[miss marmelstein]

There's a very good book by the Anglo-Jewish playwright, Bernard Kops, called "The World is a Wedding." It's about his terrible childhood in the East End during the second world war. When he wasn't being bombed to hell by the Germans, he was being bombarded by hate speeches by Oswald Mosley. What a nightmare!

[vimto]

I haven't read the book but I guess it would be pretty harrowing. Certainly there are times and seasons of antisemitism. But my parents who lived through the war (my dad on the railway trains) considered Mosley's Blackshirts a joke. I know some Jewish graves have been desecrated all over Europe. They keep it quiet to stop it growing, I have spoken to police who have told me of this.