4/RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW nence among the intellectualsâ a forbidding âparallel between Weimar and Americaâ that âcannot be dismissed.ââ After all, Glazer warned, Hitler had successfully blamed âthe moral âdegenerationâ of Germany on the influence of the Jewsâ and now in America a âpotential backlashââ represented the âgreatest single danger to Jews in the next ten years.â This âbacklashâagainst Jews could well find encouragement from radical Jews who openly espoused âanti-Jewish tendencie~.â~ In many respects, these intemperate views in the magazine most closely identified with Jewish neoconservatism are not surprising. Yet it is nonetheless important to recognize that no matter what the emotional appeal of these arguments-arguments made far more visceral both through the fervent invocation of Holocaust lessons and the self-stated assumption that radical Jews aligned with African-American militancy were masochists-these views were cultural constructions, invented to serve a precise political agenda. This agenda in itself was nothing new in 1971. Jewish opposition to Jewish leftism existed throughout the twentieth century, and before. In the course of the postwar period, and with intensifying urgency in the early 1960sâ radical Jews were denigrated through a politically-charged instrumentalization of Holocaust memories; Jewish radicalsâ identification with African-American civil rights activism was
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"Negroes are not Jews": Race, Holocaust Consciousness, and the Rish of Jewish Neoconservatism
Staub, Michael E.
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, Volume 1999 (75)
Duke University Press – Oct 1, 1999
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