Virus with no vaccine: Rabbi Julia Neuberger explores a resurgent hatred of Jews
Since anti-Semitism runs deeper and more perversely than most religious prejudice, and with catastrophic results, recent signs of its resurgence have spurred Rabbi Julia Neuberger to write this eclectic book
The late Fr Andrew Greeley, an American academic and popular novelist, used to say that anti-Catholicism was the anti-Semitism of American intellectuals, which seems a fairly accurate take on the secularism that dominates American academic life. But it also suggests a false parity of prejudice: to anti-Semites, Jews remain Jews, whatever their religious convictions. The ardent Catholicism of Simone Weil and Irène Némirovsky did nothing to save them from the Nazis.
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