The Politics Of Antisemitic Prejudice

Author : Richard Mitten
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000304647
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics Of Antisemitic Prejudice written by Richard Mitten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked, "I think the good in Austria is particularly difficult to understand. In a certain sense it is more subtle than all the rest, and its truth is never on the side of probability." For forty years official Austria, christened by the Allies as Hitler's first "victim," wagered that the sedulously cultivated visions of cherubic choir boys, Lippizaner horses, and Mozartkugels could seduce the world into ignoring another truth about Austria, that of Wehrmacht soldiers, antisemitic slurs, and cheering crowds on Heldenplatz. The debate surrounding Kurt Waldheim dashed such "improbable" illusions permanently. Richard Mitten seeks to discover the "truth" behind the Waldheim controversy in its historical and political context. Whereas other books have focused on Waldheim's personal biography, Mitten argues that the essential point in the Waldheim affair is not Waldheim himself but the political and cultural climate that made his election possible. Mitten examines Waldheim's 1986 presidential election campaign, which both elicited and profited from profound chauvinistic and antisemitic resentments. The Politics of Antisemitic Prejudice is also the first book in English to study the dynamics of the Waldheim affair in the Austrian and American media. The author demonstrates how mistaken perceptions led both Waldheim's supporters and his critics to press their nearly diametrically opposed convictions with an identical moral vocabulary. Finally, Mitten re-examines the debate over Waldheim's criminality and suggests that the former UN Secretary General has come to stand as the symbol of a more general postwar unwillingness or inability to adequately confront the implications of the Nazi abomination.

Author : Jacob Katz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674325074
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Prejudice to Destruction written by Jacob Katz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katz here presents a major reinterpretation of modern anti-Semitism, revising the prevalent thesis that medieval and modern animosities against Jews were fundamentally different.

Author : Paul E Grosser
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150407730X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anti-Semitism written by Paul E Grosser and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the long history of hatred Jews have endured at the hands of the Catholic Church from ancient Rome to the twentieth century. Anti-Semitism is one of the oldest, most persistent, and most virulent forms of hatred to plague the world. The Holocaust of World War II was the bitter fruit of centuries of prejudice passed down in Christian teachings and perceptions about the Jewish people. In this book, Paul E. Grosser and Edwin G. Haplerin present a historical analysis of anti-Semitism from the Roman Empire, through the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Reformation, and the twentieth century. Through their analysis, Grosser and Halperin reveal a pattern. They shed light on how, where, and when anti-Semitism has spread; how it is temporarily brought under control; and how it suddenly, in some far part of the world, becomes endemic again. The authors provide an illuminating survey of the causes of anti-Semitism and share theories of how the Jews have been able to survive. In conclusion, they offer some hope for the future.

Author : András Kovács
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900419195X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stranger at Hand (paperback) written by András Kovács and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing the results of several sociological surveys in post-communist Hungary, this book offers insight into the nature and social background of one of the most disturbing phenomena in a newly established European democracy: antisemitism.

Author : Bernard Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039324556X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semites and Anti-Semites: An Inquiry into Conflict and Prejudice written by Bernard Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999-05-17 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A powerful book. It combines the coolness of scholarship with conclusions that cannot fail to engage the passions."—Saul Bellow The Arab-Israeli conflict has unsettled the Middle East for over half a century. This conflict is primarily political, a clash between states and peoples over territory and history. But it is also a conflict that has affected and been affected by prejudice. For a long time this was simply the "normal" prejudice between neighboring people of different religions and ethnic origins. In the present age, however, hostility toward Israel and its people has taken the form of anti-Semitism-a pernicious world view that goes beyond prejudice and ascribes to Jews a quality of cosmic evil. First published in the 1980s to universal acclaim, Semites and Anti-Semites traces the development of anti-Semitism from its beginnings as a poison in the bloodstream of Christianity to its modern entrance into mainstream Islam. Bernard Lewis, one of the world's foremost scholars of the Middle East, takes us through the history of the Semitic peoples to the emergence of the Jews and their virulent enemies, and dissects the region's recent tragic developments in a moving new afterword. "A powerful and important work, beautifully written and edited, and based on a range of erudition (in the best sense) that few others, if any, could command."—George Kennan

Author : Gertrude Jaeger Selznick
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tenacity of Prejudice written by Gertrude Jaeger Selznick and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1979-11-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is difficult to overstate the impact that Michael Jackson has had upon popular culture. This collection runs in chronological order and spans the illustrious career from the self-proclaimed King of Pop. Celebrate Jackson's brilliance as a vocal performer and songwriter, and get chance to get stuck into three iconic songs - ABC, I'll Be There and Bille Jean - arranged here for soprano and alto voices with straightforward piano accompaniment designed to support the vocal lines. If you are looking for easy and rewarding repertoire for your beginner choir, then you need look no further than Faber Music's Choral Basics, the perfect series for singers of all ages.

Author : Harold Earl Quinley
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412817356
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anti-Semitism in America written by Harold Earl Quinley and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1979 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Periodic outbreaks of anti-Jewish hostility testify to the continuing presence of anti-Semitism in America. Based on the most extensive research ever conducted on the subject, Anti-Semitism in America, now in a new paperback edition, provides us with the often surprising facts about the enduring form of bigotry and sheds new light on the nature of prejudice in general. The authors draw their conclusions from a specially designed nationwide survey on anti-Semitism conducted by the Survey Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, and by other public opinion polls.

Author : Bari Weiss
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0593136055
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Fight Anti-Semitism written by Bari Weiss and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • The prescient founder of The Free Press delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in this country—and explains what we can do to defeat it. “A praiseworthy and concise brief against modern-day anti-Semitism.”—The New York Times On October 27, 2018, eleven Jews were gunned down as they prayed at their synagogue in Pittsburgh. It was the deadliest attack on Jews in American history. For most Americans, the massacre at Tree of Life, the synagogue where Bari Weiss became a bat mitzvah, came as a shock. But anti-Semitism is the oldest hatred, commonplace across the Middle East and on the rise for years in Europe. So that terrible morning in Pittsburgh, as well as the continued surge of hate crimes against Jews in cities and towns across the country, raise a question Americans cannot avoid: Could it happen here? This book is Weiss’s answer. Like many, Weiss long believed this country could escape the rising tide of anti-Semitism. With its promise of free speech and religion, its insistence that all people are created equal, its tolerance for difference, and its emphasis on shared ideals rather than bloodlines, America has been, even with all its flaws, a new Jerusalem for the Jewish people. But now the luckiest Jews in history are beginning to face a three-headed dragon known all too well to Jews of other times and places: the physical fear of violent assault, the moral fear of ideological vilification, and the political fear of resurgent fascism and populism. No longer the exclusive province of the far right, the far left, and assorted religious bigots, anti-Semitism now finds a home in identity politics as well as the reaction against identity politics, in the renewal of America First isolationism and the rise of one-world socialism, and in the spread of Islamist ideas into unlikely places. A hatred that was, until recently, reliably taboo is migrating toward the mainstream, amplified by social media and a culture of conspiracy that threatens us all. Weiss is one of our most provocative writers, and her cri de coeur makes a powerful case for renewing Jewish and American values in this uncertain moment. Not just for the sake of America’s Jews, but for the sake of America.

Author : Joseph W. Bendersky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0465012191
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Threat written by Joseph W. Bendersky and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-07 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very little has been written about America's own history of anti-Semitism. In this shocking book, the first documented examination of anti-Semitism in an American governmental institution, Joseph Bendersky shows that such racism permeated the highest ranks of the U.S. military throughout the past century, having a very real effect on policy decisions. Through ten years of research in more than thirty-five archives, the author uncovered irrefutable evidence of endemic and virulent anti-Semitism throughout the Army Corps from the turn of the century right up to the 1970s. This fully developed and clearly articulated perspective had a direct effect on policy discussions and decisions, affecting such matters as immigration, refugees, military strategy, and the establishment of Israel. Written with novelistic intensity and attention to intriguing detail, The "Jewish Threat" forces us to revise some of our cherished notions about our country and its most revered leaders.

Author : Antony Robin Jeremy Kushner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Persistence of Prejudice written by Antony Robin Jeremy Kushner and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the largely ambivalent attitudes towards Jews evinced by the general populace and the government in Britain. Analyzes the hostility that did occur in the context of a society undergoing profound social, economic, and political change. States that the clearest features of modern British antisemitism are that Jews are perceived firstly as a foreign group and secondly as a malevolent power in society. Discusses British fascist organizations, the strongest of which was the British Union of Fascists led by Oswald Mosley; the evacuation experiences of London's Jews; the extent of the debate on the "Jewish question" in all levels of society; widespread economic and social prejudices; the negative images of the Jew; the attitudes of the government, which refused to admit the existence of antisemitism and denied that the Jews were a separate entity; and the response of pro-Jewish or anti-antisemitic forces.