Anti-Semitism Without Any Jews
QNA With Professor Norman Simms, a Proud Jew Down Under

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
November 5, 2007

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/231/anti-semitism-without-any-jews

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Professor Norman Simms was born in 1940 and grew up in Borough Park, Brooklyn (my home town). He studied at Machzike Talmud Torah, Styuvesant High School, Alfred University, and received his Ph.D from Washington University in English Literature. He protested the War in Vietnam, moved to Canada to teach at the University of Manitoba, and from there to the University of Waikato, in Hamilton, New Zealand where he has been ever since.

He has increasingly devoted himself to Jewish studies and to the phenomenon of "crypto-Jews" as "secret agents" of rabbinic wisdom. He has published 15 books, including "Masks in the Mirror: Marranism in Jewish Experience" (Peter Lang, 2005) and "Festivals of Laughter, Blood and Justice" (Sussco, 2007) and hundreds of articles. He also edits and publishes the inter-disciplinary journal, Mentalities/Mentalities.

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