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  • Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Germany, circa 1980
    Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Germany, circa 1980
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    My Favorite Antisemite: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

    The director’s films tackled the grandest questions in German culture and politics, before he turned his critical eye to the Jews

    byMardean Isaac
  • Edith Wharton, taken by E. F. Cooper, at Newport, Rhode Island.
    Edith Wharton, taken by E. F. Cooper, at Newport, Rhode Island.
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    My Favorite Anti-Semite: Edith Wharton

    There’s a barbarian at every gate

    byAnne Roiphe
  • Gregor von Rezzori.
    Gregor von Rezzori.
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    My Favorite Anti-Semite: Gregor von Rezzori

    Two decades after his death, why the German-language writer and memoirist yearned for an era he never knew

    byWesley Yang
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    My Favorite Anti-Semite: H.P. Lovecraft

    The 20th-century master of horror admired Hitler but married a Jew and hated ‘alien’ cultures but created some of the most memorable ones in literature

    byHunter C. Eden
  • Rupert Brooke in 1910.
    Rupert Brooke in 1910.
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    Rupert Brooke, My Favorite Anti-Semite

    A Tablet continuing series of tributes to the people who hate us

    byAlexander Aciman
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    My Favorite Anti-Semite: An American Jewish Reflection on Ty Cobb for Opening Day

    He was the greatest and strangest of all ball players, a fierce competitor, and a hateful person

    byAri Hoffman
  • Amiri Baraka in New York City on June 30, 1964.
    Amiri Baraka in New York City on June 30, 1964.
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    My Favorite Anti-Semite: How Amiri Baraka Inspired Me

    Kaddish for the recently deceased poet with a history of bigotry, from a poet with a feeling for jazz

    byJake Marmer
  • “I'll do for you myself, you dirty Jew,” shouted Marcus. Left to right: Maria (Dale Fuller], Marcus [Jean Hersholt], Zerkow [Cesare Gravina].
    “I'll do for you myself, you dirty Jew,” shouted Marcus. Left to right: Maria (Dale Fuller], Marcus [Jean Hersholt], Zerkow [Cesare Gravina].
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    My Favorite Anti-Semite: Frank Norris and the Most Horrifying Jew in American Literature

    The progressive-era novelist’s greedy, red-haired, Polish Jew, Zerkow, is the 20th century’s greatest golem

    byElisa New
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