On Frustrations and Prestidigitators
Zygmunt Bauman
1968
On Frustrations and Prestidigitators
For the role of scapegoat, the prestidigitators chose Jews.
Rattling around in the recesses of their memory were recollections about how prewar governments in Poland had enjoyed the sympathy of the people, that they had owed it, among other reasons, to the “resonance” of their politics with the anti-Jewish moods…
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