Anti-Semitism Plays Coy in 'Jewish Princess' Jokes

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Los Angeles Times

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"In most polite settings outright expressions of anti-Semitism, including jokes that rely on anti-Semitic imagery, are frowned on. Regardless of one's true opinion of Jews, few people would think of bursting out in the middle of a dinner party, "Did you hear the joke about the Jew who . . . ?" Now a new form of Jew hatred has become socially acceptable even to some Jews: the Jewish American Princess (JAP)." To read the rest of this commentary, click the link above.

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Lipstadt, Deborah E.; Social Critics and Social Criticism; Social Criticism; Antisemitism; United States

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