"Beating up Jews (by Jew I mean anyone with a Jew for a grandparent, even one!) won’t help, I’m sure, that’s just going around in circles, it’s a joke, you’re only beating around the bush if you don’t grab them by the strings [tefillins], if you don’t strangle them with them."
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From a review of the original French editions of Celine's antisemitiic writings, also including Bagatelles pour un massacre (Trifles for a Massacre, 1937) and L'École des cadavres (The School of Corpses, 1938).
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