Arnon Grunberg

Failure

Yet

Jeremy Bernstein in LRB on the 1930s:

"With what just happened in Pittsburgh it is easy to forget what things were like in the 1930s in America. I remember because I was growing up then. We used to listen to Father Coughlin on the radio. He said things like this:

‘Must the entire world go to war for 600,000 Jews in Germany who are neither American, nor French, nor English citizens, but citizens of Germany?’ ‘If Jews persist in supporting communism directly or indirectly, that will be regrettable. By their failure to use the press, the radio and the banking house, where they stand so prominently, to fight communism as vigorously as they do Nazism, the Jews invite the charge of being supporters of communism.’"

Read the article here.

The Muslims invite the charge of being supporters of terrorism. And so on and so on.

But it's not time to pack your suitcases yet.

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