Anti-Semitism on the Left
Like many of their Jewish assimilationist parents, many Jews who became active in the Left felt that the best way to deal with anti-Semitism was to convince themselves that if they showed they were not too Jewish, and didn’t make too much of it, they would not offend their non-Jewish colleagues (who, consciously or unconsciously, they suspected…
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