I agree, in spite of the following incident, which occured several years ago.
I was standing in the check-out line at a local public library. In front of me were several young neo-Nazis/skinhead 'wannabees,' who were waiting to check out close to a dozen books on Hitler. While waiting in line, they directed several anti-semitic slurs at me and the situation nearly came to blows (I remember fearing for my saftey as I exited the library and headed for my car). Did that experience cause me to doubt the sagacity of collecting such material (these were biographies, after all, and not propaganda), considering how it was apparently being used? You bet, but ultimately, I concluded, having them is better than not. God bless America and the 1st amendment, ;-) Shabbat Shalom, Glenn Ferdman >Libraries _must_ have works like "Mein Kampf",however hateful. Ignorance is >dangerous, especially that of our own history. And now that I think of it, >some Jewish library had better be collecting the current hatred tracts and >speeches of the Palestinians and of Muslim preachers, or we wouldn't know >about or be able prove their existence. ========================================================================== HaSafran - The Electronic Forum of the Association of Jewish Libraries Submissions for HaSafran, 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/
