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6587043 No.6587043 [Reply] [Original]

What's with the antisemitism?

>> No.6587061

There was no holocaust yet and the protocols of the learned elders of zion was popular.

>> No.6587073

a little casual antisemitism never hurt anyone

>> No.6587090

Kohn is actually not a bad person. Hemingway's antisemitism doesn't go much farther than a funny nose joke in my opinion.

>> No.6587148

to illustrate a point about the devolution of old world morals

>> No.6587276

>>6587043
Jews are trash.

>> No.6587293

>>6587043
Yuros and spaniards in particular don't give a shit about jews, and Hemingway spend a lot of time in Yuroland.

>> No.6587295

that is one fucking nice cover

>> No.6587296

>>6587293
Terrible analysis. US as a whole was antisemitic as fuck at the time this book was written

>> No.6587319

>>6587296
The US has always loved the Chosen People, MODS!!

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>>6587295
Could be better

>> No.6587609

>>6587319
s-shut the fuck up goy!!

>> No.6587619

Muy Shekels!

>> No.6587623

Hemingway despised Kohn as a character, it's not so much that he's antiemetic, he uses Kohn's jewish roots to poke fun at him and show his disdain for the personality/characteristics Kohn has.

>> No.6587628
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6587628

Cohn is a sympathetic character. The Jew jokes are to highlight his ostracism. Cohn's Jewry keeps him socially adrift the way Jake's impotence keeps him romantically adrift.

He is something of a mirror, too. His tennis game, and life, fall apart considerably when he falls in love with Lady Ashley. Familiar.

Cohn is not to be hated, and his Jewishness serves a purpose beyond muh antisemitism.

Also, this cover is based cover.

>> No.6587663

>>6587043
It was ordinary at the time.

People need to learn to read things with the original context in mind rather than expecting everything to conform to the mores of a time decades (or centuries) later.

>> No.6587827

There is nothing wrong with being an antisemite.
Im jewish and I say this. I dont trust other jews at all and I definitely wouldn't blame other whites for not trusting us.

>> No.6587832

>>6587319
Wrong. Ever seen citizen Kane? Well the irl businessman he was based on threatened to reveal to america the sheer amount of jews in Hollywood, even back then! That seems to indicate that early 1900s America was generally antisemitic

>> No.6588133

>>6587827
Ever since my bar mitzvah, and my indoctrination into the secret covenant of jewish world domination by my rabbi, my eyes have opened and I see why people hate jews so much.

>> No.6589654

>>6587623
> he uses Kohn's jewish roots to poke fun at him and show his disdain for the personality/characteristics Kohn has.

judging someone's character on the basis their jewish heritage or physical characteristics is antisemitic, and thats exactly what your saying hemingway does