(Jewish Group) Top UK rabbi's book explains to non-Jews how anti-Semitism impacts them, too

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When Julia Neuberger was a child in 1950s Britain, anti-Semitism was rarely a topic of conversation. The occasional reference would come when, driving his family around in their “shabby Ford Popular,” her father would suggest that the traffic signals were anti-Semitic if they encountered a run of red lights.

Of course, anti-Semitism was no laughing matter: Neuberger’s mother escaped Nazi Germany before the war but most of her family wasn’t so fortunate and died in the camps. Her father’s grandmother found temporary refuge in the Netherlands, but later perished in Sobibor.

But, as she writes in her new book, “Antisemitism: What It Is, What It Isn’t, Why It Matters,” her father’s jesting comments reflected the fact that, for Jews, postwar Britain felt safe, accepting and tolerant.

“If Jews felt threatened by anti-Semitism in 1950s or 1960s Britain,” she says, “we certainly were not aware of it.”

While Britain is a more liberal, multicultural and diverse country than it was half a century ago, many Jews would hesitate before making such a claim today.

“The music has changed,” as Neuberger puts it.

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[TreasonousBastard]

1. Hatred and bigotry of any sort is a cancer eating society from the inside out. No one is left unhurt