Letter from Richard Sherman to The New Yorker magazine, Oct 12,'25 confronting Judith Thurman's claim that Gertrude Stein didn't take antisemitism seriously & pointing out the role of antisemitic Jews

Dear Letter to the Editor:

Judith Thurman myopically writes that Gertrude Stein " never seems to have taken antisemitism too seriously".  ("Say It Again", The New Yorker, October 6, 2025, page 66).

Huh?

Gertrude Stein translated twelve speeches of the Nazi loving Petain and brought them to America trying to peddle this antisemitic drivel  to American publishers -- who not surprisingly rejected them.

"Not take antisemitism  too seriously". Are you kidding, Judith?

If Gertrude Stein had lived past 1946 she would have charged with collaboration with the Petain/Nazi government  by France. Historian Ben M. Freeman has recently described that Jews like Gertrude Stein internalize Jew hatred.( " The Jews. An Indigenous People. Ben M. Freeman, 2025)  "Not take antisemitism too seriously" is a perverse euphemism that  obfuscates Gertrude Stein's  internalization of Jew hatred which freed her to collaborate with the Petain/Nazi government.

Unfortunately today many Jews in the media, politics and academia emulate Gertrude Stein in internalizing their Jew hatred.

Richard Sherman, Florida