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Well I gues it’s Jewish day today, but what triggered this post was one more proclamation by an anti-Israel Jew objecting to concern about anti semitism by saying, “Jews in America have never been more powerful and influential” in one form or another.

Gee Einstein, no kidding. No one’s disputing that. But Jews in America are not the only Jews inthe world. Must your universalism deny you any fellow feeling if it makes you the least bit uncomfortable. not only are not your brother’s keeper, you won’t acknowledge you have any brothers. You’re so universal, so nonidentified with any single group, you’re no one at all.

It sure must feel better that way doesn’t it, only worrying about yourself and finding you have nothing to worry about? Hey then, no worrries about Jews in France where busses of Jewish schoolchildren are regularly attacked by anti-semitic cowards, no worries about Jews in Israel attempting to live everyday with exterminationist threats hanging over them, when suicide bombers are not blowing up their cafes.

Guys, I congratulate you: it makes life so much easier to be a Jew and say there’s nothing for Jews to worry about because you are doing okay. Mazel Tov.

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book cover BUY The Shakespeare Wars
Random House, September 2006


Electrifying. A spectacular book. —Cynthia Ozick


…a thrilling personal confrontation…The Shakespeare Wars comes to us in waves of new revelations —Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate


Acclaimed journalist Ron Rosenbaum wrestles with the weightiest issues of Shakespeare studies in a down-to-earth manner that readers will applaud. —Publisher’s Weekly


Cultural journalism of the highest order. —Kirkus Reviews


Timely not least for the economy and clarity with which he outlines the casus belli…with Rosenbaum’s dispatches we now have a better sense of what the fuss is about. —John Sutherland, The Financial Times

book cover BUY Explaining Hitler
A remarkable journey by one of the most original journalists and writers of our time. —David Remnick A work of importance and fascination. —George Steiner, the [U.K.] Observer A provacative work of cultural history that is as compelling as it is thoughtful, as readable as it is smart..Mr. Rosenbaum has made an important contribution to our understanding not just of Hitler, but of the cultural processes by which we try to come to terms with history as well… He has written an exciting, lucid book. —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Intriguing, thought provoking and intelligent. —Ian Kershaw in The Guardian [U.k.] Brilliant…restlessly probing and deeply intelligent. —Lance Morrow, Time In Explaining Hitler, profound historical questions spring urgently and hauntingly to life. —Sam Tanenhaus Cultural criticism served up as riveting narrative history —Marc Fisher The Washington Post
book cover BUY The Secret Parts of Fortune
Ron Rosenbaum is one of the great masters of the metaphysical detective story, a nonfiction writer in the spirit of Borges, Nabokov and Poe. —Errol Morris (director of The Fog of War) Few journalists inspire the kind of cult following that Rosenbaum has —Scott McLemee Newsday I plan on hanging Ron Rosenbaum’s ‘marriage proposal’ [column] in a prominent place. Should my husband begin to take me for granted, he will be reminded that I am not without options. —Rosanne Cash You made me look like a f_____g lunatic. —Oliver Stone ALSO AVAILABLE (an anthology of others’ work): Those Who Forget the Past: The Question of Anti-Semitism Bi-weekly Spectator columnist at Slate

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