Xref: utzoo soc.culture.jewish:8452 news.misc:2174 news.groups:6383 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ulysses!gamma!sword!arrow!yba From: yba@arrow.bellcore.com (Mark Levine) Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,news.misc,news.groups Subject: Re: A Historical Point about Anti-Semitism Message-ID: <956@sword.bellcore.com> Date: 30 Nov 88 04:01:19 GMT References: <17452@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: news@sword.bellcore.com Reply-To: yba@arrow.UUCP (Mark Levine) Followup-To: news.misc, soc.culture.jewish Organization: Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ Lines: 19 In article <17452@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> skyler@violet.berkeley.edu () writes: >I think that the history of racism is fascinating--and that people >should be well aware of it. _The MIsmeasure of Man_ is good, but >about the only recent work on Lombroso--otherwise you have to read >the primaries. As concerns us Jews, the most entertaining serious work I have seen is Mark Twain's "Concerning the Jews", originally published in Harper's Monthly and reprinted with postscript ("The Jew as Soldier") in _In Defense of Harriet Shelley_, Vol. 16 of the complete works as published by Harper and Brothers, New York, somewhere at or after 1925. It is especially apropos, as Twain offers the opinion that Scotland would be the _only_ place on Earth where it would be safe to establish a Jewish state. As Brad seems pretty safe now, I think this topic can safely leave news.groups. Eleazor bar Shimon, once and future Carolingian yba@sabre.bellcore.com