Some Of My Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-First Century Antisemitism (The Berlin International Center for the Study of Antisemitism

by Ben Cohen

What is involved here is the difference, as I wrote in the February 2012 essay for Commentary magazine that is included in this collection, between what I call “bierkeller” and “bistro” antisemitism. The crude, violent antisemitism incubated in the German bierkellers where the Nazis guzzled beer and shouted themselves hoarse was a hallmark of the twentieth century. Polite, modulated, ostensibly reasonable antisemitism, often calling itself “anti-Zionism,” and expressed in the progressive chatter across the tables of fashionable bistros, is a hallmark of the twenty-first.Ben Cohen

Genres: Jewish

232 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 9, 2014

About the author

There is more than one Ben Cohen in the GR database. This is Ben^^^^^Cohen.

Ben Cohen is a British-American journalist, blogger and former BBC producer based in New York. He publishes frequently on Jewish and international affairs.