Those Who Forget the Past (66 page)

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The New York Times Magazine,
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Paul Berman,
The Forward,
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David Brooks,
The Weekly Standard,
February 2, 2003

Barbara Amiel,
The Telegraph,
December 17, 2002

Harold Evans, The Index Lecture (Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival), June 2, 2002

Lawrence Summers, Address at Memorial Church, Harvard University, September 17, 2002

Berel Lang (1),
Midstream,
May/June 2003

Robert S. Wistrich, The National Interest, Summer 2003

Berel Lang (2), Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Annual Report, 1999

Gabriel Schoenfeld,
Commentary,
June 2002

Judea Pearl,
The Wall Street Journal,
February 20, 2003

Thane Rosenbaum,
Tikkun,
November/December 2002

Samuel G. Freedman,
Salon.com
, June 12, 2002

Tom Gross (1),
National Review Online,
May 13, 2002

Dr. David Zangen,
Ma'ariv,
November 8, 2002

Tom Gross (2), Weblist, August 5, 2002

Philip Roth, from
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Ron Rosenbaum,
The New York Observer,
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Leon Wieseltier,
The New Republic,
May 27, 2002

Ruth R. Wisse,
Commentary,
October 2002

Marie Brenner,
Vanity
Fair,
June 2003

Melanie Phillips,
The Spectator,
March 22, 2003

Dr. Laurie Zoloth,
aish.com
, May 9, 2002

Todd Gitlin,
motherjones.com
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Eli Muller,
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, March 1, 2003

Mark Strauss,
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Barry Oringer, Pacific News Service, May 9, 2002

Fiamma Nirenstein, talk at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Conference on “Old Demons, New Debates: Anti-Semitism in the West,” May 11–14, 2003

Nat Hentoff,
The Village Voice,
June 22, 2001

Peter J. Boyer,
The New Yorker,
September 15, 2003

Frank Rich,
The New York Times,
September 21, 2003

Simon Schama, talk at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Conference on “Old Demons, New Debates: Anti-Semitism in the West,” May 11–14, 2003

Joshua Muravchik,
Commentary,
September 1, 2003

Robert Jan van Pelt,
The Case for Auschwitz
:
Evidence from the
Irving Trial,
Indiana University Press, 2002

Judith Shulevitz,
Slate.com
, January 24, 2000

Jeffrey Toobin,
The New Yorker,
January 27, 2003

Martin Peretz,
The New Republic,
April 29, 2002

Jonathan Freedland, first published in
A New Anti-Semitism?:
Debating Judeophobia in 21
^st
-Century Britain, Profile Books, October 2003

Judith Butler,
London Review of Books
, August 21, 2003

David Mamet,
The Forward,
December 27, 2002

Philip Greenspun, http://
www.philip.greenspun.com

Shalom Lappin,
Dissent,
Spring 2003

Edward Said,
Al-Ahram Weekly
(online), June 25–July 1, 1998 Daniel Gordis,
Midstream,
May/June 2003

Jeffrey Goldberg,
The New Yorker,
October 8, 2001

Bernard Lewis (1),
The Middle East Quarterly,
June 1998

Bernard Lewis (2),
The Middle East Quarterly,
September 1998 and December 1998

Tariq Ramadan, from
Western Muslims and the Future of Islam,
Oxford University Press, October 2003

Amos Oz,
The Nation,
April 22, 2002

Cynthia Ozick, written for this volume, Sept.–Oct. 2003

PERMISSION CREDITS

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

Al-ahram:
“A Desolation, and They Called It Peace” by Edward Said (June 25–July, 1998, issue #383). Reprinted by permission of
Al-ahram
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Barbara Amiel: “Islamists Overplay Their Hand” by Barbara Amiel (
The
Telegraph,
December 17, 2001). Copyright © 2001 by Barbara Amiel. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Paul Berman: “Something's Changed” by Paul Berman. This article was originally published in the
The Forward.
Reprinted by permission of the author.

Peter J. Boyer: “The Jesus War” by Peter J. Boyer (
The
New Yorker,
September 15, 2003), copyright © 2003 by Peter J. Boyer. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Judith Butler: “The Charge of Anti-Semitism: Jews, Israel, and the Risks of Public Critique” by Judith Butler (
London
Review
of Books,
August 21, 2003). Reprinted by permission of the author.

Commentary:
“Israel and the Anti-Semites” by Gabriel Schoenfeld (
Commentary,
June 2002). Reprinted by permission of
Commentary
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Harry Evans & Associates: Speech entitled “Hay-on-Wye Speech” by Harry Evans. Reprinted by permission of Harry Evans.

Foreign Policy:
“Antiglobalism's Jewish Problem” by Mark Strauss. Reprinted by permission of
Foreign Policy
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Samuel G. Freedman: “Don't Look Away” by Samuel G. Freedman (
Salon.com
, June 12, 2002). Copyright © 2002 by Samuel G. Freedman. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Philip Greenspun: “Israel,” by Philip Greenspun, which appeared in February 2003 on http://
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Nat Hentoff: “Who Did Kill Christ?” by Nat Hentoff (
Village
Voice,
June 22, 2001), copyright © 2001 by Nat Hentoff. Reprinted by permission of the author.

International Creative Management, Inc.: “France's Scarlet Letter” by Marie Brenner (
Vanity
Fair,
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The
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Indiana University Press: Excerpts from THE CASE FOR AUSCHWITZ: EVIDENCE FROM THE IRVING TRIAL by Robert Jan van Pelt, copyright © 2002 by Robert Jan van Pelt. Reprinted by permission of Indiana University Press.

Shalom Lappin: “Israel and the New Anti-Semitism” by Shalom Lappin (
Dissent
magazine, Spring 2003). Reprinted by permission of the author.

Ma'ariv: “Seven Lies About Jenin” by Dr. David Z. Langen. Reprinted by permission of
Ma'ariv
and the author.

Middle East Quarterly:
“Muslim Anti-Semitism” by Bernard Lewis (
Middle
East Quarterly,
June 1998), letter to the editor by Abdelaleem El-Abyad first published as “Muslim Anti-Semitism?” (
Middle
East Quarterly,
September 1998) and “Violence in Lebanon” (
Middle
East Quarterly,
December 1998). All material reprinted by permission of
Middle East Quarterly.

Midstream magazine: “The ‘the' in ‘the Jews' ” by Berel Lang (Midstream, May/June, 2003) and “Take Off That Mask” by Daniel Gordis (
Midstream,
May/June 2003). Reprinted by permission of
Midstream
magazine.

Mother Jones:
“The Rough Beast Returns” by Todd Gitlin (
Mother
Jones,
June 17, 2002), copyright © 2002 by Foundation for National Progress. Reprinted by permission from motherjones. com.

Joshua Muravchik and
Commentary:
“The Neoconservative Cabal” by Joshua Muravchik (
Commentary,
September 2003). Reprinted by permission of the author and
Commentary
magazine.

The National Interest: “The Old-New Anti-Semitism” by Robert S. Wistrich (
The
National Interest,
Summer 2003). Reprinted by permission of
The National Interest.

The New Republic:
“Against Ethnic Panic: Hitler Is Dead” by Leon Wieseltier (
The
New Republic,
May 27, 2002), copyright © 2002 by The New Republic, LLC; “The Poet and the Murderer” by Martin Peretz (
The
New Republic,
April 29, 2002), copyright © 2002 by The New Republic, LLC. Reprinted by permission of
The New Republic.

The New York Times:
“The Greatest Story Ever Sold” by Frank Rich (
The
New York Times,
September 21, 2003), copyright © 2003 by The New York Times Co. Reprinted by permission of
The
New York Times
.

Fiamma Nirenstein: “How I Became an Unconscious Fascist” by Fiamma Nirenstein, first given as a speech at the YIVO Institute. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Barry Oringer: “Terrorism Chic” by Barry Oringer (Pacific News Service, May 9, 2002). Reprinted by permission of the author.

Oxford University Press, Inc.: Excerpt from WESTERN MUSLIMS AND THE FUTURE OF ISLAM by Tariq Ramadan, copyright © 2003 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc.

Amos Oz: “Two Middle East Wars” by Amos Oz (
The
Nation,
April 22, 2002), copyright © 2002 by Amos Oz. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Profile Books: “Is Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism?” by Jonathan Freedland, which first appeared in
A New Antisemitism? DebatingJudaeo-phobia in twenty-first-century Britain,
edited by Paul Iganski and Barry Kosmin. Reprinted by permission of Profile Books.

Simon Schama: Simon Schama's May 11, 2003 YIVO Institute address on anti-Semitism and the Internet, copyright © 2003 by Simon Schama. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Judith Shulevitz: “Evolutionary Psychology's Anti-Semite” by Judith Shulevitz (Slate/Culturebox, January 24, 2000). Reprinted by permission of the author.

Simon and Schuster Adult Publishing Group: Excerpt from OPERATION SHYLOCK by Philip Roth, copyright © 1993 by Philip Roth. Reprinted by permission of Simon and Schuster Adult Publishing Group.

The Spectator:
“The New Anti-Semitism” by Melanie Phillips (
The
Spectator,
March 22, 2003). Reprinted by permission of The Spectator (1828) Ltd.

Lawrence Summers: Lawrence Summers's September 17, 2002, address to the Harvard community. Used by permission of Lawrence Summers.

Tikkun:
“Danny Pearl” by Thane Rosenbaum (
Tikkun
17(6), Nov./ Dec., 2002, pp. 68, 76). Reprinted by permission from
Tikkun:
A Bimonthly Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture & Society,
www.tikkun.org
.

Jeffrey Toobin: “Speechless: Free Expression and Civility Clash at Harvard” by Jeffrey Toobin (
The
New
Yorker,
January 27, 2003). Reprinted by permission of the author.

United Media: “Jeningrad” and “The Massacre That Never Was” by Thomas Gross from “National Review Online,” copyright © NRO/Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service. Reprinted by permission of the author and United Media.

The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism: “Self-Description and the Anti-Semite: Denying Privileged Access” by Berel Lang (Annual Report. The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, 1999, pp. 21–23), copyright © 1999 by Berel Lang. Reprinted by permission.

The Wall Street Journal:
“This Tide of Madness” by Judea Pearl (
The
Wall Street Journal,
February 20, 2003), copyright © 2003 by Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission.

The Weekly Standard:
“It's Back” by David Brooks (
The
Weekly
Standard,
February 2, 2003). Reprinted by permission of
The
Weekly Standard.

Ruth R. Wisse and
Commentary:
“On Ignoring Anti-Semitism” by Ruth R. Wisse (
Commentary,
October 2002). Reprinted by permission of the author and
Commentary.

The Wylie Agency, Inc.: “If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem: The Power of Blunt Nostalgia” by David Mamet, copyright © 2002 by David Mamet; “The Uncomfortable Question of Anti-Semitism” by Jonathan Rosen, copyright © 2001 by Jonathan Rosen. Reprinted by permission of The Wylie Agency, Inc.

Yale Daily News:
“Necessary Evils” by Eli Muller (
Yale
Daily News,
February 28, 2003). Reprinted by permission of
Yale Daily
News.

Dr. Laurie Zoloth: Dr. Laurie Zoloth's e-mail to San Francisco State University. Reprinted by permission of the author.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The idea for this book emerged from my conversations with my exceedingly wise friend Jonathan Rosen; the reality of it from the encouragement and insights of my singularly brainy and empathetic editor, David Ebershoff. I'm grateful as well for the strong support of Dan Menaker and Gina Centrello at Random House.

Valuable ideas for thinking about the subject and structure of the book were contributed by my thoughtful comrade David Samuels. And by my literary agent, Kathy Robbins, who offered her usual superb advice and moral support throughout the process—I am constantly amazed by her wisdom and clarity.

I was especially fortunate in having the counsel of Veronica Windholz, the gifted and dedicated senior copy editor at Random House. Also at Random House, I'm grateful for the advice and counsel of Laura Goldin and Amelia Zaleman, and for the enthusiasm of Lynne Martin. Thanks also to Kapo Ng for his elegant jacket design and to Dominique Troiano, David Ebershoff 's assistant, for all the work she put in on the project.

A special word of undying gratitude to Cynthia Ozick, a writer I've always looked up to, for agreeing to write her remarkably eloquent and impassioned Afterword for this book.

And to all the contributors herein, my thanks for allowing me to include your thought-provoking work in this book.

My conversations with Craig S. Karpel, Tom Gross, Jeffrey Goldberg, Errol Morris, Berel Lang, Neal Kozodoy, Stanley Mieses, Paul Berman, Gabriel Schoenfeld, Nat Hentoff, Daniel Kunitz, Thane Rosenbaum, Rabbi Adam Mintz of Lincoln Square Synagogue, to name a few, were important in helping to clarify some of my ideas, and alerting me to essays I wanted to include.

I also owe a lot to the vigilance of webloggers such as Glenn Reynolds, Meryl Yourish, David Artemiw, Jeff Jarvis, Roger Simon, and, of course, Zachary and Mo of “Exposing the Exposer” (to name a few) in helping me keep in constant touch with the situation and the issues.

There are so many others who deserve credit for many forms of support that made it possible for me to put together a seven-hundred-page book:

Peter Kaplan and Arthur Carter at
The New York Observer
gave me the space and freedom to explore my ideas on this subject. Petra Bartosiewiecz, who was my editor there through much of this period, also came up with important suggestions for additions to this book. My current editor, Mario Russo, and all my other colleagues at the paper have my thanks as well.

All the smart people at Kathy Robbins's office—Kate Rizzo, Sandy Bontemps Hodgman, Teri Tobias, Diane Bijou, Sophie Landres, Sarah D'Imperio, and David Halpern—have played important roles in various capacities in helping put this book together.

Liz Groden of
City-Secretarial.com
has been indispensable, not just in assembling the manuscript but in Web-based research as well. Additional important research help came from Lisa Singh.

Among the many friends and colleagues who have been supportive in various ways while I was putting this together, I'd like to thank Betsy Carter, Gary Hoenig, Virginia Heffernan, Dr. Joseph Fetto, Faye Beckerman, Holly Staver, Noah Kimerling, Richard Horowitz, Sheldon Piekny, Deb Friedman, Fred Kaplan, Eve Babitz, Dora Steinberg, Mark Steinberg, Lauren Thierry, Jim Watkins, Helen Whitney, Jonathan Karp, Jonathan Schwartz, Drs. Paul and Marvin Belsky, Marie Brenner, Naomi Wax, Laura Frost, Daniel Ahn, Susan Kamil, Dan Kornstein, and David Livingstone.

And, as always, my wisest and most knowing counselor has been my sister, Ruth Rosenbaum.

My deepest apologies to those deserving people I've inadvertently left out: it's the nightmare of doing Acknowledgments; I'm sure a dozen more names will occur to me after this goes to press, but please accept my thanks and my chagrin.