His words are some of the strongest he has given on the subject, saying he will fight with every breath to oppose the evil of
prejudice against Jewish people.
The antisemitism to which he was referring is not only a racist
prejudice against Jewish people - it's also a theory about how the world works.
Not exact matches
While this controversy never circulated to that level («Goodfellas» also has Irish and
Jewish - Americans as major characters), «Goodfellas» at least showed that Scorsese was aware of
prejudice against Italians.
By anti-Semitism is here intended not the latent
prejudice against Jews which is a common phenomenon in history and which, as Rabbi Joel Blau put it, «dates back to the beginnings of the
Jewish people.»
«Holmes» influence promised, then, to help release American culture from a Christian bias that most
Jewish intellectuals found provincial at best and that at worst provided a basis for continued
prejudice against Jews and other non-Christians.»
Consider how Martin Buber's studies of Hasidism evoked rather good feelings from well - educated, middle - class Jews toward the Hasidic tradition (relieving the
prejudice that the Haskalah, or
Jewish Enlightenment, had raised
against the Hasidim) Consider also that very few of these folk seriously contemplated taking up a Hasidic lifestyle.
On the one side is the Book of Esther, revealing «the fiery heart of
Jewish nationalism in the third century B.c.,» and on the other the Books of Ruth and Jonah with their appeals
against racial
prejudice and international hostility.