Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Classical Period
- Part II Medieval Times
- Part III The Modern Era
- 15 Martin Luther and the Reformation
- 16 The Enlightenment and Its Negative Consequences
- 17 Modern Antisemitism in Western Europe
- 18 Antisemitism in Late Imperial Russia and Eastern Europe through 1920
- 19 Marxism, Socialism, and Antisemitism
- 20A Antisemitism in Modern Literature and Theater
- 20B Antisemitism in Modern Literature and Theater
- 20C Antisemitism in Modern Literature and Theater
- 21 Antisemitism in America, 1654–2020
- 22 Antisemitism in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich
- 23 New Islamic Antisemitism, Mid-19th to the 21st Century
- 24 Anti-Zionism as Antisemitism
- 25 New Issues
- 26 Antisemitism in Social Media and on the Web
- 27 Theories on the Causes of Antisemitism
- Appendix The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance: Working Definition of Antisemitism
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
25 - New Issues
from Part III - The Modern Era
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Classical Period
- Part II Medieval Times
- Part III The Modern Era
- 15 Martin Luther and the Reformation
- 16 The Enlightenment and Its Negative Consequences
- 17 Modern Antisemitism in Western Europe
- 18 Antisemitism in Late Imperial Russia and Eastern Europe through 1920
- 19 Marxism, Socialism, and Antisemitism
- 20A Antisemitism in Modern Literature and Theater
- 20B Antisemitism in Modern Literature and Theater
- 20C Antisemitism in Modern Literature and Theater
- 21 Antisemitism in America, 1654–2020
- 22 Antisemitism in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich
- 23 New Islamic Antisemitism, Mid-19th to the 21st Century
- 24 Anti-Zionism as Antisemitism
- 25 New Issues
- 26 Antisemitism in Social Media and on the Web
- 27 Theories on the Causes of Antisemitism
- Appendix The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance: Working Definition of Antisemitism
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
Summary
This chapter examines the various ways in which antisemitism is defined and how it compares and is contrasted with other forms of prejudice and hatred. Unlike other prejudices, antisemitism has come from both the political left (the Soviet Union) and political right (Nazi Germany). The way in which contemporary “white power” movements have used antisemitism as ideological justification for their racism is also analyzed.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism , pp. 465 - 480Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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Further Reading
Almog, Shmuel, ed., Antisemitism through the Ages (Oxford, 1988). A series of essays tracing the history of antisemitism, based on the lectures and symposia held in Jerusalem by the Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History.Google Scholar
Ben-Itto, Hadassa, The Lie That Wouldn’t Die: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (London, 2005). An accessible presentation of the history of one of the most influential antisemitic forgeries by a judge involved in investigating and litigating cases concerning the Protocols.Google Scholar
Berger, David, ed., History and Hate: The Dimensions of Anti-Semitism (Philadelphia, 1997). A series of essays by leading Jewish historians on antisemitism from antiquity to the modern era.Google Scholar
Brustein, William I., Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust (Cambridge, 2003). A systematic and comparative study of antisemitism prior to the Holocaust and its religious, racial, economic, and political roots.Google Scholar
Chanes, Jerome A., Antisemitism: A Reference Handbook (Santa Barbara, CA, 2004). A global survey of antisemitism covering many countries and biographical sketches of influential figures in the history of antisemitism including Father Charles Coughlin, John Chrysostom, and David Duke.Google Scholar
Herf, Jeffrey, ed., Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Historical Perspective: Convergence and Divergence (London, 2007). Reflections from Israeli, European, Canadian, and American historians comparing and contrasting the similarities and differences between anti-Zionism and antisemitism and the manner in which it has spread to different regions of the world.Google Scholar
Kertzer, David I., Morey, Arthur, et al. The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican’s Role in the Rise of Anti-Semitism (New York, 2001). Arguing that the Roman Catholic Church played a major role in the development of European antisemitism, the book contends that, although the Vatican did not approve of the genocide of the Jews, its teachings and policies helped make it possible.Google Scholar
Levy, Richard S., Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution (Santa Barbara, CA, 2005). An important resource containing 612 articles by over 200 scholars from many different countries, this historical encyclopedia provides a broad range of information, history, and analysis of antisemitism.Google Scholar
Michael, Robert, ed., Dictionary of Antisemitism from the Earliest Times to the Present (Lanham, MD, 2007). A very useful reference resource on the history of antisemitism.Google Scholar
Nirenberg, D., Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition (New York, 2013). An intellectually powerful examination of the way Jew-hatred is foundational to the history of Western civilization. Examines how different societies and countries rendered Judaism as the internal enemy, something to be feared, fought, and destroyed.Google Scholar
Parkes, James W., Antisemitism (London, 1963). A classic work by a man who was a scholar and an Anglican clergyman. This book helped propel Christian theologians and clerics to reevaluate Christianity’s role in the development, spread, and inculcation of antisemitism.Google Scholar
Poliakov, Leon, The History of Anti-Semitism, 4 vols. (Philadelphia, 2003). A comprehensive, multivolume history of antisemitism that surveys the history of this hatred from ancient to modern time. Among other things, it demonstrates that Jews did not even have to be present in a society for antisemitism to thrive.Google Scholar
Wistrich, Robert S., A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad (New York, 2010). A compelling and comprehensive examination of the both known and often ignored roots of Jew-hatred through the ages.Google Scholar