Antisemitism and Modernity

Antisemitism and Modernity
Author: Hyam Maccoby
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2006
Genre: Antisemitism
ISBN: 041531173X

Maccoby traces the topical discussion of the origins of anti-Semitism, especially its development in the modern world.

Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity

Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity
Author: Charles Asher Small
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2013-11-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004265562

This volume contains a selection of essays based on papers presented at a conference organized at Yale University and hosted by the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) and the International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA), entitled “Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity.” The essays are written by scholars from a wide array of disciplines, intellectual backgrounds, and perspectives, and address the conference’s two inter-related areas of focus: global antisemitism and the crisis of modernity currently affecting the core elements of Western society and civilization. Rather than treating antisemitism merely as an historical phenomenon, the authors place it squarely in the contemporary context. As a result, this volume also provides important insights into the ideologies, processes, and developments that give rise to prejudice in the contemporary global context. This thought-provoking collection will be of interest to students and scholars of antisemitism and discrimination, as well as to scholars and readers from other fields.

Antisemitism

Antisemitism
Author: Steven Beller
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2015
Genre: Antisemitism
ISBN: 0198724837

Antisemitism has been a persistent presence throughout the last millennium, culminating in the dark apogee of the Holocaust. Steven Beller examines and untangles the history of the phenomenon - from medieval religious conflict, to its growth as a political and ideological movement in the 19th century, and 'new' antisemitism today.

Confronting Antisemitism in Modern Media, the Legal and Political Worlds

Confronting Antisemitism in Modern Media, the Legal and Political Worlds
Author: Armin Lange
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2021-05-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110672030

This volume documents the transformation of age-old antisemitic stereotypes into a new form of discrimination, often called "New Antisemitism" or "Antisemitism 2.0." Manifestations of antisemitism in political, legal, media and other contexts are reflected on theoretically and contemporary developments are analyzed with a special focus on online hatred. The volume points to the need for a globally coordinated approach on the political and legal levels, as well as with regard to the modern media, to effectively combat modern antisemitism.

The End of Jewish Modernity

The End of Jewish Modernity
Author: Enzo Traverso
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Antisemitism
ISBN: 9780745336664

A provocative take on Jewish history, explaining the metamorphoses ofmainstream Jewish culture and politics.

Nationalism & Antisemitism in Modern Europe, 1815-1945

Nationalism & Antisemitism in Modern Europe, 1815-1945
Author: S. Almog
Publisher: Pergamon
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN:

This latest volume in the Studies in Antisemitism Series looks at the interaction between nationalism and antisemitism in post-Napoleonic Europe. Using a framework of major historical events for the period 1815-1945, Shmuel Almog traces the radicalization of national ideology in these years and its relationship to the rise of political antisemitism. Nationalism in early nineteenth-century Europe developed originally as a liberal-democratic philosophy in opposition to existing political, social and economic structures. This coincided with a period of increasing integration of the Jewish minority into mainstream European life, particularly in economic spheres. By the 1870s, however, the continued growth of nationalist aspirations, increasingly allied to an imperialist, conservative and militaristic culture, led to a rise in discord between nations and a concomitant increase in the importance of national peculiarities. This was to have a profound effect on the Jewish communities in Europe, with the Jews being viewed as an alien and even dangerous force within the newly-created nation-states. The book argues that growing extremism in nationalist attitudes afforded a suitable ideological and social background for antisemitic activity, as manifested by calls for discriminatory legislation against Jews, the pogroms of Eastern Europe and, ultimately, the Nazi Holocaust. This analysis is substantiated and reinforced by a series of annotated documents and illustrations. This book is a clear account of the development of one of the key elements of antisemitic ideology in this important period of European history.

Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity

Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity
Author: Karen Underhill
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2024-06-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253057299

In the 1930s, through the prose of Bruno Schulz (1892–1942), the Polish language became the linguistic raw material for a profound exploration of the modern Jewish experience. Rather than turning away from the language like many of his Galician Jewish colleagues who would choose to write in Yiddish, Schulz used the Polish language to explore his own and his generation's relationship to East European Jewish exegetical tradition, and to deepen his reflection on golus or exile as a condition not only of the individual and of the Jewish community, but of language itself, and of matter. Drawing on new archival discoveries, this study explores Schulz's diasporic Jewish modernism as an example of the creative and also transient poetic forms that emerged on formerly Habsburg territory, at the historical juncture between empire and nation-state.

Comprehending and Confronting Antisemitism

Comprehending and Confronting Antisemitism
Author: Armin Lange
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 618
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110618591

This volume provides a compendium of the history of and discourse about antisemitism - both as a unique cultural and religious category. Antisemitic stereotypes function as religious symbols that express and transmit a belief system of Jew-hatred, which are stored in the cultural and religious memories of the Western and Muslim worlds, migrating freely between Christian, Muslim and other religious symbolic systems.

The Modernity of Others

The Modernity of Others
Author: Ari Joskowicz
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2013-11-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0804788405

The most prominent story of nineteenth-century German and French Jewry has focused on Jewish adoption of liberal middle-class values. The Modernity of Others points to an equally powerful but largely unexplored aspect of modern Jewish history: the extent to which German and French Jews sought to become modern by criticizing the anti-modern positions of the Catholic Church. Drawing attention to the pervasiveness of anti-Catholic anticlericalism among Jewish thinkers and activists from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, the book turns the master narrative of Western and Central European Jewish history on its head. From the moment in which Jews began to enter the fray of modern European politics, they found that Catholicism served as a convenient foil that helped them define what it meant to be a good citizen, to practice a respectable religion, and to have a healthy family life. Throughout the long nineteenth century, myriad Jewish intellectuals, politicians, and activists employed anti-Catholic tropes wherever questions of political and national belonging were at stake: in theoretical treatises, parliamentary speeches, newspaper debates, the founding moments of the Reform movement, and campaigns against antisemitism.