Did Ayn Rand ever say anything about Jews or anti-Semitism?

Ayn Rand said very little about Jews or Judaism or anti-Semitism, even though she was Jewish: her name was Alyssa Rosenbaum before she emigrated to the USA and became Ayn Rand. She identified herself as an atheist, and thus said nothing in public about being Jewish. read more

For decades, Jews who didn’t possess a trade or profession useful to the czar were barred from St. Petersburg; in most cases, unqualified Jews couldn’t even visit for a night. By law, Jews made up no more than 2 percent of the city’s population, and residency papers had to be renewed each year. Jews often changed their names to avoid detection. read more

At 12, Rand watched Bolshevik soldiers march in and take her father’s pharmacy. He would never really work again, and she would spend her adulthood railing, from across the world, against anyone who used force to “loot and mooch” from productive businessmen. read more