Insults
Richard Wollheim
- Semites and Anti-Semites by Bernard Lewis
Weidenfeld, 288 pp, £15.00, August 1986, ISBN 0 297 79030 7 - After the Last Sky by Edward Said and Jean Mohr
Faber, 224 pp, £6.95, September 1986, ISBN 0 571 13918 3
Professor Bernard Lewis enjoys a worldwide reputation as a scholar of Near-Eastern history, and in his most recent work, Semites and Anti-Semites, he has chosen to concentrate his formidable powers of analysis, and a massive accumulation of fact, upon a relatively restricted topic, which nevertheless raises large questions of historical and political understanding. The book deals with the widespread adoption within the Arab nation-states of the classical anti-semitic rhetoric that has so consistently fouled Christian civilisation. The quotations Lewis has retrieved from journals of standing, indeed from writers who lay claim to respectability, make chilling reading. They depress our estimate of human nature.
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