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Author: Robert S. Wistrich
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2016-12-01
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0803296711
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"An exploration of the many aspects of the current surge in anti-Jewish and anti-Israel rhetoric and violence around the world"--
Author: Alvin H. Rosenfeld
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2019-01-09
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 025303874X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Seventeen essays by scholars examining the links between anti-Semitism and attitudes toward Israel in the current political climate. How and why have anti-Zionism and antisemitism become so radical and widespread? This timely and important volume argues convincingly that today’s inflamed rhetoric exceeds the boundaries of legitimate criticism of the policies and actions of the state of Israel and conflates anti-Zionism with antisemitism. The contributors give the dynamics of this process full theoretical, political, legal, and educational treatment and demonstrate how these forces operate in formal and informal political spheres as well as domestic and transnational spaces. They offer significant historical and global perspectives of the problem, including how Holocaust memory and meaning have been reconfigured and how a singular and distinct project of delegitimization of the Jewish state and its people has solidified. This intensive but extraordinarily rich contribution to the study of antisemitism stands out for its comprehensive overview of an issue that is both historical and strikingly timely.
Author: Jeffrey Herf
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-31
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1317983483
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Previously published as a special issue of The Journal of Israeli History, this book presents the reflections of historians from Israel, Europe, Canada and the United States concerning the similarities and differences between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism primarily in Europe and the Middle East. Spanning the past century, the essays explore the continuum of critique from early challenges to Zionism and they offer criteria to ascertain when criticism with particular policies has and has not coalesced into an "ism" of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. Including studies of England, France, Germany, Poland, the United States, Iran and Israel, the volume also examines the elements of continuity and break in European traditions of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism when they diffused to the Arab and Islamic. Essential course reading for students of religious history.
Author: Cary Nelson
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2019-06-01
Total Pages: 557
ISBN-13: 025304507X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Israel Denial is the first book to offer detailed analyses of the work faculty members have published—individually and collectively--in support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement; it contrasts their claims with options for promoting peace. The faculty discussed here have devoted a significant part of their professional lives to delegitimizing the Jewish state. While there are beliefs they hold in common—including the conviction that there is nothing good to say about Israel—they also develop distinctive arguments designed to recruit converts to their cause in novel ways. They do so both as writers and as teachers; Israel Denial is the first to give substantial attention to anti-Zionist pedagogy. No effort to understand the BDS movement’s impact on the academy and public policy can be complete without the kind of understanding this book offers. A co-publication of the Academic Engagement Network
Author: Rivka Yadlin
Publisher: Pergamon
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 154
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines hostile expressions towards Israel in Egypt of the 1980s. Focuses on the content and ideological context of these expressions, and their place in trends of thought in Egypt. Notes that the hostile attitudes are expressed as spontaneous public views and are not directed by the regime, and that there are new motifs, such as "the cultural assault on the Egyptian mind." Analyzes the writings of three trends: Nasserite pan-Arabism, the Islamic Left, and the Social Democrats of the establishment mainstream. Concludes that negation of Zionism and denial of Israel's right to exist is the current attitude in the Egyptian establishment. Moreover, Zionism and Judaism are intertwined in the writings. Anti-Zionism is thus inherently an expression of anti-Judaism, against Judaism both as culture and religion. Discusses recurrent motifs (e.g. the odium of the Jews, the sin of Jewish particularism, the Western aspect of Israel's culture), and the growing influence of traditional Islamic religiosity in Egypt.
Author: Robert S. Wistrich
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1990-06-18
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1349112623
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With its origins in a conference organized by the Institute of Jewish Affairs in London, this book asks if a common denominator can be found between the anti-Semitism that has existed through the ages and more contemporary forms of anti-Zionism.
Author: Shlomo Sharan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-02-06
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1351524828
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Crossovers compares Jewish anti-Zionism and Palestinian anti-Semitism from political and philosophical points of view. The authors' goal is to expose what is unique about these phenomena, and what they share, so that both ideologies and their practical impact can be better understood. The authors identify a symbiotic relationship between anti-Semitic Palestinian doctrines and those Jews who are anti-Zionists. There has been a great deal of research on these as separate phenomena, but there has thus far been no research that has noted their similarities. Palestinian anti- Semitism and Jewish anti-Zionism may stem from different sources, but they have similar consequences. Palestinian views derive from religious Islamic as well as nationalist- Arab roots, while the views of anti-Zionist Jews grew out of an ideological-Marxist-Trotskyite background. But both share a common goal: the destruction of the Jewish-Zionist nation, and a common strategy, to achieve a bi-national state as a first stage in the march to this goal. Jewish history is replete with examples of how Jews have ignored repeated threats and acts of violence against them. That characteristic of Jews reflects their Messianic belief, but it lacks a basis in history. That belief has resisted change even in the face of threats that were obvious and that have endangered Jewish lives in the past. Contemporary anti-Zionists share this optimistic outlook. Paradoxically, while the Jewish-Zionist State of Israel contends in public that another Holocaust will not happen and is patently impossible, the lesson of recent Jewish history is that a Holocaust can happen again. This work is unrelenting in its criticisms and tough minded in its assessments of the future. It merits careful, serious reading.
Author: Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu
Publisher:
Published: 1900
Total Pages: 424
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert S. Wistrich
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 0803208693
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Published and distributed for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism During the sixty years between the founding of Bismarck’s German Empire and Hitler’s rise to power, German-speaking Jews left a profound mark on Central Europe and on twentieth-century culture as a whole. How would the modern world look today without Einstein, Freud, or Marx? Without Mahler, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein, or Kafka? Without a whole galaxy of other outstanding Jewish scientists, poets, playwrights, composers, critics, historians, sociologists, psychoanalysts, jurists, and philosophers? How was it possible that this vibrant period in Central European cultural history collapsed into the horror and mass murder of the Nazi Holocaust? Was there some connection between the dazzling achievements of these Jews and the ferocity of the German backlash? Robert S. Wistrich’s Laboratory for World Destruction is a bold and penetrating study of the fateful symbiosis between Germans and Jews in Central Europe, which culminated in the tragic denouement of the Holocaust. Wistrich shows that the seeds of the catastrophe were already sown in the Hapsburg Empire, which would become, in Karl Kraus’s words, “an experimental station in the destruction of the world.” Featured are incisive chapters on Freud, Herzl, Lueger, Kraus, Nordau, Nietzsche, and Hitler, along with a sweeping panorama of the golden age of Central European Jewry before the lights went out in Europe.
