books about: antisemitism     books:       Antisemitism: A Specific Phenomenon: Holocaust Trivialization - Islamism - Post-colonial and Cosmopolitan ... Dr. Clemens Heni Edition Critic, 2012 This book analyzes the specifics of antisemitism and Jew-hatred in the 21st century. It includes a groundbreaking assessment of the political leanings of many prominent scholars in the field. Today's antisemitism extends far beyond right-wing circles and can be found among liberals, leftists, anti-racist communities, Islamists, and post-colonial scholars in the Western world. Using English and German sources, the author demonstrates the need ...             Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction Steven Beller Oxford University Press, 2007 Anti-Semitism has been a chillingly persistent presence throughout the last millennium, culminating in modern times in the horror of the Final Solution. This Very Short Introduction examines and untangles the various strands of anti-Semitism seen throughout history, revealing why hatred of the Jews appears to be so persistent through time. Steven Beller illuminates the history of the phenomenon: from medieval religious conflict, to the growth ...             The Holocaust, the Church, and the Law of Unintended Consequences: How Christian Anti-Judaism Spawned Nazi ... Anthony J. Sciolino iUniverse, 2012 The image of Jews as "God-killers" and their refusal to convert to Christianity has fueled a long tradition of Christian intolerance, hatred, and violence. It is no surprise, then, that when Adolf Hitler advocated the elimination of Jews, he found willing allies within the Catholic Church and Christianity itself. In this study, author Anthony J. Sciolino, himself a Catholic, cuts into the heart of why the Catholic Church and Christianity as a ...             Antisemitism: A History Albert S. Lindemann, Richard S. Levy Oxford University Press, USA, 2010 Antisemitism: A History offers a readable overview of a daunting topic, describing and analyzing the hatred that Jews have faced from ancient times to the present. The essays contained in this volume provide an ideal introduction to the history and nature of antisemitism, stressing readability, balance, and thematic coherence, while trying to gain some distance from the polemics and apologetics that so often cloud the subject. Chapters have ...             Why the Jews?: The Reason for Antisemitism Dennis Prager, Joseph Telushkin Touchstone, 2003 From the bestselling authors of The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism comes a completely revised and updated edition of a modern classic that reflects the dangerous rise in antisemitism during the twenty-first century. The very word Jew continues to arouse passions as does no other religious, national, or political name. Why have Jews been the object of the most enduring and universal hatred in history? Why did Hitler consider ...             "The Sons of Pigs and Apes": Muslim Antisemitism and the Conspiracy of Silence Neil J. Kressel Potomac Books Inc., 2012 From the 1950s through the 1990s, antisemitism everywhere seemed to be on the wane. But as Neil Kressel documents in this startling book, the Muslim world has resurrected in recent decades almost every diatribe that more than two millennia of European hostility produced against the Jews, and it has introduced many homegrown and novel modes of attack. Though it is impossible to determine precisely how many of the world’s 1.2 billion Muslims ...             The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day Walter Laqueur Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 For thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London--the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism--Walter Laqueur here offers both a comprehensive history of anti-Semitism as well as an illuminating look at the newest wave of this phenomenon. Laqueur begins with an invaluable historical account of this pernicious problem, tracing the evolution from a predominantly religious anti-Semitism--stretching back to the middle ...             Zionism and Anti-Semitism Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil, 2011 This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.             Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition David Nirenberg W. W. Norton & Company, 2013 A powerful history that shows anti-Judaism to be a central way of thinking in the Western tradition. This incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational anti-Judaism is to the history of the West. Questions of how we are Jewish and, more critically, how and why we are not have been churning within ...             A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism Phyllis Goldstein Facing History and Ourselves, 2011 A Convenient Hatred chronicles a very particular hatred through powerful stories that allow readers to see themselves in the tarnished mirror of history. It raises important questions about the consequences of our assumptions and beliefs and the ways we, as individuals and as members of a society, make distinctions between "us" and "them," right and wrong, good and evil. These questions are both universal and particular.             Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz Jan Gross Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007 Poland suffered an exceedingly brutal Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Close to five million Polish citizens lost their lives as a result. More than half the casualties were Polish Jews. Thus, the second largest Jewish community in the world–only American Jewry numbered more than the three and a half million Polish Jews at the time–was wiped out. Over 90 percent of its members were killed in the Holocaust. And yet, despite this ...             Who Killed Jesus?: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus John Dominic Crossan HarperOne, 1996 The death of Jesus is one of the most hotly debated questions in Christianity today. In his massive and highly publicized The Death of the Messiah , Raymond Brown -- while clearly rejecting anti-Semitism -- never questions the essential historicity of the passion stories. Yet it is these stories, in which the Jews decide Jesus' execution, that have fueled centuries of Christian anti-Semitism. Now, in his most controversial book, John Dominic ...             Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred Robert Solomon Wistrich Schocken, 1994 The author of The Jews in Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph employs his profound knowledge of history in a probing country-by-country look at antisemitism, from its beginnings to its recent reemergence in Europe.             The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews (Jewish Encounters) David Mamet Schocken, 2009 David Mamet's interest in anti-Semitism is not limited to the modern face of an ancient hatred but encompasses as well the ways in which many Jews have internalized that hatred. Using the metaphor of the Wicked Son at the Passover seder (the child who asks, "What does this story mean to you?") Mamet confronts what he sees as an insidious predilection among some Jews to exclude themselves from the equation and to seek truth and meaning ...             Antisemitism: Part One of The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt Mariner Books, 1968 The first volume of Arendt’s celebrated three-part study of the philosophical origins of the totalitarian mind. This volume focuses on the rise of antisemitism in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Index.             The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism Daniel Jonah Goldhagen Little, Brown and Company, 2013 A groundbreaking--and terrifying--examination of the widespread resurgence of antisemitism in the 21 st century, by the prize-winning and #1 internationally bestselling author of Hitler's Willing Executioners . Antisemitism never went away, but since the turn of the century it has multiplied beyond what anyone would have predicted. It is openly spread by intellectuals, politicians and religious leaders in Europe, Asia, the Arab world, ...             Anti-Semitism on the Campus: Past and Present (Anti-Semitism in America) Academic Studies Press, 2010 Antisemitism on the Campus: Past and Present, edited by Eunice G. Pollack, is the first entry of a multidisciplinary series on antisemitism in America to be published by Academic Studies Press. In this volume, eighteen leading scholars explore the roots and manifestations of antisemitism and anti-Zionism at American, British, and Canadian colleges and universities over the course of the twentieth century and the responses to such biases. Topics ...             Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution (Two Vol. Set) ABC-CLIO, 2005             Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives (Studies in Antisemitism) Indiana University Press, 2013 Dating back millennia, antisemitism has been called "the longest hatred." Thought to be vanquished after the horrors of the Holocaust, in recent decades it has once again become a disturbing presence in many parts of the world. Resurgent Antisemitism presents original research that elucidates the social, intellectual, and ideological roots of the "new" antisemitism and the place it has come to occupy in the public sphere. By exploring the ...             Reflections On Anti-Semitism Alain Badiou, Eric Hazan, ... Verso, 2013 Since the beginning of the War on Terror, Israel has become increasingly salient to imperial strategy and ever more aggressive in its policies toward the Palestinians. In this context, a key ideological weapon is the cynical accusation of "anti-Semitism." For historical reasons, this has been deployed most forcefully in France, and Alain Badiou and Eric Hazan caustically demolish the "anti-Semitism is everywhere" allegation, used to bludgeon ...              search for books anti-judaism, anti-semitism, anti-zionism, antisemitism, auschwitz, christian, consequences, conspiracy, convenient, cosmopolitan, encounters, encyclopedia, gottheil, historical, holocaust, introduction, islamism, persecution, perspectives, phenomenon, post-colonial, prejudice, reflections, resurgent, self-hatred, specific, totalitarianism, tradition, trivialization, unintended books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen apparel: LOVEsick Blue Cloud Destroyed Skinny Jeans home  impressum - about us