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As to whether his Jewish identity
has been affected by his work on this
project, he says, "I felt myself more
and more feeling a kind of identifica-
tion with the Jewish people for their
persistence, their struggle, what
they've endured and that they sur-
vived. I probably have come to more
of a sense of being part of this amaz-
ing people."
Rosenbaum, now in his early 50s,
says that he's long been drawn to
Jewish thinkers, writers, and visionar-
ies, and he's also drawn to "this great
Jewish impulse to question the world,
to look at the world as a text to be
unrolled, examined and explicated."
For many years, he's been "obsessed"
with figures like Spinoza, Kafka and
Singer.
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"What's developed in the course of
writing this is maybe a sense of tragic
solidarity with what my people have
gone through. It's not that I have suf-
fered. I have come to feel that all of
the victims and survivors are part of
my extended family."
Underlying the many questions
about Hitler is the debate over his
exceptionalism, whether Hitler is on a
"continuum" with other mass murder-
ers, on the extreme end of a spectrum
of human nature shared by all mem-
bers of society. Rosenbaum ponders
whether there's a potential Hitler
within all people, or whether he's "off
the grid," beyond any continuum.
For his next book, he's considering
a further exploration of the exception-
alism question, with regard to the
genius of William Shakespeare, a
writer Rosenbaum has been reading
since his days as an English major at
Yale. "Is he just a great writer, on the
same continuum as others, or does his
work transcend the work of other
writers?" Rosenbaum asks. "If I'm
going to spend another 10 years on
something, I won't be locked up in a
room with Hitler. It will be with
someone who's given the world great
pleasure."
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