Those Who Forget the Past (67 page)

About the Editor

RON ROSENBAUM grew upon Long Island and graduated from Bay Shore High School and Yale. He left a graduate fellowship in the Yale English Department to write full-time. His essays and journalism have appeared in
The New York Times Magazine
and
Book Review, The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic
Monthly, Slate, Salon,
and other journals, and have been collected most recently in
The Secret Parts of Fortune
(Random House 2000/Harper Perennial 2001).

He spent more than ten years working on
Explaining Hitler,
an exploration and critique of postwar attempts to account for Hitler's crimes. Translated into ten languages,
Explaining
Hitler
(Random House 1998/Harper Perennial 1999) was a
New York Times
Notable Book of the Year and was described by David Remnick as “a remarkable journey by one of the most original journalists and writers of our time.”

He has taught nonfiction writing at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism; he co-wrote the documentary
Faith and
Doubt at Ground Zero
for PBS/
Frontline,
which won a Du Pont-Columbia University Award; and he writes a bi-weekly column for
The New York Observer.
He is currently working on a book about Shakespeare scholars and directors for Random House.

ALSO BY RON ROSENBAUM

The Secret Parts of Fortune
Explaining Hitler
Travels with Dr. Death
Manhattan Passions

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Introduction copyright © 2004 by Ron Rosenbaum

Afterword copyright © 2004 by Cynthia Ozick

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Those who forget the past: the question of anti-semitism / edited and
introduced by Ron Rosenbaum; afterword by Cynthia Ozick.
p. cm.
Contents: Awakenings—Something old, something new—One death,
one lie—The ultimate stakes: the Second-Holocaust debate—The facts
on the ground in France—The shift from right to left—The deicide
accusation—Some new forms of anti-Semitism—Anti-Zionism and anti-
Semitism—Israel—Muslims

1. Anti-Semitism—History—21st century. 2. Israel—Public opinion.
3. Jews—Public opinion. I. Rosenbaum, Ron.
DS145.K485 2004
305.892'4'0090511—dc22 2003065542

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