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Article: The world hates Jews.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture, and Public Life)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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"The world hates the Jews. The world has always and will continue to do so." So says David Mamet in a new book from Schocken, The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred, and the Jews. Mamet is a writer of distinction and has a Pulitzer Prize among his credits. His plays include Glengarry Glen Ross and he has authored several novels, as well as books on being Jewish. His latest book is written with a very definite audience in mind:
To the wicked son who asks "What does all this
mean to you. To the Jews who, in the sixties,
envied the Black Power Movement; who, in the
nineties, envied the Palestinians; who weep at
Exodus but jeer at the Israeli ...