I. Oppenheim says that if we do anything to limit distribution of the book will backfire. I say:
Right. We should never make any kind of waves. We should just sit back and let Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and all the other book review sources recommend the book and hope that it goes away anyway. We can also remove the mezuzahs from our doorposts because they might cause people who notice them to act in anti-Semitic ways. A big media campaign to have the book withdrawn from publication might have the result you say. Those kinds of campaigns are filled with rhetoric and vitriol and very little fact, so people have to buy the book to find out what it says. Publishing thoughtful, objective reviews that point out the weaknesses is very, very different. When the review journals are negative, people choose to spend their limited book budgets in other places. There's really no comparison at all. =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
