THE REAL ANTI~SEMITISM IN AMERICA ~SIGNED COPY~

black & grey 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings (except for the authors' signatures). dustwrapper in fine cond. front flap has a crease inside, not torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, (except for the authors' signatures) inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). (flat) SIGNED (no inscription) on the front flyleaf by both authors with date (11/14/82). 303p. american history. politics. jewish history. ~ The Ku Klux Klan membership has increased twenty percent, and in 1981, for the third consecutive year, the number of reported anti~Semitic incidents more than doubled. Are these citings, though significant, the real threat to Jews in America? Nathan Perlmutter, National Director of the Anti~Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, former Associate National Director of the American Jewish Committee, former vice~president of development at Brandeis University~and private citizen~sees even more ominous threats to Jews in America: American diplomats who sit silently in the United Nations while Arab spokesmen equate Zionism with racism; American politicians who approve the sale of arms to nations still at war with Israel; American civil rights leaders who advocate a quota system that limits educational and employment opportunities for Jews. From a unique perspective that is at once authoritative and personal, the authors suggest that Jews reconsider their social and political affiliations in the interest of self~preservation, and remind non~Jews of the moral and long~term considerations too often ignored in favor of short~sighted strategies. A provocative and important work that probes the crucial issues facing American Jews today, The Real Anti~Semitism in America is for both Jew and non~Jew, for anyone who believes in the root values of America and its future.…