Re: RE: Re: RE: Under Andalusian skies

[Michael Pugliese <debsian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

   Norman Finkelstein and R. Bern pretty much demolished Goldhagen. See the
short book, expanding on Norman's NLR piece.
Michael Pugliese


5/8/02 11:07:22 AM, "Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>> >Though I totally disagree with Goldhagen and his ilk,
>> weren't German Jews
>> >pretty tolerated and integrated in, say, 1930? That is,
>> can't anti-Jewish
>> >bigotry come to the surface even where the role of Jews is
>> normalized?
>>
>> I really don't understand what you are getting at. Toleration
>> of Jews in
>> 1930 is in itself a refutation of the Goldhagen thesis.
>
>I'd say so, but Goldhagen might say that the Germans were simply hiding
>their inner nature.
>
>Anyway, my point is that even though Tunisia generally treats Jews well,
>it's possible that all we're seeing is surface appearances. Similarly, just
>looking at journalistic approaches to Yugoslavia before Tito's death, the
>IMF austerity, and the political break-up might suggest that Serbs, Croats,
>and Bosnian Muslims had settled their "age old" differences and were ready
>and willing to live in peace for eternity. But when the economy breaks down
>and normal social mores melt down, all sorts of horrible things can happen.
>This can happen in the U.S. someday, where we might see a replay of the wave
>of popular hatred (backed and reinforced by government decree) that swept
>Japanese-Americans off to internment camps in 1941-1942, though likely this
>wave would hit some other ethnic group.
>JD
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