October 26 2008

Broadcast Date: 
Oct 26 2008

As the financial crisis deepens, an upsurge in anti-Semitic comments on the Internet; Robert Meeropol, son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, reacts to the release of new information about the case; and a 1949 novella about the cleansing of a Palestinian village is finally published in English.

Episode segments
  • Upsurge in Anti-Semitic Postings on the Internet
    Global, Anti-Semitism

    Chip Berlet is Senior Research Analyst at Political Research Associates, where he specializes in investigating right-wing social movements, apocalyptic scapegoating and conspiracism, and authoritarianism.

     
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark.

    As the global economic turmoil deepens, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is reporting a dramatic upsurge in the number of anti-Semitic statements being posted to Internet discussion boards devoted to finance and the economy as well as on a wide variety of blogs and neo-Nazi and white supremacist websites. 

  • The Case Against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: New Revelations
    National Politics, American, Civil Rights, Anti-Semitism, Jewish
    Robert Meeropol is the younger son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and the founder and Executive Director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children.  His memoir, An Execution in the Family, was published by St. Martin's Press in 2003.
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    In 1953, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed for passing the secret of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.  This fall, the release of grand jury transcripts and the admission by co-defendant Morton Sobel lthat he and Julius Rosenberg passed industrial and military (but not atomic) secrets to the USSR during WWII, have re-opened the debate over their culpability and the handling of their case by the U.S. government.  We talk about these revelations with their younger son, Robert Meeropol.

  • Khirbet Khizeh
    Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Literature
    Yaacob Dweck translated Khirbet Khizeh with Nicholas De Lange. Dweck is a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University.
    Alisa Solomon

    Khirbet Khizeh, a novella by by S. Yizhar, is about the violent expulsion of Palestinian villagers by the Israeli army.  Published in 1949, just months after the 1948 war, it was an immediate sensation and source of intense controversy in Israel. But although it has long been considered a modern Hebrew masterpiece,  it has not been translated into English until now.  

    For information on how to order a copy, click here.