I am very grateful to Merle Molofsky for her masterful summary of the papers in this issue. I am also grateful to David Lotto, who proposed the subject and got it started with his response to my paper. I am sure everyone will be impressed with the depth of the scholarship of these contributions and their breadth as well. Jew hatred is not a thing of the past. It is very much in the present, and a concerted effort needs to be made to prevent it from having a future.

Anti-Semitism caused Freud to identify more as a Jew, as in his response to Peter Vierek's father. On the other hand, anti-Semitism made Heinz Kohut deny that he was a Jew, unlike Freud. Freud, as is well known, was very concerned that psychoanalysis should not be considered a Jewish science. On the other hand, it is a fact that his first 18 disciples all were Jews. Jones and Jung were the first non-Jews to take up psychoanalysis. And not only were the original 18 all Jews, they, their parents, or grandparents, were all from Galicia.

We need to consider why Galicia was the cradle of psychoanalysis. It couldn't have been the water! I believe it had to do with the clash of ideologic sensibilities: Hasidism emotionality, Misnagedim intellectuality, Haskalah rebelliousness, and Kabbalah mysticism. Some may question whether there is a mystical component in psychoanalysis, but it is the fact that Freud maintained that if he had to do it over again, he would've studied thought transfer rather than psychoanalysis. We look forward to the responses to these contributions that we will add after the issue is launched, and may be included in the book that will follow.