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4 paź 2018 · This article asks what historians might have to learn from recent trends in literary scholarship and takes the example of anti-Semitism in literature as a case study.
5 maj 2022 · Felsenstein, F., Anti-Semitic Stereotypes: A Paradigm of Otherness in English Popular Culture, 1660–1830 (Baltimore, MD, 1995). This heavily researched book provides a contextual overview of English Jew-hatred from the restoration to the romantic period.
Such definitions treat antisemitism as distinguishable only in its objects from other forms of discrimination such as anti-black racism or anti-Hispanic ethnocentricity, rather than identifying a peculiar characteristic of the hatred of Jews.
the modern French anti-Semite simplifies the fearful complex-ities of his life by localizing all threats in the Jew. He can then extirpate his doubts and fears by execrating the Jew. Sartre's anti-Semite, fearing a rational encounter with the human con-dition, seeks to denigrate intellect and reason. He therefore
In their recently survey of contemporary antisemitism, Forster and Epstein state: "From to 'shyster,' words and images have been used and invented to depict Jews canny, crafty, usurious, power-mad, conspiratorial, unassimilable, pushy, aggressive, stubborn, weak, greedy."'
20 sie 2015 · Racial definitions of anti-Semitism are often tied to theories of how modernity created conditions uniquely favorable to the emergence of genocidal anti-Jewish hatred. These definitions provide numerous theoretical and practical advantages, and they give clarity to certain aspects of anti-Semitism that are otherwise typically misunderstood.
4 paź 2018 · In the decades after 1945, the meanings of anti-Semitism continued to accumulate as Jewish interests took shape within new political contexts. Campaigns on behalf of Jews in the Soviet Union provide just one illustration of how anti-Semitism continued to be defined and made intelligible by the rights it despoiled.
