East End My Cradle
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This entry contains material that some people may find disturbing.Part One
Chapter 1. Yids Versus Goys
Anti-Semitism in my infancy, had its compensations, for being confined practically to children (I speak of anti-Semitism not as a subjective attitude but in its positive sense, as demonstrated in Germany), it never amounted to anything more serious than a kind of game. It was largely a pretext for staging…
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