"The most important book you will read this year."--Caitlin Flanagan, author of To Hell with All That WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD - The prescient former New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the alarming rise of Anti-Semitism in this country--and explains what we can do to defeat it.
She is a native of Pittsburgh and lives in New York City..
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.
About author(s): Bari Weiss is a writer and editor who worked for the opinion section of The New York Times from 2017 to 2020.
Not just for the sake of America\'s Jews, but for the sake of America.
Weiss is one of our most provocative writers, and her cri de coeur makes a powerful case for renewing Jewish and American values in this uncertain moment.
A hatred that was, until recently, reliably taboo is migrating toward the mainstream, amplified by social media and a culture of conspiracy that threatens us all.
No longer the exclusive province of the far right, the far left, and assorted religious bigots, Anti-Semitism now finds a home in identity politics as well as the reaction against identity politics, in the renewal of America First isolationism and the rise of one-world socialism, and in the spread of Islamist ideas into unlikely places.
But now the luckiest Jews in history are beginning to face a three-headed dragon known all too well to Jews of other times and places: the physical fear of violent assault, the moral fear of ideological vilification, and the political fear of resurgent fascism and populism.
With its promise of free speech and religion, its insistence that all people are created equal, its tolerance for difference, and its emphasis on shared ideals rather than bloodlines, America has been, even with all its flaws, a new Jerusalem for the Jewish people.
Like many, Weiss long believed this country could escape the rising tide of anti-Semitism.
So that terrible morning in Pittsburgh, as well as the continued surge of hate crimes against Jews in cities and towns across the country, raise a question Americans cannot avoid: Could it happen here? This book is Weiss\'s answer.
But Anti-Semitism is the oldest hatred, commonplace across the Middle East and on the rise for years in Europe.
For most Americans, the massacre at Tree of Life, the synagogue where Bari Weiss became a bat mitzvah, came as a shock.
It was the deadliest attack on Jews in American history.
On October 27, 2018, eleven Jews were gunned down as they prayed at their synagogue in Pittsburgh. "The most important book you will read this year."--Caitlin Flanagan, author of To Hell with All That WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD - The prescient former New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the alarming rise of Anti-Semitism in this country--and explains what we can do to defeat it
