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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/opinion/antisemitism-europe-jews.html
Europe's Jew Hatred, and Ours
(New York Times) Bari Weiss - Anti-Semitism has been a fact of European life for more than 2,000 years. The postwar generation who lived with the shame of the Holocaust is dying out. Their children and grandchildren are less abashed when it comes to the old prejudices. In her forthcoming book, Anti-Semitism: Here and Now, scholar Deborah Lipstadt discusses a 2013 study of overtly anti-Semitic letters, emails and faxes received over the previous decade by the Israeli embassy in Berlin and the Central Council of Jews in Germany. The study found that 60% percent of the messages "came from educated, middle-class Germans, including lawyers, scholars, doctors, priests, professors, and university and secondary school students." Most of the letter writers provided their names and addresses.