Jews Without Mercy: A Lament

by Earl Shorris

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385178530
• ISBN13: 9780385178532
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Nobody remembers the Kitos War

In a chilling prediction, Shorris lays bare the abandonment of the millenia-old commitment Jews have to the victims of social and economic injustice. Not all Jews, but those who have decided consciously or not that they are "passing," sufficiently cloaked with the Gentile respectability of class, the right education and family means to forget that as little as two generations ago, their grandparents were quite frequently regarded as many still regard non-whites today: the Other, to be feared, denied, repressed and oppressed if necessary. The attainment of the same respectability their former oppressors enjoyed has given this certain type the freedom to throw off the chains of compassion and remembrance and embrace the very attitudes that squeezed their forebears' hopes and dreams. Jewish Trotskyites railed against the evils of capitalism in the Thirties; Jewish neo-Trotskyites like Irving Kristol, Marty Peretz, Norman Podhoretz and Charles Krauthammer called themselves "neo-conservatives" and turned their anger against every social program intended to help the poor, the brutalized, the ignorant, the non-white and the helpless. The Jews Without Mercy represent a return of the sort of Jews who massacred half a million people in the Kitos War, and the sort of Jew who today rules the Ghazans. Shorris' book sank without a trace when it was published, but it's now getting an audience because of the disastrous influence of the neo-conservative reign since the 1980's.