Tag: books
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Who Is a Jew? – Max Beerbohm, Detlev Bronk, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Robert Sussman, and Jerry Hirsch
Max Beerbohm Beerbohm was a writer and artist who was famous as a caricaturist for Britain’s Vanity Fair magazine. Beerbohm was suspected of being a Jew by some of his peers and by the poet Ezra Pound, but his Jewishness is not publicly admitted. Max Beerbohm’s father, Julius, is said to have been “Lithuanian-born”, a…
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Who Is a Jew? – Matthew Perry, Alfred Kroeber, Boris Johnson, Bruce Stillman, and Daniel Hill
Matthew Perry Though I am not certain that Perry, the commodore whose expedition opened Japan to Western ideas and trade in 1853, was Jewish, I have mentioned him as a Jew in my article on Hirohito. In either case his connections with world Jewry and international Jewish finance appear incontrovertible. Commodore Perry was at least…