Those Who Forget the Past: The Question of Anti-Semitism
by By Rosenbaum, Ron (EDT) and Ozick, Cynthia (AFT)
Category: Religion , General

Something has changed. After the horrors of World War II, people everywhere believed   that it could never happen again, but today the evidence is unmistakable that anti-Semitism   is dramatically on the rise once more. The torching of European synagogues, suicide   terror in Israel, the relentless comparison of the Israelis to Nazis, the paranoid   post–September 11 Internet-bred conspiracy theories, the Holocaust-denial literature   spreading throughout the Arab world, the calumny and violence erupting on American   college campuses: Suddenly, a new anti-Semitism has become widespread, even acceptable   to some. In this chilling and important new book, Ron Rosenbaum, author of the highly   praised Explaining Hitler, brings together a collection of powerful essays about   the origin and nature of the new anti-Semitism. Paul Berman, Marie Brenner, David   Brooks, Harold Evans, Todd Gitlin, Jeffrey Goldberg, Bernard Lewis, David Mamet,   Amos Oz, Cynthia Ozick, Frank Rich, Jonathan Rosen, Edward Said, Judith Shulevitz,   Lawrence Summers, Jeffrey Toobin, and Robert Wistrich are among the distinguished   writers and intellectuals who grapple with painful questions: Why now? What is—or   isn’t—new? Is a second Holocaust possible, this time in the Middle East? How does   anti-Semitism differ from anti-Zionism? These are issues too dangerous to ignore,   too pressing to deny. Those Who Forget the Past is an essential volume for understanding   the new bigotry of the twenty-first century.