Friday, April 20, 2018

FIRST THEY CAME FOR THEM,THEN THEY CAME FOR ME, EVENTUALLY THEY WILL COME FOR YOU!

Jonathan Weisman, (((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2018):
Are we in a momentary blip of resurgent intolerance, a last gasp of ethnonationalism that will recede to the inevitable advance of liberal internationalism? Or will historians look back at the post-World War II era as the exception to a human history of warring tribes?
Id. at 199-200.
     'Life is political,' Timothy Snyder writes, 'not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do.'
     The world is watching.
Id. at 224.

Steven J. Zipperstein, Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History (New York: Liveright, 2018):
T'he point about the melting pot,' wrote Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the pathbreaking 1963 study, Beyond the Melting Pot, 'is that id did not happen.'
Id. at 205, citations omitted.