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December 29, 2020

Lies and Loathing in Hebron

An anthropologist maligns the world’s most maligned Jews.

“No Jews” in our times, writes Jerold Auerbach, “have been as relentlessly maligned as the Jews of Hebron.” In her recent book Settling Hebron: Jewish Fundamentalism in a Palestinian City, the Columbia University anthropologist Tamara Neuman—armed with the latest social-science jargon—joins her many predecessors in casting aspersions on the West Bank city’s small Jewish community. Auerbach writes:

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