Word: antisemitisme
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Still, Hobson's book reflects formidable energy and grit, and it ends with an account of a genuine triumph: her stinging 1947 bestseller about antiSemitism, Gentleman's Agreement. Publishing it amounted to breaking a conspiracy of silence and shouting out one of middle-class America's nastiest...
Another gap in the record seems to have been designed to cosmeticize Polish antiSemitism. The country's once vast Jewish community is neglected, except for brief mentions that downgrade its economic and cultural contributions. Jews are usually characterized as moneylenders or itinerant musicians, although they were the bulwark of...
A vivid example is the longstanding effort to ease the plight of Russian Jewry, which predates even the Soviet era. In 1911, American Jewish organizations lobbied hard to abrogate a 79-year-old commercial treaty, largely in retaliation for the tsarist government's discrimination against, and repression of, Jews...
Skelton, the British translator of Cosima Wagner's Diaries, recounts all this with grace and a perhaps too benign indulgence. Since his story leaves off before Cosima's long widowhood (she died in 1930, at 93), he does not have to confront her in the decades when she...
Speaking in her new tongue, she cultivated influential writers: Robert Lowell, Alfred Kazin, Mary McCarthy, Randall Jarrell, W.H. Auden. Writing in a new manner, she searched out The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951. As Young-Bruehl observes, Arendt sustained throughout "500 dense, difficult pages a deep, agonized 'Ach...