Can I read Jewish Nazis on EtoBox?

Jewish Nazis by Jones, E. Michael [Jones, E. Michael] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Jewish Nazis about?

The Believer, a film written and directed by Henry Bean about Danny Balint an orthodox Jew who becomes a neo-Nazi, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance film festival. It's based loosely on the life of Daniel Burros, a neo-Nazi who committed suicide in the mid-‘60s after the New York Times exposed him as a Jew. According to Bean: "The Nazis weren’t upset. They were saying just sit down; we can talk about this. But Burros went up to his room, put on a Wagner record and shot himself. He killed himself within an hour of the story coming out." Bean saw Burros as typifying a particular kind of Jew. "He was a rabbi manque. Antisemitism is a form of practicing Judaism. He’s sort of a rabbi after all. A Jew by day, a Nazi by night. . . . He was desperately hiding something and compulsively trying to bring it out at the same time. People are drawn to contradiction. He undergoes a conversion, but not back to the Torah." By telling the story of the Jewish Nazi, Bean concluded, "I began to understand what Judaism was." When Danny Balint gets a call from a New York Times reporter, he gives an eloquent articulation of anti-Semitism. Judaism "is a sickness. . . . The real Jew is a nomad a

Who reads Jewish Nazis?

Author

Jones, E. Michael [Jones, E. Michael]

Publisher

Fidelity Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction