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Originally Posted by Alan Kaufman
Dear FlorenceArt,
Lastly, as the son of a survivor, I have learned to regard two factors as indicative of the health of a society: it's relation to the Jew in its midst, and its relation to the book.
And in both these, we in America are dramatically failing. Anti-Semitism in this country and around the world, and most certainly in France, is rife. And the widespread abandonment of books, bookstores nnd book culture, in favor of machines lead me to believe that our culture, our society, our civilization itself are heading for a monumental catastrophe.
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How did we get to antisemitism now? Such responses are going to render me an antisemit, and I am a Jew living in Israel
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