Those Who Forget the Past: The Question of Anti-Semitism

✍ Scribed by Rosenbaum, Ron

• Book ID: 108648250
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 676 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307432810

✦ Synopsis

**Something has changed.
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After the horrors of World War II, people everywhere believed that it could never happen again, but today the evidence is unmistakable that anti-Semitism is dramatically on the rise once more. The torching of European synagogues, suicide terror in Israel, the relentless comparison of the Israelis to Nazis, the paranoid post--September 11 Internet-bred conspiracy theories, the Holocaust-denial literature spreading throughout the Arab world, the calumny and violence erupting on American college campuses: Suddenly, a new anti-Semitism has become widespread, even acceptable to some.

In this chilling and important new book, Ron Rosenbaum, author of the highly praisedExplaining Hitler, brings together a collection of powerful essays about the origin and nature of the new anti-Semitism. Paul Berman, Marie Brenner, David Brooks, Harold Evans, Todd Gitlin, Jeffrey Goldberg, Bernard Lewis, David Mamet, Amos Oz, Cynthia Ozick, Frank...