Forster, Arnold Square One: A Memoir ISBN 13: 9781556111044

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The author recounts his fifty-year battle against anti-Semitism in America and abroad, touching on such timely issues as Israeli-Arab conflicts, anti-Semitic organizations, and the Sharon-Time magazine libel case

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Traditional, organized anti-Semitism has decreased sharply over the past 40 years, but Forster, chief attorney for the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League, notes that anti-Jewish attitudes are still deep-rooted and pervasive. As the title of this punchy autobiographical memoir implies, society is almost "back to square one" in the fight against bigotry. One need not agree with his opinions on Jesse Jackson or Israel's handling of the Palestinian uprising to appreciate this outspoken and deeply disturbing report. Forster speaks from firsthand experience: he battled McCarthyism and blacklisting, led the fight against the Arab boycott of U.S. companies doing business with Israel, covered the Adolf Eichmann trial for Look , hobnobbed with Walter Mondale, Henry Luce, Golda Meir, Ben-Gurion. Starting with assaults on Jews made by Father Coughlin, McCarthy, the German-American Bund and the KKK, and continuing to recent incidents, Forster names names and exposes bigots in a jolting reassessment of how American Jews fare today.
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Forster was chief attorney of B'nai Brith's Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for nearly 50 years, and his breezy, partisan memoir illuminates portions of the extraordinary career of one of the preeminent defenders of Jewish rights and the State of Israel. Forster's reflections on his many battles against bigotry make fascinating reading, as do his recollections of Ben Gurion and Golda Meir, among others. Although often episodic and superficial, the book is especially revealing about the fight against the blacklist in the 1950s and the Arab boycott of Israel. Forster is not sanguine about the future: organized anti-Semitism has diminished in America, but the anti-Semitic attitude has not, and we are back at "square one." Candid and engaging. Benny Kraut, Univ. of Cincinnati
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  • PublisherDutton Adult
  • Publication date1988
  • ISBN 10 1556111045
  • ISBN 13 9781556111044
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number2

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