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Dangerous cleavages between ex-servicemen and civilians, white and black, Jew and gentile, business and labor...
...Guide far the Bedevilled Author Hecht (Erik Dorn, Gargoyles, Afternoons in Chicago) has followed Tante Chasha's advice. It is one of the most ferocious attacks on anti-Semitism ever written-and the first to be written by a Jew of Ben Hecht's literary conspicuousness...
...Pogroms, Mr. Hecht? But a few years ago a "famous lady" buttonholed Ben, begged him to tell her what it was about Jews that made people persecute them. "Only a Jew can speak on this subject," she explained. Ben was shocked. He had never imagined that the famous lady thought of him as a Jew. Suddenly he became race conscious, began to study Jewish history, resolved to write a book. "My mission was to write of Jews with love and of their enemies with hatred...
Last fortnight reviewers were hectically disagreeing over Author Hecht's diatribe. Said New York Post Reviewer Marvin Berger: "Welcome back into the lodge, Ben. Let's forgive and forget A Jew in Love." Said New York Times Reviewer John Chamberlain: "[A Guide for the Bedevilled] is a sort of antiSemitism, turned inside...
...Hecht's most controversial novel, A Jew in Love (TIME, Jan. 26, 1931), was roundly denounced as anti-Semitic by many readers...