Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Anti-Semitic vandalism in Rhode Island

Pawtucket synagogue vandalized


 What were the roots of hateful anti-Semitism in Hitler's Third Reich ? Most historians explain it in term of scape goat creating by the German capitalist class-who also felt threatened by not a few German Jews active in the Social Democracy of the Weimar Republic so loathed by the young Hitler in his " Mein Kampf ".

In this particular incident there was probably more brainless vandalism than reactionary politics. A little thing called " cultural literacy " would enlighten high school students about the horror behind the German swastika. But illiberal liberalism frowned on " cultural literacy ". I recall " The Diary of Anne Frank " is referenced somewhere in the " Dictionary of Cultural Literacy ".

The New First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Your Child Needs ...

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0618408533
Eric Donald Hirsch, ‎William G. Rowland, ‎Michael Stanford - 2004 - ‎Juvenile Nonfiction
Frank, Anne Anne Frank, a Dutch Jewish girl, spent two years hiding from the NAZIS in AMSTERDAM during WORLD WAR II. She was eventually captured and ...

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