Traditional antiSemitism has resurfaced and received an institutional

framework, while verbal and physical aggression against

Jews and Roma has intensified.

Increasing Anti-Roma Sentiment

Anti-Roma attitudes existed during communism as

well. However, after the transition these quickly

escalated into violence, sometimes including outright

atrocities[96] and even racist serial killings.

Conference Call

The Lithuanian sponsors of a Holocaust

education program have a dark history

of their own

By Dovid Katz

Today,  December 3, is the fifth and last day of an

event in the Lithuanian capital that few would have

thought likely: an international conference on Holocaust

edu-cation whose prime local partners are two statesponsored bodies that specialize in downgrading the

Holocaust into “one of two equal genocides”—a

phenomenon I wrote about for Tablet magazine last

May. The Genocide Research Center runs a Genocide

Museum that doesn’t mention the word Holocaust and

that features 1950s anti-Semitic exhibits without

curatorial comment.

The “Sajmište” (Exhibition Grounds)

in Semlin, Serbia

The Changin of Memory

By Mladenka Ivanković

In 1937 a national exhibition site opened in Belgrade.

Originally intended to represent indigenous advancements, in 1941 it became a Nazi concentration camp

called “Sajmište” and its main use became the

extermination of Jewish women, children, and elderly.

This was not recognized until the 1980s; until then the

climate was one of socialism.

The Plot Against England

Novelist Howard Jacobson, a finalist for the Man

Booker Prize, talks about English anti-Semitism, pingpong, and the seriousness of Jewish jokes

By Tablet Magazine

The British Jewish writer Howard Jacobson’s eleventh

novel, The Finkler Question, is on the shortlist for the

Man Booker Prize, to be awarded on October 12 to the

best novel written in English by a Commonwealth

citizen this year. On the occasion, Jacobson spoke to

Tablet Magazine last week about English anti-Semitism,

Israel “swaggering around,” and why Jews used to be

good at ping-pong. Plus: The first U.S. publication of

Jacobson’s 1999 profile of table tennis champion Marty

Reisman.

You described your 2007 novel Kalooki Nights as

“the most Jewish novel that has ever been written by

anybody anywhere” and we agree—

It certainly uses the word “Jew” more than any other

novel.

Smash

A Booker Prize finalist profiles hardbat ping-pong

champ Marty Reisman, who never lost his taste for

winning

So what do you mean by that?

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