I have someone close who is an anti-semite. What books do you recommend to correct them? My first thought is "Night" but I'm sure there are others....
2006-09-07 13:23:57 · 14 answers · asked by angrysandwichguy1 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The diary of Anne Frank; the gifts of the Jews, and,if he still thinks his feelings toward mankind are right, he should read "the complete guide for suicidal episodes"
2006-09-07 14:40:47 · answer #1 · answered by Pablo 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Depends on his/her so-called 'arguments'.
For people who call temselves anti-Zionists (most of which clearly are anti-Semites), I would recommend Theodor Herzl's The Jewish State + Old New Land and Alan Dershowitz' The Case for Israel
For people with 'classical' racist or religious, etc. anti-Semite prejudices:
Yes, Anne Frank
Lion Feuchtwanger - The Oppermanns
Peter Weiss - The Investigation
Primo Levi - If This Is a Man + Survival in Auschwitz
Philip Roth - The Plot Against America
Joseph Roth - Spider's Web
Andre Schwarz-Bart - The Last of the Just
+ Paul Celan's poem Deathfugue
+ Night is a very good choice!
2006-09-08 04:52:34 · answer #2 · answered by msmiligan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd start him off with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Then I'd go on to something by Harold Robbins so this person can see what a pervy old Jew writes. I'd try to get old copies of Der Sturmer - oh, whoops, you want to correct him. Read the other answers but hey, if ever anyone looked like a Sturmer caricature of a Jew it was Yasser Arafat LOL.
2006-09-10 09:09:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any books by Elie Wiesel would be a good read for anyone. I'd recomend finding a book of pictures from the Holocaust. Nothing is more powerful than seeing a man in a concentration camp who is so thin that you can see his bones.
2006-09-10 17:15:36 · answer #4 · answered by x 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Maus" by Art Spiegelman
"Schindler's List" by Thomas Keneally
"Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl"
"Eichmann in Jerusalem" by Hannah Arendt
"Survival in Auschwitz" by Primo Levi
"A Holocaust Reader" by Lucy S. Davidowicz
"Prank" by Kathryn Lasky
2006-09-08 09:18:06 · answer #5 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levy
2006-09-07 21:03:18 · answer #6 · answered by flugelberry 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mans search for meaning by Victor Frankel
2006-09-07 22:44:07 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Number the stars
2006-09-07 20:31:26 · answer #8 · answered by Julie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Victor Fankel's "Man's Search for Meaning"
2006-09-07 22:35:04 · answer #9 · answered by jennybeanses 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read the numbers on the arm
2006-09-07 20:26:34 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋