Rhodes is a rump, a vestige, an echo; the youngest member is 60. Its Pittsburgh analogue is vibrant; the storefronts of Squirrel Hill, the centre of Jewish life in the city, are inviting, with the sidewalks of Murray and Forbes avenues choked with strollers and shoppers. Just a minute’s walk from Tree of Life, the Jewish community teems with life.
In Rhodes, the magnitude of loss is greater, yet more remote. None of the Jews here witnessed the way first the men and then, a day later, the women and children, were assembled and marched to the port outside the city walls.
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