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London: SECKER & WARBURG
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With a new preface by Michael Walzer Jean-Paul Sartre's book is a brilliant portrait of both anti-Semite and Jew, written by a non-Jew and from a non-Jewish point of view. Nothing of the anti-Semite either in his subtle form as a snob, or in his crude form as a gangster, escapes Sartre's sharp eye, and the whole problem of the Jew's relationship to the Gentile is examined in a concrete and living way, rather than in terms of sociological abstractions.
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I'm not sorry I read this, but I wouldn't read it again. It took me an awfully long time, and I've been reading it in installments for months. Sartre writes well and interestingly, but doesn't seem to have much of a basis for his theories. He talks at length on a subject he knows little about, it
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would seem. The book left me with distinctly mixed feelings, and towards the end I got rather fed up of his repeated ramblings and finished the book quickly. I'm not sure whether I now want to attempt to read any of his other books or not. Show Less
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1943
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Donated by E Hoffman Dec 2019