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Hope: A Tragedy, tracks the escapades of Solomon Kugel, a
schlimazel of a Jew who discovers an elderly Anne Frank living in his attic in upstate New York. But does that really sound like Anne? Living in an attic in New York for decades? For one, getting an American visa in 1945, even for survivors, was extremely difficult. Second, one would think that Anne had had her fill of attics by that point. No, a far more realistic scenario would be Anne Frank having moved to Palestine with tens of thousands of other survivors. Perhaps she would have even joined the Irgun! Lord knows she would not have become a
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If there is any term thrown around by Jews as much as “antisemitism” it is “Jewish self-hatred,” a concept made famous by the notorious Otto Weininger over a century ago, and ever since hurled at any Jew (by fellow Jews) who purportedly violates normative communal standards. By this point, the paradigm has been reduced to virtual caricature; when Larry David proudly quipped that he hates himself, but it has nothing to do with being Jewish after having been branded “a self-loathing Jew” for whistling Wagner on a memorable episode of