BOOK MARKS
The two images farthest removed from each other which can be comprehended under one term, are, I think, Isaiah - 'Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth!' - and Levi of Holywell Street - 'Old Clothes!' - both of them Jews, you'll observe."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1833)
JEWS WHO FLND A STEADY DLET of books about the antisemitism of England's learned (and also not so learned) classes more unpleasant than exploratory surgery will find a welcome antidote in The People of the Book: Philosemitism in England, from Cromwell to Churchill by Gertrude Himmelfarb (Encounter Books, 2011, 183 pp., $23.95), a learned, scintillating, and (mostly) optimistic …
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