Books: The Fear That Still Flows in the Blood ; Who Would Dare to Suggest That Anti-Semitism Has Had Some Positive Effects for the Jewish People? Maybe Only a Rabbi. Sholto Byrnes Meets Dan Cohn-Sherbok and Discusses the Controversial Ideas Outlined in His New Book

When Dan Cohn-Sherbok was growing up in Colorado, his parents were on the fringes of the Wasp world that made up the Denver upper class. They were listed in the city's social register' his father was a surgeon. But the young Dan was aware that there were areas of Denver that were off-limits to Jews. In certain residential districts, no one would sell houses to Jews or blacks. The Country Club and the University Club would not admit Jews as members. "No matter what I might achieve," he remembers, "I knew that the door to that Gentile world was firmly shut." It made him feel "uncomfortable", "marginalised", "an outsider". "I have experienced anti-Semitism," he says, "and I hated …

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Publication information: Article title: Books: The Fear That Still Flows in the Blood ; Who Would Dare to Suggest That Anti-Semitism Has Had Some Positive Effects for the Jewish People? Maybe Only a Rabbi. Sholto Byrnes Meets Dan Cohn-Sherbok and Discusses the Controversial Ideas Outlined in His New Book. Contributors: Not available. Newspaper title: The Independent on Sunday (London, England). Publication date: March 19, 2006. Page number: 20. © 2009 The Independent on Sunday. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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