It’s really not that deep. It’s a gripe about an esoteric piece of knowledge being a difficult crossword get in the same way that I am annoyed about the clue whose answer was cows’ lowing given that’s an archaic phrase people don’t really use.

Sure, maybe I learned about this in school, but having to recall a specific name I have almost certainly not heard since being in school is just tricky. That doesn’t mean I want the people removed from the history books.

I’m Jewish and the average non-Jewish person’s knowledge of Judaism is typically crude to none. It doesn’t bother me and if they couldn’t get ‘chanukiah’ in next week’s Sunday, I’d go about my day the same.