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Joshua18

Opinion

"Anti-Semitism is a sewer"

May 10, 2010 11:26
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An excellent review by the great Harold Bloom of Anthony Julius' "Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England" appeared in the April 29th edition of the New York Times:

The Jewish Question: British Anti-Semitism

[Extract]

"Anthony Julius has written a strong, somber book on an appalling subject: the long squalor of Jew-hatred in a supposedly enlightened, humane, liberal society. My first, personal, reflection is to give thanks that my own father, who migrated from Odessa, Russia, to London, had the sense, after sojourning there, to continue on to New York City.