Anti-Semitism in Germany and Elsewhere

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

hg comments:
"And at the risk of sounding like an apologist, the entire Western
culture, too. As I understand it, US public opinion was not exactly
virulently anti-Nazi, and neither was the rest of Europe - trust us
Germans to fuck up all that universal public goodwill with our crude
and arrogant antics...."

There's a new book on Eliot (TS, that is) and anti-semitism that sounds
worth.  It apparently suggests that Eliot's poetry was fueled in part
by his anti-semitism, but the review I read was by NEWSWEEK's Jack Kroll,
who is capable of muddling just about anything.

Anyway, Eliot (and his buddy Ezra) were just part of a long tradition that
in England alone stretches from Chaucer through Shakespeare (no, I don't
think Shylock is supposed to be sympathetic--though he certainly has been
played that way) to Dickens and beyond.

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)