Deciphering the New Antisemitism by Alvin H. Rosenfeld

By Alvin H. Rosenfeld

Interpreting the recent Antisemitism addresses the expanding incidence of antisemitism on a world scale. Antisemitism takes on numerous kinds in all components of the realm, and the essays during this wide-ranging quantity take care of lots of them: ecu antisemitism, antisemitism and Islamophobia, antisemitism and anti-Zionism, and efforts to demonize and delegitimize Israel. participants are a world crew of students who make clear the cultural, highbrow, political, and spiritual stipulations that supply upward thrust to antisemitic phrases and deeds. those landmark essays are noteworthy for his or her timeliness and talent to grapple successfully with the intense concerns to hand.

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Authoritarian Personality, ix, 93, 973.  Žižek, Sublime Object of Ideology, p. 48, 48–49, 49. 27. Sergei Silus quoted in Richard Landes and Steven T. Katz, “Introduction: The Protocols at the Dawn of the 21st Century,” in Landes and Katz, Paranoid Apocalypse, 8. 28. Günther Jikeli, “Antisemitism among Young European Males,” in Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives, ed. Alvin H. Rosenfeld (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013), 284.  Žižek, Sublime Object of Ideology, 49. 30. Leon Wieseltier, “Old Demons, New Debates,” in Old Demons, New Debates: Antisemitism in the West, ed.

Here it is not merely about “the Jew,” individually or collectively, but about a way of bringing sense out of the world’s chaos and of responding to the traumas of social division. Note s Some portions of this chapter are drawn from Kenneth L. Marcus, The Definition of Antisemitism (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2015). 1. Jean-Paul Sartre, Anti-Semite and Jew, trans. George C. Becker (New York: Schocken Books 1995), 17. 2. Anthony Julius, Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Antisemitism in England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), xlii, xliv, xlii.

Shlomo Sand, “From Judeophobia to Islamophobia,” Jewish Quarterly 57, no. 1 (2010), 60–61, quoted in Hajjat and Mohammed, Islamophobie, 194. org/terms 20 Pa sca l Bruck n er 12. Among the victims of the “Arab Muslim” genocide, Sacranie includes the Palestinians and the Iraqis but not the Kurds gassed by Saddam Hussein. After the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie had been issued, he also declared that death would be too sweet for him and that he should instead be tormented until the end of his life. 13.

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