Volume 40, Number 12 · June 24, 1993
Is Anti-Semitism Dying Out?
By Arthur Hertzberg
WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anti-Semitism: The Longest Hatred
by Robert S. Wistrich
Pantheon, 341 pp., $25.00
The History of Anti-Semitism
by Léon Poliakov, translated by Richard Howard
Vanguard Press (out of print), Four Volumes pp.
The Satanizing of the Jews: Origin and Development of Mystical Anti-Semitism
by Joel Carmichael
Fromm International, 224 pp., $18.95
Foreigners Out': Xenophobia and Right-wing Violence in Germany
a Helsinki Watch Report
52 pp., $8.40 (paper)
Highlights from an Anti-Defamation League Survey on Anti-Semitism and Prejudice in America.
55 pp., $3.00 (paper)
What Do We Know About Black Anti-Semitism?
by Jennifer L. Golub
34 pp., $2.50 (paper)
Attitudes Toward Jews in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia (1991)
by Renae Cohen, by Jennifer L. Golub
44 pp., $2.50 (paper)
Attitudes Toward Jews in the Soviet Union: Public Opinion in Ten Republics
by Lev Gudkov, by Alex Levinson
all three pamphlets published by the American Jewish Committee., 80 pp., $10.00 (paper)
Is anti-Semitism reviving? Could it become again a major threat to Jews? Some of the closest observers of contemporary anti-Semitism disagree about these questions; they interpret quite differently such incidents as the killing of Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and the painting of swastikas on Jewish grave-stones in Germany. The chairman of the World Zionist Organization, Simcha Dinitz, for example, has suggested that the 40,000 Jews in Germany should pack their bags and move to Israel. The president of the Central Organization of Jews in Germany, Ignatz Bubis, disagrees, insisting that the neo-Nazis are small, marginal groups, and that Jews are safe in a country where hundreds of thousands of Germans have taken to the streets to express outrage on behalf of the minorities that have been attacked.
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