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Originally Posted by ardeegee

One of the most repulsive, offensive things I've read in a long time.

Yes. Mostly because he's also written on the experience of being in concentration camps: (or perhaps not on that experience directly, but he seems to be a pretty rabid little fellow looking for his "identity" (Never mind that he's actively creating an identity in constantly looking for a new one. I really wish more people would figure that out.)
He's even insinuating we Europeans (Communists? I can't quite tell, but there seems to be some sort of implied threat in his writing..) are out to get American Publishers:

For instance, in a recent article, Barnaull Nourrey, CEO of Hachette Livre, the French book publishing conglomerate that owns a big piece of American book publishing, including Time Warner Books (Random House and its affiliates is owned by Bertelsmann, the German publishing giant—Europeans now control most of American publishing)

Kaufman's restless quest for Jewish identity has taken him from the frontlines of the Israeli-Arab conflict to the Dachau Concentration Camp; from the streets of New York to the San Francisco underground. The Bronx-born son of a Holocaust survivor as well as an Israeli army veteran, Kaufman reports from the visceral core of the modern Jewish experience.
Kaufman has taught in the graduate and undergraduate schools of the Academy of Art University and in writing workshops in San Francisco. His work has appeared in Salon, The Los Angeles Times, Partisan Review, Tel Aviv Review, San Francisco Examiner, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Kaufman himself has been widely anthologized, most recently in "Nothing Makes You Free: Writings From Descendants of Holocaust Survivors (TimeBeing Books)" (WW Norton) and Blood To Remember:American Poets On The Holocaust.
Kaufman is a member of PEN American Center and is listed in the Europa Biographical Reference Series.

Personally, I hope the Anti-Defamation League goes after him, as the sentence preceding the one Steve quoted is even more distasteful:

All physical books must go up the chimney stack. Such was the methodology of the SS who forced their prisoners to run naked races round and round the barracks yard in the Polish winter, a race that no one was meant to win.

Really, everyone should buy this guy's books. They're bound to be at least as sensitive to holocaust survivers' sensibilities as this statement is.