“He only meant that what happened to the Jews—” “In Europe—not in Newark! We are not the wretched of Belsen! We were not the victims of that crime!” “But we could be—in their place we would be. Nathan, violence is nothing new to Jews, you know that!” “Ma, you want to see physical violence done to the Jews of Newark, go to the office of the plastic surgeon where the girls get their noses fixed. That’s where the Jewish blood flows in Essex County, that’s where the blow is delivered—with a mallet! To their bones—and to their pride!”
Fear of antisemitism in the 1960s and after Is it exaggerated ?
