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Antisemitism
The Generic Hatred
London ; Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell ; [Paris] : United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization ; [Los Angeles] : Centre Simon Wiesenthal ; [Paris] : Verbe et Lumière-Vigilance, 2007.
Format: Book
Description: lxiii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Dedicated to the memory of the 'conscience of the Holocaust', Simon Wiesenthal - to whom it offers a number of personal tributes - this book brings together essays by a wide variety of authors on antisemitism and related forms of intolerance, racism, and xenophobia. Starting from the idea that antisemitism constitutes a paradigm case of collective and individual hatred, the book examines some of the reasons why it has prospered over the ages and persists in our time, even after well-nigh universal condemnation of the Holocaust. Some authors see it as a virus, always ready to develop and spread wherever Jewish difference is resented. Others emphasize that the antisemitic myths are not grounded in reality but depend rather on a fabrication, an imagined being to whom every kind of vice and perversion can be attributed. Jews, Gypsies, Kurds, Armenians, Tutsis - they can all be made to fit the bill. Simon Wiesenthal believed not in vengeance but in justice for the victims and played a pre-eminent and, at times, lonely role in tracking down individual criminals and bringing them to trial. But he knew that was not enough. The contributors to this memorial volume, representing a range of cultural, religious, and disciplinary perspectives, share that view. They know that so long as the Jewish stereotype is vested with legitimacy, the fight against antisemitism can never be won. Nor can it be defeated so long as it is fuelled by crisis in the Middle East, which has allowed some people to give expression to their antisemitism while denying it, by treating the State of Israel not as a state with its own particular problems and shortcomings, but as a kind of reified Jew. These are some of the issues addressed by the authors and essays presented, along with others, such as antisemitism as a determinant of Jewish identity and the possibility of forgiveness for the perpetrators of genocide. The book thus seeks to understand and learn from this particular paradigm of hatred and to suggest ways of countering it, in the name of the core values of a common humanity. Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Awards in the catagory of Anthology.
Contents:
Lessons of the Holocaust : the early warning system / Franklin H. Littell -- Anti-Zionism and antisemitism / Robert S. Wistrich -- The new antisemitism : an assault on human rights / Irwin Cotler -- The Durban Protocols : globalization of the new antisemitism / Shimon Samuels -- Journey to hell / Pilar Rahola -- The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the "propaganda of liberalism" / Mark Weitzman -- Defending change in Arab societies : conspiracy theories and their Arab critics / Goetz Nordbruch -- Antisemitism as a mental disorder / Steven K. Baum -- The psycho-historical foundations of antisemitism / Jerrold M. Post -- Humour against hate / Yaakov Kirschen -- Antisemitism and anti-westernism in the women's movement / Phyllis Chesler -- Common ground for hatemongers : incitement on the Internet / Ronald Eissens -- Antisemitism on campus : a view from Britain / Geoffrey Short -- Admission is not acceptance : reflections on the Dreyfus affair / George Whyte -- The Nazi extermination of the disabled as a prelude to the Holocaust / Giovanni De Martis -- The importance of prosecuting Nazi war criminals in post-communist Europe / Efraïm Zuroff -- How should the Holocaust be understood : the Elie Wiesel/Simon Wiesenthal controversy of the late 1970s / Michael Berenbaum -- Who needs forgiveness? : further thoughts on the moral dilemma posed by Simon Wiesenthal's The sunflower / John K. Roth -- Forgiveness and reconciliation after the Shoah / John Pawlikowski -- Conspiracy theories and the incitement of hatred : the dynamics of deception, plausibility, and defamation / Paul Weller -- The Kreuzberg Initiative against antisemitism among youth from Muslim and non-Muslim backgrounds in Berlin / Gunther Jikeli -- Antisemitism is the legitimate child of Islamism : the real cancer of Islam / Rachid Kaci -- The absurdity of antisemitsm in the Arab world / Morad El-Hattab El-Ibrahimi -- Containing antisemitism : a model for combating negrophobia / Assumpta Mugiraneza -- Containing antisemitism : lessons for tolerance from Northern Ireland / Richard English -- Holocaust and antisemitism studies in China / Xu Xin -- Touch the nerve : a personal journey / Christian Weber -- When it's not enough to know : the European experience / Gert Weisskirchen -- Reflections on Simon Wiesenthal and the concept of genocide / Steven Jacobs -- The historiography of antisemitism in the shadow of the Holocaust / Dina Porat -- Antisemitism : mutations of a virus / Jonathan Sacks.
ISBN:
9780853037460
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SSHC SOCIAL SCI Race Ant | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Selden K. Smith Holocaust Collection | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.