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Author: Bernard Glassman
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2017-12-01
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 0814343538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnti-Semitic sentiments are seen here as reflecting deep-seated, irrational responses to the Jewish people, rooted in the teachings of the church and exploited by men who needed an outlet for religious, social, and economic frustrations.
Author: Frank Felsenstein
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1999-03-19
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780801861796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work focuses on English cultural attitudes toward Jews from roughly 1660 to 1830. Frank Felsenstein describes the persistence through the period of certain negative biases that, in many cases, can be traced back at least to the late Middle Ages
Author: Abraham H. Foxman
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2010-11-09
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0230112250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the wake of Bernie Madoff's ruinous investment schemes, Abe Foxman takes a cultural and political look at the many variations throughout history of the assumptions made about Jews and money. These include Jews as greedy global capitalists; Jews as wealthy secret communists; Jews as cheapskates; and Jews controlling the media with their money to unduly influence society. Foxman makes the case that these stereotypes have permeated cultures globally and argues that these beliefs are rooted in deep-seated and pervasive anti-Semitism. As with all forms of bigotry, society at large needs to respond to the persistence of stereotypes by educating the young, denouncing hate speech, and by encouraging Jews, like all groups, to express pride in their ethnic and religious heritage.
Author: Robert Chazan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-09-01
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 0520917405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe twelfth century in Europe, hailed by historians as a time of intellectual and spiritual vitality, had a dark side. As Robert Chazan points out, the marginalization of minorities emerged during the "twelfth-century renaissance" as part of a growing pattern of persecution, and among those stigmatized the Jews figured prominently. The migration of Jews to northern Europe in the late tenth century led to the development of a new set of Jewish communities. This northern Jewry prospered, only to decline sharply two centuries later. Chazan locates the cause of the decline primarily in the creation of new, negative images of Jews. He shows how these damaging twelfth-century stereotypes developed and goes on to chart the powerful, lasting role of the new anti-Jewish imagery in the historical development of antisemitism. This coupling of the twelfth century's notable intellectual bequests to the growth of Western civilization with its legacy of virulent anti-Jewish motifs offers an important new key to understanding modern antisemitism.
Author: Dik Van Arkel
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 593
ISBN-13: 908964041X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese are big questions, and in The Drawing of the Mark of Cain they are addressed head-on. The author has devoted his entire career as a distinguished social historian to resolving these and similar problems. He has sought his answers through a highly original, consistently analytical process of historical conjecture and refutation. --
Author: Andrei Oisteanu
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2009-05-01
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 0803224613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInventing the Jew follows the evolution of stereotypes of Jews from the level of traditional Romanian and other Central-East European cultures (their legends, fairy tales, ballads, carols, anecdotes, superstitions, and iconographic representations) to that of "high" cultures (including literature, essays, journalism, and sociopolitical writings), showing how motifs specific to "folkloric antisemitism" migrated to "intellectual antisemitism." This comparative perspective also highlights how the images of Jews have differed from that of other "strangers" such as Hungarians, Germans, Roma, Turks.
Author: Bruce Zuckerman
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 1557536996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the decades after the Civil War, sports slowly gained a prominent position within American culture. This development provided Jews with opportunities to participate in one of the few American cultures not closed off to them. Jewish athleticism challenged anti-Semitic depictions of Jews' supposed physical inferiority and an Americanization narrative emerged that connected Jewish athleticism with full acceptance and integration into American society. This acceptance was not without struggle, but Jews succeeded and participated in the American sporting culture as athletes, coaches, owners, and fans. The contributions to this volume paint a broad picture of Jewish participation in sports, with essays written by respected historians who examine the impact of sport on Judaism. Despite the continued belief that Jewish religious or cultural identity remains somehow distinct from the American idea of the "athlete," the volume demonstrates that American Jews have made a tremendous contribution to American sports, and that sports have helped construct American Jewish culture and identity.
Author: Kenneth L. Marcus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-08-30
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1139491199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGiven jurisdiction over race and national origin but not religion, federal agents have had to determine whether Jewish Americans constitute a race or national origin group. They have been unable to do so. This has led to enforcement paralysis, as well as explosive internal confrontations and recriminations within the federal government. This book examines the legal and policy issues behind the ambiguity involved with civil rights protections for Jewish students. Written by a former senior government official, this book reveals the extent of this problem and presents a workable legal solution.
Author: Yuval Lurie
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 904203517X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a new understanding of Wittgenstein's discourse as an edifyng philosophy of culture, pursued through self-reflection. Investigates the conceptual underpinnings of culture, revealing them as shared expressive spiritual forms of life.
Author: Armin Lange
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-11-05
Total Pages: 618
ISBN-13: 3110618591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
