sshulman,
 
mightn't arendt's eichman bk -
everywhere the primary judas was the ghetto elders,
dampen a little yer zeal fer calling the roll of guilt?
 
in general,  the trouble with holocaust industry stuff is:
(1) it's very profitable;
(2)it's tendentious,
serves the needs of predatory power, the us & israel;
and (3) much as the matter calls for it,
objective inquiry is precluded
under threat of the adl thought-police'
dread blackball, "anti-semite";
so that almost none of it has the least seriousness
for humanistical purposes, no?
 
 
in the mythology of the west
judaism, obviously, bears a paternal relationship to xian civ;
and, as with every parent-child,
a mad compound of love & hate.
better than summary condemnation,
were researching  the ground of his hate
in say the sang froid of the international bankers.
 
bob
 
-----Original Message-----
From: sshulman <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Sunday, October 17, 1999 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: Anti-Semitism
 
 
>Having litle desire to delve into Poundian politics, I should like to
>comment on the myth of, 'The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could
>Not Have Saved More Jews From The Nazis'.
>Are you aware that Canada's motto toward Jews during WWII, was, "none is
>too many", that FDR's advisors found certain dollar sums per Jew, too
>high a ransom, that it was British troops, who refused ships carrying
>European Jews, entry to Palestine?
>Shall we continue, 'democracy' by 'democracy'?
>
>Leon Surette wrote:
>>
>>         I have refrained from participating in the thread on Pound and
>> anti-Semitism which has bee ngoing on for some weeks or months now
because
>> it did not seem to me that people were interested in informing themselves
on
>> the topic so much as they were concerned to vent their own settled views
on
>> the matter.
>>         But let me recommend two very well informed and measured
discussions
>> of the matter: Albert S. Lindemann,_ Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism
and
>> the Rise of the Jews_, Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1997; and William D.
>> Rubinstein, _The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies could not have Saved
>> mor Jews from the Nazis_, New York: Routledg 1997. These two books
provide
>> an excellent survey of recent literature on anti_Semitism and the
Holocaust
>> as well as offering their own analysis of the issue.
>>
>>         As for Pound, I have forthcoming from Illinois UP _Pound in
>> Purgatory: From economic Radicalism to Anti-Semitism_. In that book I
>> carefully examine Pound unpublished letters and ephemeral journalism with
a
>> view to gaining a better understanding of his economic opinions.
Incidental
>> to that research I found a very clear shift on Pound's part from the
casual
>> anti-Semitism of his class to the full-blown racism and conspiracy theory
>> evinced in the Rome broadcasts and the Agresti correspondence editeddby
>> Demetres Tryphonopoulos and me. There is little doubt that Pound's
>> preoccupation with economics and politics after 1933 was motivated by his
>> outrage at the Great Depression. But that outrage did not express itself
as
>> anti-Semitism until he read an anti-Semitic article by William Pelley.
>> Ironically, the journal in which it appeard was sent to Pound by Louis
>> Zukofsky--as an example of the ludicrous exaggerations of extreme
right-wing
>> American opinion. Unfortunately Pound was sufficiently impressed by
Pelley's
>> article that he set William Drummond to research the "Jewish problem,"
and
>> also sought out allies of Pelley--most importantly the German-American
>> Gesellite and anti-Semite, Hugo Fack.
>>
>> Leon Surette