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Emily Tamkin: "The Influence of Soros" & The Future of Jewish America

A Conversation with journalist & U.S. editor for the New Statesman Emily Tamkin on April 20, 2021 | As part of the series "Transatlantic Tuesday" The frightening but renewed rise of extreme anti-Semitism in America and around the world - specifically, the neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville, Virginia, whose horrific slogan was "The Jews will not replace us!" - has not only, by its own account, led very directly to the candidacy of new U.S. President Joe Biden for the White House. American society as a whole - and its Jewish citizens - must come to terms with the political legacy of the Trump years, in which the top Republican was able to present himself as Israel's closest ally and had the U.S. Embassy moved to Jerusalem, but at home gave the radical anti-Semitic forces in his own camp a free hand. Far-right terrorist attacks like the one on a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 were soon repeated in Germany. In the rhetoric of authoritarian politicians and their constituencies, Jewish-American billionaire George Soros, an 89-year-old philanthropist with Hungarian roots, became the specter of shrill conspiracy theories. Emily Tamkin, senior U.S. editor of the weekly magazine "The New Statesman" and host of its podcast World Review, not only follows American (foreign) policy and society for the paper, but, as a Jewish American, always has her community's future in mind: With her hot-off-the-press non-fiction book "The Influence Of Soros: Politics, Power, And The Struggle For An Open Society", she also presents the new standard work on the uniquely eventful life of the U.S. major investor and his late second "career" as the ultimate bogeyman and worst bogeyman of the reactionary right. Tamkin has previously reported for "Foreign Policy", "BuzzFeed News", "The New Republic", "Politico", "The Economist", and the "Washington Post", among others. In New Delhi, India, the author worked as a fellow at the Council On Foreign Relations. Before that, she lived in Bremen, Germany, as a Fulbright scholar. Currently in Washington, D.C., Tamkin is writing her next book - "Bad Jews" - which explores the conflicted, complex history and both tradition-conscious and highly dynamic identity of Jewish America.