Was your favorite kid’s book author a raging antisemite? Probably!

Was your favorite kid’s book author a raging antisemite? Probably!

In the summer of 1983, long before “cancel culture,” the legendary children’s novelist Roald Dahl published a book review widely derided as antisemitic. A public kerfuffle ensued; one prominent figure called Dahl’s review “the most disgraceful thing to be written in the English language for a very long time.” The author, fresh off the success of “The BFG” and about to publish “The Witches,” his name being bandied about for a knighthood, seemed a…