Epstein Secrets

carrying virulently anti-Israel signs. The sign carriers were shouting epithets at me that crossed the line from civility to bigotry. “Dershowitz and Hitler, just the same, the only difference is the name.” The sin that, in the opinion of the screamers, watranted this comparison between me and the man who

eeches of Hizbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah or Osama Bin Laden. There was also constant, casual antisemitism around me. My father would boast of how Adolf Hitler was a hero, his only failing being that he didn't kill enough Jews. 354 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017441 4.2.12 WC: 191694 What changed? In Waterstones one

omon. He called me from the apartment and said that while he was out, a message was left on the machine from a guy who did a pretty good imitation of Marlon Brando. He told me that the caller, spoofing the great actor, had criticized my diction on the outgoing message. I called my machine and immediately realize

nd defeats. I can still sing ditties I learned from friends (the first sung to the tune of the Disney song from Snow White). “Whistle while you work Hitler is a jerk Mussolini is a meanie And the Japs are worse” And another (sung to the melody of “My Country Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty”): “My c

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n the United States as Lithua- nian refugees. Relatives on that side of the family who remained in the old country would all perish in the course of Adolf Hitler’s campaign to exterminate European Jewry. Epstein’s father, Seymour, was a manual laborer, like his father before him. Seymour’s parents, Julius and B

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