{"id":83,"date":"2014-01-02T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2021-01-14T21:13:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T20:13:21","slug":"antisemitism-the-return-of-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/en\/antisemitism-the-return-of-the-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"Antisemitism\/ The Return of the Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p><style type=&quot;text\/css&quot;>\n<!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Cambria;\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-parent:&quot;&quot;;\n\tmargin:0cm;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tfont-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\n\tmso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\n@page Section1\n\t{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;\n\tmargin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;\n\tmso-header-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-footer-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.Section1\n\t{page:Section1;}\n-->\n<\/style>\n<\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><span style=&quot;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&quot;>Two new books by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen and Alvin Rosenfeld on the return of global antisemitism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><style type=&quot;text\/css&quot;>\n<!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Cambria;\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:????;\n\tmso-font-charset:80;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:1 0 16778254 0 262144 0;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-parent:&quot;&quot;;\n\tmargin:0cm;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tfont-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\n\tmso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\n@page Section1\n\t{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;\n\tmargin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;\n\tmso-header-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-footer-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.Section1\n\t{page:Section1;}\n-->\n<\/style>\n<\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:\nnormal&quot;><span style=&quot;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\n????&quot;>&laquo;&nbsp;&hellip; The implicit or explicit motivation of those who, in one capacity or another, Jewish or non-Jewish, wrote about the Holocaust or recorded testimonies or reflections about it &ndash; eye witnesses, historians, philosophers, theologians, law experts, poets, novelists, journalists, movie or TV directors &ndash; was until recently&nbsp;: Never again.&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:\nnormal&quot;><span style=&quot;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\n????&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:\nnormal&quot;><span style=&quot;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\n????&quot;>&laquo;&nbsp;&hellip; What however if the Never again&nbsp;! imperative has just been a passing delusion&nbsp;and if,<span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>even more perversely, Holocaust memories and pieties, and even Holocaust studies, have been interwoven into the new antisemitic mantras&nbsp;? What if Evil &ndash; if not the Devil itself &ndash; outsmarted morality, and succeeded to harness and manipulate it to its own ends&nbsp;? Was it not utterly naive to believe, as so many people did, that an unprecedented emotional shock &ndash; caused in the Spring of 1945 by the images of the Nazi camps released in movie theaters in America and elsewhere on the personal orders of General Dwight Eisenhower &#8211; would provide for a lasting moral reset&nbsp;? But here we are&nbsp;: antisemitism is back with a vengeance, and the longing for, or the actual planning of, a second genocide of the Jews has come true in the Islamic world and in other parts of the world.&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:\nnormal&quot;><span style=&quot;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\n????&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight:\nnormal&quot;><u><span style=&quot;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\n????&quot;>Just published in Commentary Magazine, January 2014.<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight:\nnormal&quot;><u><span style=&quot;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\n????&quot;><span style=&quot;text-decoration:none&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight:\nnormal&quot;><u><span style=&quot;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\n????&quot;>The full story&nbsp;:<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><span style=&quot;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight:\nnormal&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size:20.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\n&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&quot;>http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/article\/the-return-of-the-devil\/<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<style type=&quot;text\/css&quot;>\n<\/style>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot;>Two new books by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen and Alvin Rosenfeld on the return of global antisemitism.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/en\/antisemitism-the-return-of-the-devil\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Antisemitism\/ The Return of the Devil &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[655],"tags":[651],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}