Bari Weiss
Autor de How to Fight Anti-Semitism
Sobre El Autor
Bari Weiss is a writer and editor who worked for the opinion section of The New York Times for 2017 to 2020. Previously, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet, the online magazine of Jewish politics and culture. She is a native of mostrar más Pittsburgh and lives in New York City. mostrar menos
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1984-03-25
- Género
- female
- País (para mapa)
- USA
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Miembros
- 123
- Popularidad
- #162,201
- Valoración
- 3.3
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 10
- Favorito
- 1
Weiss correctly distinguishes among the three prevalent strains of the anti-Semitism virus: Right, Left, and Islamist, and correctly observes that while white supremacists are the anti-Semites most likely to shoot up a synagogue, they are responsible for only a small fraction of anti-Semitic acts. American Jews, however, "are eager to be the right kind of victims—meaning victims of the bad people on the right, and not the good people on the left."
Weiss is sure handed establishing how anti-Semitism pollutes our culture, our world of ideas, and ultimately our polity. Her final chapter, on combatting anti-Semitism, is unobjectionable but perhaps a bit thin. Yes, we must be brave and yes we should remain true to our better selves. But hard choices about the kinds of political action we take and the political allegiances we maintain are needed. I look forward to learning more about Weiss's views on those choices.… (más)