NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will have a book out next winter that draws in part upon his own life and religious faith for what he calls a 鈥渨arning鈥� about antisemitism.
Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, announced Wednesday that Schumer's 鈥淎ntisemitism in America鈥� will be released Feb. 18. The 73-year-old Schumer, a Democrat from New York, will trace his journey from Brooklyn in the 1960s to Harvard in the '70s to his decades in Washington, including the Jan. 6 siege in 2021. Schumer also will write about the recent wave of conspiracy theories about Jews and attacks against synagogues and Jewish students.
鈥淚f America fails to understand the context and history of antisemitism, if America鈥檚 darker impulses ultimately overwhelm its better angels, an age-old truth will prove true once again: that antisemitism inevitably leads to violence against Jews and a rise in bigotry in our society at large. Jewish Americans never thought it could happen here in America,鈥� he said in a statement. "Now, for the first time, they鈥檙e worried it could. As the Irish writer Conor Cruise O鈥橞rien once said, 鈥榓ntisemitism is a light sleeper.鈥欌��
Schumer previously wrote, with Daniel Squadron, 鈥淧ositively American: Winning Back the Middle Class One Family at a Time,鈥� which came out in 2007.
Hillel Italie, The Associated Press
