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Defending My Enemy By Aryeh Neier Dutton, 182 pp., $9.95 Aryeh Neier was Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union from his 33rd to his 41st year. He postponed his precocious retirement by a year in order to handle one of the most publicized and heated cases in the ACLU’s stormy history: the so-called Skokie case.

For Neier the ironies abound. He was born of Jewish parents in Berlin in 1937; his immediate family escaped just in time to avoid what happened to most of their relatives. Many Jews have accused him of disloyalty for his effort on behalf of Nazis here.

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Defending My Enemy By Aryeh Neier Dutton, 182 pp., $9.95 Aryeh Neier was Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union from his 33rd to his 41st year. He postponed his precocious retirement by a year in order to handle one of the most publicized and heated cases in the ACLU’s stormy history: the so-called Skokie case.

For Neier the ironies abound. He was born of Jewish parents in Berlin in 1937; his immediate family escaped just in time to avoid what happened to most of their relatives. Many Jews have accused him of disloyalty for his effort on behalf of Nazis here.