Hitchens: If you think the tone is supremacist it is your problem, or among
your many problems.

June 13, 2006, part of an e-mail exchange:

Hello Mr. HITCHENS:

RePorterNoteBook: Do you still stand by the supremacist attitude and tone of
this book review you wrote?

Hitchens: If you think the tone is supremacist it is your problem, or among
your many problems.

START:
Excerpt: The worst anti-Semites did not so much hate the observant and docile
shtetl types; they didn't really even hate the moneychangers they couldn't do
without: They hated and feared the skeptical, scientific, artistic, secular,
intellectual and discontented Jews whose names we all know. Of this virus, even
if one can doubt that it's really in the genes, one could be proud to be a
carrier. And a half-bottle of the right stuff, carefully deployed, can be as
potent as a Magnum.
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Suddenly Jewish: Jews Raised as Gentiles Discover Their Jewish Roots
By Barbara Kessel
Brandeis University, 127 pages, $19.95.
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http://www.forward.com/issues/2001/01.01.26/arts1.html

The Part-Jewish Question: Double the Pleasure or Twice the Pain?
Of 'Semi-Semites' and Those Who Fear Them
By CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
January 2001
According to the laws of Moses, the Law of Return, Israel's civil code and the
Nuremburg Laws, I am a Jew. This definition, however, is both too exhaustive and
not exhaustive enough. I have many friends who, unlike me, were raised in Jewish
homes, but who only derive the Mosaic from the paternal side; this would exclude
them from the tribe of Moses according to Israel's civil code (absent the
conversion of the mother) but would not exempt them from the vengeance of the
Nuremburg code. I'm fairly globalized: My father was Anglo-Celtic; my first wife
is Greek; my second wife's family came from Odessa or thereabouts, and I have a
godchild in Zimbabwe. In practical terms, you are reading a guide for the
perplexed, written by an anti-Zionist atheist of whose progeny one is wholly
Jewish while two are Anglo-Cypriot. I had no say in the making of these rules
and know of no rational way to observe them.
Recent advances in DNA testing have either simplified or complicated the
claims of holy books and founding texts. A riveting recent essay in Commentary
described the results of a match-up between the genetic database of the Kohanim
- those whose Jewish ancestry is supposedly the strongest and best-attested -
and that of a "lost tribe" in Namibia that has long claimed Jewish descent. The
fit was amazingly close. So it is with other groups in the Asian diaspora, many
of whose folk stories had been thought to be merely legendary. It also turns out
that there is a close DNA affinity between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs; a
finding that, if it does not confirm Freud's weird speculations in "Moses and
Monotheism," at least reinforces his theory of the narcissism of the small
difference. How long before we can codify Khazar DNA and find out if Koestler
was right or if the Ashkenazim have any genetic claim to Gaza? (The learned
author of the Commentary article, eventually
concluded that enough was enough already, and that better uses could be found
for the research money than the infinite theoretical expansion of the prolific
seed of Abraham.)
My maternal grandmother was the same way. Born of a Blumenthal-Levin union
that originated in a departure from Breslau (now Wroclaw) to Liverpool in the
late 19th century, she wanted her first grandson to be an assimilated English
gentleman. (You may judge for yourself how well this aspiration succeeded). But
she didn't want the story to end with her, either, and when my mother had died
and my brother had chosen a Jewish bride and my father was dying, she came right
out with it. "I was so happy," said this old lady of no great education or, I
regret to say, intuitive intelligence, "so happy to see you boys both had the
Jewish brains." And now I have a pile of old German- and Polish-Jewish birth and
marriage certificates in a drawer (plus my own marriage certificate from the
great Rabbi Bob Goldburg, who had also officiated at Arthur Miller and Marilyn
Monroe's wedding) and, if I'm traveling in some near-"Judenrein" spot such as
Istanbul or Asmara or Sarajevo or Salonika
or Damascus, I do what I never normally do and pay a visit to the temple.
What am I looking for? That is the question which both these books attempt to
answer. "The Half-Jewish Book" is in one way relentlessly joking and upbeat and
show-business-minded - the perfect Chanukah stocking-stuffer. Maybe you knew,
but I thought "Who Knew?" as the parade of semi-Semitic celebrities went by.
Gwyneth Paltrow? (I know one should always mentally replace the "w" with the "v"
in this culture, but still.) Winona LaDuke? (She "went with" her Native American
paternal side.) Between all the lines, however, is a serious argument that
partial or quasi-Jewishness is both inevitable and beneficial, and that those
who fret about dilution or "marrying out" are either too pessimistic or too
tribal, or both. Interest declared: The authors cite with approbation my essay
"On Not Knowing the Half of It," adding that my book title "Prepared for the
Worst" is "distinctly Jewish-sounding," a compliment I think it would be
churlish to decline.
Here's what we would all like to know about the Lemba - which is the name of
that lost tribe in Namibia - but are slightly reluctant to ask. Did members of
the Lemba minority furnish the majority of Southwest Africa's political
revolutionaries, freelance intellectuals, doctors, comedians, union-organizers
and lawyers? (Also, how did they fare when the region was under the control of
German colonialists and ethnologists?) Or did the Lemba keep within their ghetto
walls, muttering about the Second Temple and the tendency of their mutinous
young people to marry Ovambo or Herero shvartzes? I ask a serious question in a
flippant way; the Jews of Europe did not really come into their own until the
French Revolution began to emancipate them both from Christian persecution and
from their own theocracy. The fate of the Jewish genius was often that of
Spinoza, whose name we are lucky to know given the attempt by his "own" people
to silence him.
This difference of emphasis can be seen in Barbara Kessel's book, which is
really a series of first-person narratives and discoveries, strongly inflected
by the Shoah and tending to the idea of a recovered identity. This is a
necessary task in one way; many among the Nazi-created Diaspora were of the
especially hated "mixed race" variety; many were too fearful to mention their
origins ever again; many were raised as "gentiles" by the non-Jews who "saved"
them. But is it a vital task?
Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, speaks in
these pages of the Jewish "souls" lost in Poland by the erasure, not just of
people, but of family history and awareness. For these, and for their heirs,
there should obviously be an ingathering. And it will be endlessly fascinating;
I was able to tell Michael Dobbs of The Washington Post that the Czech embassy
had informed Madeleine Albright of the true situation of her family several
months before the date she gave as the date of her "discovery": In other words,
I know for a certainty that she was lying, but I still have no idea why. From
Ms. Kessel I learned that there is a Society for Crypto-Judaic studies, tracing
the arcane world of the Sephardic converso, and realized that it would be more
extraordinary if there were not such a body. Ms. Kessel's own view, which she
puts in the mouth of one interviewee, is that America needs a more exact and
principled idea of "identity," not a vague and
mushy denial of the particularism with which it is only human to be
preoccupied.
But this principle would have to be just as true for Latvians and Iroquois,
and one has to ask whether Jews who think it kosher to "think with the blood"
are happy when other groups do the same. The fact, of course, is that they (we)
are not easy with this thought. But then the fact also is that Jews are
matrilineal for a reason; they know that ethnic purity is a fantasy, and they
must also suspect that inbreeding can be unwholesome. (One English friend of
mine only discovered his "roots" when his firstborn had Tay-Sachs disease.) So
this is what I'm vaguely seeking when I visit the far-flung "shul" or obscure
half-obliterated Jewish quarter: the leaven in the dough. Societies that have
expelled or ostracized the Jews have historically been condemned to all the
consequences of their own stupidity and cruelty. But one element in the litany
of accusations against Jews - that they are rootless cosmopolitans - deserves
not to be repudiated. The worst anti-Semites did not so
much hate the observant and docile shtetl types; they didn't really even hate
the moneychangers they couldn't do without: They hated and feared the skeptical,
scientific, artistic, secular, intellectual and discontented Jews whose names we
all know. Of this virus, even if one can doubt that it's really in the genes,
one could be proud to be a carrier. And a half-bottle of the right stuff,
carefully deployed, can be as potent as a Magnum.

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Lectures on the Holocaust: Controversial Issues Cross-Examined
by Germar Rudolf
(This is the last book he wrote, before Germar Rudolf went to jail for
Holocaust Revisionism.)
Softcover, 560 pages
ISBN: 1591480019
Stock Number: 0302
An exemplary work of Holocaust revisionism, ideal both for beginners and
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Compiled by the imprisoned German scientist and publisher Germar Rudolf, the
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of an exchange between knowledgeable but open-minded lecturers, and skeptical
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"Frequently Asked Questions" handbook forthrightly addresses the most familiar
and pertinent arguments against the revisionist view.
With many photos, hundreds of source references and a large bibliography
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The Riddle of the Jew's "Success"
F. Roderich-Stoltheim (Theodor Fritsch)
Softcover, 282 pages
Stock Number: 0717
Hitler's favorite book? Maybe. But definitely for the National Socialists
their favorite writer! A great read that helps you understand Hitler's mind.
This rare and valuable book provides a detailed analysis of Jewish behavior
and thinking. This is a reprint of the English-language edition of 1927,
translated from German by Capel Pownall. After Germany’s defeat in 1945, this
book was banned by the Allied occupation authorities, and nearly all copies were
destroyed.
Written by the influential German publicist Theodor Fritsch, it appeared under
a pen name. Fritsch was best known for his "Handbook On the Jewish Question,"
which went through 33 editions between 1887 and 1933, and had a tremendous
influence in the decades before Hitler came to power.
The Riddle the Jew’s "Success" helps in understanding the scope and intensity
of anti-Jewish feeling in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s.
From the Preface: "If there are riddles in the history of the nations, then
the Jews most certainly present one of the chief instances; and, whoever has
occupied himself with the problems of humanity, without advancing so far as the
great problem of the Jews, has, so far as knowledge and experience of life are
concerned, merely skimmed the surface of the subject. There is scarcely a field,
from Art and Literature to Religion and Political Economy, from Politics to the
most secret domains of sensuality and criminality, in which the influence of the
Jewish spirit and of the Jewish entity cannot be clearly traced, and has not
imparted a peculiar warp or trend to the affairs in question."
Contents: Preface; Jewish Methods in the Economic Life; Particular Business
Tactics of the Jew; The International Connection and Secret League of the
Hebrews; The Peculiar Morality of Jewdom; An Explanation with Sombart; Jewish
Successes in Modern Times; The Stock-Exchange; How Sound Business Methods are
Forced Out of the Field by the Jews; Jewish Trade Specialities; Moral Principles
in Trade; The Hebrews as Supporters of Capitalism; Business and Religion; The
Race Problem; Origin of the Jewish Entity; The Influence of the Jew upon
Womankind; The Jews and the World-War; Concluding Words; Errata.
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Professor F. Littell has said:
You can't discuss the truth of the holocaust. That is a distortion of the
concept of free speech. The United States should emulate Germany, which outlaws
such exercises.
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v11/v11p365_Bennett.html
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"Deep down, I believe that a little anti-Semitism is a good thing for the Jews
- reminds us who we are."
--Jay Lefkowitz (NYT Magazine. Feb.12, 1995. Page 65). Jay Lefkowitz is now
Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy.
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