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Lynn Bernstein: [reading Abraham's farewell letter written before his capture by The Visitors] "My dear family: It's painful knowing that I'll not see your faces anymore. But I must take this stand for what I know is right. You may think that an old man wouldn't be afraid to die, but this old man is very frightened. I'm hoping that I'll find a little of your mother's dignity and strength. So far, I'm as frightened as a child who fears the dark. But we must fight the darkness that is threatening to engulf us. Each of us must be a ray of hope and do our part and join with the others till we've become a blinding light, triumphant over darkness. Until that task is accomplished, life will have no meaning. More than anything, you must remember which side you're on and fight for it. You mother and I will march beside you, holding hands again. We'll sing your song of victory. You'll feel us in your hearts. Our spirit..." Stanley Bernstein: "Our spirits will be with you always. And our love." We have to help, or else we won't have learned a thing.
Abraham Bernstein’s farewell letter, V (V: The Original Miniseries).
I've been saddened over the lack of admirable Jewish characters in tv and movies, then I remembered Abraham Bernstein from V (the original 1983 miniseries, not the lackluster remake). [General SPOILERS below.]
He was a Holocaust survivor, who, in observing the interactions with the alien visitors, was fearful that history would be repeating itself, even as his own son constantly tried to reassure him. As events progress, however, the Visitors begin to show an agenda against human scientists and the like. Take this scene:
[Stanley Bernstein discovers that his father, Abraham, hid the Maxwells in their pool house]
Stanley Bernstein: I really don't believe you brought them here.
Abraham Bernstein: They have nowhere to go. Their house is being watched now.
Stanley: And so is ours! By Daniel! Tell them that we're sorry...
Abraham: Stanley, you don't understand. They have to stay. They need a place to hide!
Stanley: And why is that?
Abraham: Because the father is a scientist -
Stanley: - and therefore suspect! And a fugitive, I take it, which would make them doubly dangerous.
Abraham: They have to stay.
Stanley: And I'm telling you to get them out, before I...
Abraham: I won't.
Stanley: Then I will!
Abraham: [shouts] NO, YOU WON'T! [approaches him] We had to put you in a suitcase. In a suitcase! You were eight months old. That's how we smuggled you out.
Stanley: I know the story!
Abraham: No, you don't! You don't. Your mother, aluv shalom...your mother didn't have a heart attack in the boxcar. She made it with me, to the camp. I can still see her, standing naked in the freezing cold. Her beautiful black hair was gone. They'd shaved her head. I can still see her waving to me, as they marched her off with the others to the showers - the showers with no water. Perhaps, if somebody had given us a place to hide...don't you see, Stanley? They have to stay. Or else, we haven't learned a thing!
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It's been a while since I watched this miniseries. Maybe I should look at it again. Of course, this was from 30 years ago... Why can't I think of any recent awesome Jewish characters?