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Krah, Franziska. "Mit den Waffen der Aufklärung gegen den Antisemitismus." Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 63, no. 2 (2011): 122–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157007311795244338.
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AbstractThe rise of political anti-Semitism in Imperial and Weimar Germany met with public opposition initiated primarily by Jews. From various perspectives, jewish journalists and intellectuals investigated the origin of this anti-Semitism, its different manifestations as well as possibilities of its public rejection. Journalist Binjamin W. Segel (1866-1931) hereby focused his efforts on debunking antiSemitic myths, such as the Jewish World Conspiracy, as popularized by the text "The protocols of the Elders of Zion". In his writings, Segel, with an Eastern European background, pays attention to the discrimination of "Ostjuden" (EastEuropean Jews) in particular. Furthermore, Segel deals with questions regarding the origins of anti-Semitism, and the effectiveness of Jewish opposition towards it. The following article outlines his life and discusses his work.
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Brenner, Rachel Feldhay. "The Jews and the Messianic Ethos of the Second Polish Republic. Stanisław Rembek’s Interwar Literary Writings." Przegląd Humanistyczny 62, no. 4 (463) (May 24, 2019): 23–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.2632.
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Rembek’s conviction of Polish “chosenness” is expressed in the characterizations of the Jewish protagonists in his fiction. While Rembek’s diaristic writing reveals his antiSemitic prejudices, in his novella Dojrzałe kłosy [Ripe spikes], and novel Nagan [Revolver] he portrays the Jews as patriotic officers fighting for Poland. These characterizations of the Jews highlighted Poland’s democratic open-mindedness toward its Jewish citizens. Nonetheless, as Jews they were excluded from the nation’s Christian destiny. Time and again, the Jewish officers in Rembek’s fiction articulate their despondency over their failure to accept Christ despite their irresistible attraction to the Christian faith. The failure points to their inability to achieve grace. Their sense of religious inadequacy elucidates a theological perspective which posits that a Jewish presence was indispensable to Poland’s redemptive destiny; the Jew as an affirming witness sanctioned the Polish claim to a messianic calling. To achieve legitimacy, the Polish national messianic mission needed to be acknowledged by Jews. The perspective in Rembek’s fiction illuminates an important facet in the complexity of the Polish-Jewish relationships in reborn Poland.
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Hake, Sabine. "August Winnig: From Proletariat to Workerdom, in the Name of the People." New German Critique 48, no. 1 (February 1, 2021): 125–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0094033x-8732173.
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Abstract In the social imaginaries that sustained Nazi ideology from the 1920s through the 1930s, Arbeitertum, translated here as “workerdom,” played a key role in integrating socialist positions into the discourse of the Volksgemeinschaft. Workerdom proved essential for translating the class-based identifications associated with the proletariat into the race-based categories that redefined the people, and hence the workers, in line with antisemitic thought. The writings of the prolific but largely forgotten August Winnig (1878–1956) can be used to reconstruct how workerdom came to provide an emotional blueprint, an identificatory model, and a compensatory fantasy in the reimagining of class, folk, and nation. The influential Vom Proletariat zum Arbeitertum (1930), as well as select autobiographical and fictional works by Winnig, are used to uncover these continuities through the political emotions, dispositions, and identifications that can properly be called populist. In the larger context of worker’s literature, conservative revolution, and völkisch thought, the Nazi discourse of workerdom not only confirms the close connection between political emotion and populist (un)reason but also opens up new ways to understand the continued attractions of populism as a particular kind of politics of emotion based on the dream of the people.
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Cohn, Haim H. "German Christian Contributions to Jewish Law." Israel Law Review 33, no. 4 (1999): 733–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021223700016162.
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I have chosen for my subject some of the contributions made to Jewish law — in its widest sense — by German Christian scholars of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Some sixty years or more ago I became acquainted with the writings of John Selden, the 17th century English lawyer, parliamentarian and antiquarian, whose books on the Uxor Hebraica and De successionibus ad legem Ebraeorum, and De synedriis, were a revelation to me: for a non-Jewish scholar of that period to be capable of delving into biblical, talmudical and post-talmudical sources and to compare them with other ancient systems of law, was an unexpected feat. It is not only the impeccable command of Hebrew and Aramaic that excites wonder: it is also a sincere and genuine endeavour to comprehend and describe the workings of Jewish law objectively and without religious bias. We shall see that not all theologians always succeeded in suppressing their innate prejudices; there were even a good many who conducted their Judaistic research for hostile purposes (and with those I shall not deal). Even of Selden it was said that he had voiced now and then some antisemitic remarks, but there is no trace of any personal animus in his books on Jewish law.
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Magid, Shaul. "Judeopessimism: Antisemitism, History, and Critical Race Theory." Harvard Theological Review 117, no. 2 (April 2024): 368–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017816024000130.
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AbstractThis essay coins a term “Judeopessimism,” engaging questions of some of the contemporary writing on antisemitism and its claim to be historical in nature through the lens of critical race theory, specifically Afropessimism and its offshoots, which make claims of anti-Blackness as political ontology. Is some of this writing on antisemitism really making theological or political ontological claims of “eternal antisemitism” refracted in a less volatile historical narrative? How can critical race theory and its understanding of anti-Blackness help refine, clarify, and push the discussion on antisemitism to be more forthright about its underlying claims? I explore some examples of ontological antisemitism in the writings of Meir Kahane and Naftali Zvi Berlin who each in different ways offer ahistorical and even ontological views on antisemitism that are mostly shunned by contemporary writing on the subject and suggest that Afropessimism offers a helpful way to see beyond the historical veil of how antisemitism is understood today.
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Bortz, Olof. "Hugo Valentin's scholarly campaign against antisemitism." Nordisk judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies 34, no. 1 (June 19, 2023): 52–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.30752/nj.126119.
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The Swedish Jewish historian Hugo Valentin (1888–1963) founded the field of Swedish Jewish history in the 1920s. Valentin was also a prominent and public figure in Swedish Jewish affairs, as a writer, Zionist and refugee activist. This article focuses on Valentin’s analysis of antisemitism, from the 1920s to the early 1950s. It pays equal attention to the continuity and change of his writings on the topic, analysed in relation to such political contexts as the ‘Jewish question’, Zionism and anti-Nazi responses, and advances within scholarly research on antisemitism. It shows that Valentin staked out a new approach to the topic of antisemitism, in which Jewish characteristics and the so-called Jewish question, while not completely absent, were placed within parentheses. Instead, he presented antisemitism and individual antisemites as problems in their own right, which, given Nazi German expansionism and the outbreak of the Second World War, seemed to be a greater and more urgent issue than whatever questions might have pertained to Jews and their place in modern society.
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Byford, Jovan. "Distinguishing "anti-Judaism" from "anti-Semitism": Recent championing of Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic." Sociologija 48, no. 2 (2006): 163–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/soc0602163b.
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After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the continuity in the ideology of the Eastern European far right has been apparent in the extent to which the restoration of right-wing ideas was accompanied with widespread rewriting of history and the rehabilitation of contentious historical figures, many of whom, 40 years earlier, had attained notoriety for their antisemitism and fascist and pro-Nazi leanings. This article examines a specific example of postcommunist revisionism in Serbian society. The principal aim of the article is to explore the rhetoric of Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic (1880 - 1956), a controversial Serbian Orthodox Christian philosopher whose writing includes overtly antisemitic passages, and elucidate the strategies that his supporters have been deploying to promote him and maintain his popularity while countering objections of antisemitism. The paper focuses on the way in which the controversy surrounding Velimirovic?s antisemitism was managed around the time of his formal canonisation in May 2003. The author argues that unlike the Roman Catholic and Protestant Christian denominations, eastern churches, including the Serbian Orthodox Church, have as yet not formally addressed from a doctrinal or ecclesiological perspective the problem of Christian antisemitism. Due to the unwavering traditionalism justifications and denials of antisemitism must be constructed in such a way that they present the bishop?s views as consistent with the prevailing secular norms of ethnic tolerance.
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Shner, Moshe. "The Isaiah of the 20th century – Korczak’s utopia of all men solidarity." Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny, no. 67/4 (May 14, 2023): 69–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.31338/2657-6007.kp.2022-4.5.
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Korczak scholars deal mainly with his pedagogy, extensive writings, the legacy of his two children’s homes, and the tragic end of Korczak and his Jewish children in the Holocaust. Less attention is given to his humanistic worldview. Korczak, who claimed that the child is a human being here and now, not a man in the making, developed a philosophy that places the child, as any other human being, in his broad understanding of Humanity. This study aims to explore Korczak’s utopian idea of one united Humanity. As a Jew, Korczak knew the price people pay for these historical divisions. This study shows that, like other Jewish intellectuals of modernity, Korczak envisioned a reality of all men’s unity and solidarity. Korczak was not blind to the political, cultural, and social realities of the 20th century. Antisemitic ideas were present in interwar Poland, as in other European countries, yet, he hoped that the world of men is mendable. One day, all people of the world will unite around the cause of the child. A renewed reading of Korczak’s texts, including his exchange of letters with his friends in Palestine, the Land of Israel, the Holy Land of the Christians, and his impressions from his two visits to Palestine showed his broad universal view. A renewed reading of his classic novel, King Matt the First, would reveal, besides the idea of a children’s kingdom, the idea that Europeans, Africans and Asians, boys and girls, rich and street people, can live together in peace. It is possible if they would go beyond political rivalries, greediness for power and money, admiration of military might, and social prejudices. The Kingdom of Matt failed. Society is not ready for such a worldview. Korczak’s words like the Biblical prophecies of Isaiah, remained unfulfilled, but we, living in a troubling era, must hope that one day, “at the end of days,” they will become a reality.
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Swanson, Joel. "Contempt for the Whos? or: How to Read Nietzsche Autobiographically after the Death of the Bios." Religions 13, no. 3 (February 28, 2022): 205. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13030205.
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This paper examines French philosopher Sarah Kofman’s fractured relationships to her identities as Jew and woman. Active participant in postwar debates surrounding deconstruction and psychoanalysis, acclaimed reader of Freud and Nietzsche, and interlocutor of Derrida, Kofman is today most widely remembered for her autobiographical writings about her childhood as a young Orthodox Jewish girl during the Nazi occupation of Paris. Kofman’s mother sent her to pretend to be the daughter of a Christian woman, which both ensured Kofman’s physical survival and led to an uncanny Freudian doubling of the maternal figure, such that both “Jew” and “Christian” became unstable, mimetic identity categories which Kofman could never again fully inhabit. The paper examines Kofman’s writings on Nietzsche, suggesting that her attempt to absolve the German philosopher of the charges of antisemitism oft leveled against him functioned as a similarly failed and incomplete means of asserting control over her personal identity. If Kofman could demonstrate that Nietzsche was not in fact an antisemite, then she could write herself into the lineage of Continental philosophy and reclaim the stable ancestry she lost during the war. Yet the paper concludes that a counter-narrative running throughout Kofman’s writings suggests an awareness that she could never fully absolve Nietzsche, and therefore that her attempt to claim Nietzsche as a father figure would always fail. The paper thus suggests that the illusion of control and stability epitomized by Kofman’s reading of Nietzsche provides an interpretive thematic to understand the unstable figure of the post-Holocaust Jewish philosopher.
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Gordan, Rachel. "The 1940s as the Decade of the Anti-Antisemitism Novel." Religion and American Culture 31, no. 1 (2021): 33–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rac.2021.6.
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ABSTRACTThis article examines the anti-antisemitism novels of the 1940s as an indication of the decade's changing attitudes toward Jews, antisemitism, and religious pluralism, and so contributes to scholarly research on both social protest literature and mid-twentieth-century American religious culture. Recent scholarship has shown that American Jews responded to the Holocaust earlier than had previously been assumed. The anti-antisemitism novels of the 1940s were one of the popular culture arenas in which this response to the horrors of Nazi Germany occurred, as fiction proved an ideal genre for imagining and presenting possible solutions to the problem of antisemitism. These solutions often involved a change from a racial to a religious conception of Jews. Laura Z. Hobson's Gentleman's Agreement (1947) was the most culturally significant of this 1940s genre of anti-antisemitism novels (a subgenre of social protest literature), in part because of its foregrounding of non-Jewish responses to antisemitism. Archival research into the roots of Hobson's novel reveals that news of other female authors writing popular anti-antisemitism fiction encouraged Hobson, allowing Hobson to feel part of a movement of anti-antisemitism writers that would eventually extend to her readers, as demonstrated by readers’ letters. Although Will Herberg's Protestant, Catholic, Jew (1955) is frequently cited as the midcentury book that heralded a postwar shift toward religious pluralism, the anti-antisemitism novels of the 1940s reveal signs of this shift a decade earlier.
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Gruen, Erich S. "Antisemitism in the Pagan World." Antisemitism Studies 7, no. 2 (September 2023): 405–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/antistud.7.2.06.
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Abstract: This article explores the ancient testimony that has often been understood to indicate pagan antisemitism among Greeks and Romans in antiquity. It seeks to challenge the common notions that hostility to Jews arose on religious or ideological grounds or that it was rooted in suspicion of, or contempt for, the outsider or that it represented fear of Jewish proselytizing that might threaten pagan institutions. The article seeks to show that the negative comments about Jews found in Greek and Roman writings amount to scorn and derision or simply amused misgivings, but little (if any) antisemitism. And the episodes of state or private actions against Jews were very rare and stemmed from exceptional circumstances.
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Gruen, Erich S. "Antisemitism in the Pagan World." Antisemitism Studies 7, no. 2 (September 2023): 405–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ast.2023.a910237.
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Abstract: This article explores the ancient testimony that has often been understood to indicate pagan antisemitism among Greeks and Romans in antiquity. It seeks to challenge the common notions that hostility to Jews arose on religious or ideological grounds or that it was rooted in suspicion of, or contempt for, the outsider or that it represented fear of Jewish proselytizing that might threaten pagan institutions. The article seeks to show that the negative comments about Jews found in Greek and Roman writings amount to scorn and derision or simply amused misgivings, but little (if any) antisemitism. And the episodes of state or private actions against Jews were very rare and stemmed from exceptional circumstances.
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Deutsch, David. "Antisemitism and Intimacy in the Writing of Goebbels." Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust 26, no. 1 (January 2012): 9–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23256249.2012.10744414.
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Hahn, Hans-Joachim. "»Die angesteckten Juden«. Constantin Brunners Antizionismus." Aschkenas 29, no. 2 (November 1, 2019): 455–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/asch-2019-0023.
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Abstract The article analyses Brunner’s attitude towards Zionism from the time when he conceived »Der Judenhass und die Juden«, focussing on his writings on Antisemitism and on questions of German-Jewish belonging. There is something remarkable about the historical moment when Brunner engaged with the question of Antisemitism. Whereas the rise of Antisemitism in the 1870 s prompted a number of Jewish public reactions and analyses, there was a visible decline in their number after the turn of the century. On the other hand, it was by no means extraordinary that Brunner connected his critical reflections on anti-Jewish sentiments with a negative attitude towards Zionism. The radicalism of his position becomes evident, however, in the fact that he treated both the hatred of Jews and Zionism as just two aspects of the same tragedy. While after 1912 his explicit anti-Zionism was, to a certain degree, shared by many members of the »Centralverein«, his position with respect to nation and nationhood tended towards the more radical views of Max Naumann, who associated Jewish identity with German nationalism.
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Armon, Adi. "The “Origins of The Origins”." Arendt Studies 3 (2019): 49–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/arendtstudies2018102417.
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Unlike “Imperialism” and “Totalitarianism,” the last two chapters in Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), written in the United States in the 1940s, the completion of the first chapter, “Antisemitism”, was preceded by more than two decades of writing in Europe and in the United States, during which Arendt found it increasingly necessary to address issues related to the Jews’ political and social situation. The chapter may be only one part of the book, but it is in fact the “origin of The Origins” and its cornerstone. In order to trace several themes of this seminal chapter, we must analyze the contribution of the French Jewish thinker, Bernard Lazare, to Arendt’s thinking. Without him, “Antisemitism” would never have coalesced and seen the light of day as a political analysis of the phenomenon. Without the “Antisemitism” chapter, The Origins of Totalitarianism would not have become a canonical work of twentieth-century political thought.
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Phillips, Helen. "'Out, Harrow' and 'Alas!': Chaucer, Shouts and Narrative." Yearbook of English Studies 53, no. 1 (2023): 36–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/yes.2023.a928430.
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Abstract: This examination of noise, and particularly shouts, in chaucer's writing focuses especially on the hue and cry, which appears strikingly often in chaucer's narratives. As responses to dangers and assaults, actual and threatened, these cries reflect both drama in chaucer's fictions and the medieval system of public alerts to accidents and crimes, their detection and punishment. chaucer's handling of the theme engages with questions about the reliability of narratives and also with problems of rape and sexual consent, misogynistic narratives and fictions of social class. It also examines how the motif of shouts as alerts to misdeeds can, in different instances, either question or confirm antifeminist and antisemitic narratives.
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Øveraas, Morten. "Den konservative revolusjonen – i Thorleif Schirmer sitt forfattarskap." European Journal of Scandinavian Studies 53, no. 2 (October 1, 2023): 217–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2023-2014.
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Abstract This article asks if the phenomenon of the Conservative Revolution had exponents in rural western Norway in early 20th century. It sheds light on Thorleif Schirmer (1877–1941), a teacher and writer. Schirmer elaborated his ideology with radical and conservative rhetoric, influenced by German literature and politics. He presented a cyclical understanding of culture. To secure its existence, nations should revolutionize its mythical origins. Antisemitism fuelled his theories. The positive reception of Schirmer’s writings, indicates conceptual resemblance between the Scandinavian folk and the German Volk.
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Suuronen, Ville. "Nazism as Inhumanity: Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt on Race and Language." New German Critique 49, no. 2 (August 1, 2022): 15–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0094033x-9734791.
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Drawing on a large array of less-known materials, this article offers a new comparison of Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt by focusing on their opposing understandings of National Socialism as a novel political ideology. While Schmitt’s Nazi writings theorize a new kind of racial politics under Nazi rule, Arendt’s political thought develops as a systematic critique and response to the histories of antisemitism, imperialism, and totalitarianism. After joining the Nazi Party in 1933, Schmitt endorsed the expulsion of Jewish intellectuals from Germany, celebrated the burning of their writings (including those of Arendt), and supported the process of Gleichschaltung as the first steps in creating a nazified Germany. While Schmitt claimed that the Jews have no access to German substance, culture, and language, noting that “the Jew lies when he speaks German,” Arendt always emphasized that for her, Germany meant precisely “the mother tongue, the philosophy and the poetry.” Relying on thus far unacknowledged biographical and theoretical contrasts, this article aims to show that Schmitt and Arendt understand the political meanings of race and language in a radically different manner.
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Ibekwe, Fidelia. "Another Look at a Knowledge Organization Pioneer: Traces of Racism in Paul Otlet’s Writings." KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION 51, no. 1 (2024): 3–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0943-7444-2024-1-3.
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Critical strand of studies in Knowledge Organization (KO) and Library and Information Science (LIS) have been focused on gender bias and power inherent in the classification of knowledge artefacts. From the mid-2000s, attention turned to other types of biases notably racial biases. These studies have exposed and rightly critiqued how the supposedly “universal” classification and knowledge artefacts designed by LIS and KO pioneers were designed mostly by white men. Wiegand (1996) demonstrated that Melvil Dewey, the creator of DCC, was a notorious racist and antisemite. This paper raises the issue of how the LIS and KO communities have dealt with the legacy of one its most celebrated pioneers, Paul Otlet, whose writings had imprints of white supremacist ideologies at least in two of his texts ‘Afrique aux Noirs’ and ‘Monde. Essai d’universalisme’. In particular, we speculate about the quasi-omerta that had surrounded Otlet’s writings on race and racial relations considering the amount of exegesis done on his works. The one-sided narrative portraying Otlet mostly in a positive light and magnifying his works has led to epistemicide and “documentary injustice”.
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Perković Paloš, Andrijana. "Croatian leadership and Jews in the 1990s." St open 1 (2020): 1–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.48188/so.1.13.
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Aim: What was the attitude of the first Croatian president Franjo Tuđman and the Croatian leadership towards the Holocaust and the Jewish community in Croatia in the 1990s? Some considered Tuđman a Holocaust denier because of the purportedly controversial parts of his 1989 book Bespuća povijesne zbiljnosti (Wastelands of Historical Reality). The Croatian leadership was accused of minimizing World War II crimes of the Ustasha regime and rehabilitating the World War II Independent State of Croatia. Methods: We analyzed archival documents, Tuđman’s published correspondence, controversial parts of his Wastelands of Historical Reality, his public statements, biographical writings of contemporary Croatian leaders, and newspaper articles. We scrutinized the Serbian propaganda against Croatia in the 1990s, the position and role of the Jewish community and prominent Jews in Croatian public life as well as the relations between Croatia and Israel. Findings: The Croatian leadership and the Jewish community maintained good relations in the 1990s. Some prominent Croatian Jews actively advocated for Croatia’s international recognition and refuted certain authors’ and some Jewish international circles’ accusations of antisemitism among Croatian leadership. Jews participated at the highest levels of Croatian government. Democratic changes at the beginning of the 1990s enabled national, religious, political and other freedoms for minorities in Croatia, including the Jewish community. Still, some authors considered Tuđman an anti-Semite and a Holocaust denier. These opinions were partly shaped by quotes from the Wastelands of Historical Reality taken out of context and published by Serbian propagandists. This propaganda successfully shaped the false perception of official antisemitism in Croatia and has contributed to the delay in the establishment of the diplomatic relations between Croatia and Israel for more than five years after Israel had recognized Croatia. Conclusion: There is no evidence for claims of political antisemitism in Croatia in the 1990s. This article sheds light on this widely manipulated topic and provides a basis for further research.
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Perković Paloš, Andrijana. "Croatian leadership and Jews in the 1990s." St open 1 (2020): 1–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.48188/so.1.13.
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Aim: What was the attitude of the first Croatian president Franjo Tuđman and the Croatian leadership towards the Holocaust and the Jewish community in Croatia in the 1990s? Some considered Tuđman a Holocaust denier because of the purportedly controversial parts of his 1989 book Bespuća povijesne zbiljnosti (Wastelands of Historical Reality). The Croatian leadership was accused of minimizing World War II crimes of the Ustasha regime and rehabilitating the World War II Independent State of Croatia. Methods: We analyzed archival documents, Tuđman’s published correspondence, controversial parts of his Wastelands of Historical Reality, his public statements, biographical writings of contemporary Croatian leaders, and newspaper articles. We scrutinized the Serbian propaganda against Croatia in the 1990s, the position and role of the Jewish community and prominent Jews in Croatian public life as well as the relations between Croatia and Israel. Findings: The Croatian leadership and the Jewish community maintained good relations in the 1990s. Some prominent Croatian Jews actively advocated for Croatia’s international recognition and refuted certain authors’ and some Jewish international circles’ accusations of antisemitism among Croatian leadership. Jews participated at the highest levels of Croatian government. Democratic changes at the beginning of the 1990s enabled national, religious, political and other freedoms for minorities in Croatia, including the Jewish community. Still, some authors considered Tuđman an anti-Semite and a Holocaust denier. These opinions were partly shaped by quotes from the Wastelands of Historical Reality taken out of context and published by Serbian propagandists. This propaganda successfully shaped the false perception of official antisemitism in Croatia and has contributed to the delay in the establishment of the diplomatic relations between Croatia and Israel for more than five years after Israel had recognized Croatia. Conclusion: There is no evidence for claims of political antisemitism in Croatia in the 1990s. This article sheds light on this widely manipulated topic and provides a basis for further research.
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Warde, Luke. "Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Trolling For Another Time?" Infox, Fake News et « Nouvelles faulses » : perspectives historiques (XVe – XXe siècles), no. 118 (September 10, 2021): 165–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1081088ar.
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This article presents a reading of Louis-Ferdinand Céline through the concept of trolling. A relatively new phenomenon, trolling denotes an attempt to elicit a negative response in a chosen target via deliberate provocation or incitement. While inextricable from the online social media platforms that have facilitated its emergence as a discursive mode, trolling is dependent on rhetorical strategies that are hardly new: irony, self-referentiality, effrontery, aggression, etc. Trolls seek to cultivate a brand around the antipathy they delight in triggering. I contend that Céline attempted to do just this in the postwar period, and more specifically in the series of interviews he conducted at Meudon in the last decade of his life. I thus argue against some recent scholarship that claims that Céline attempted to regain, by expressing contrition, a sympathetic audience following his condemnation for having published a series of egregiously antisemitic pamphlets. Rather, I suggest that he sought to instrumentalize his notoriety for his own advantage; some readers, he likely reasoned, are drawn to him because, not in spite of, his infamy. My argument draws on a body of recent writing on the relationship between humour, new media and far-right politics.
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Gribetz, Jonathan Marc. "The PLO's Defense of the Talmud." AJS Review 42, no. 2 (November 2018): 293–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0364009418000521.
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In 1970, the PLO Research Center in Beirut published a book that challenged what it considered to be common Arab misconceptions and prejudices concerning the Talmud. In analyzing this book, this article poses three questions. The first concerns motivation: What led the PLO's think tank to engage a researcher with the task of learning and writing about the Talmud? Second is the question of sources: How did the PLO researcher find his information and what does the presence of these sources on the PLO Research Center library's bookshelf tell us about the world of PLO intellectuals in late 1960s Beirut? Finally, what can be learned from the conclusions the researcher drew about the relationship between the Talmud and Zionism and between Judaism and Jewish nationalism? The article concludes with a reflection on the continuing debate over the place of antisemitism in the PLO.
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Creech, Joe. "THE TOLERANT POPULISTS AND THE LEGACY OF WALTER NUGENT." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 14, no. 2 (April 2015): 141–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537781414000760.
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AbstractPublished in 1963 and with a second edition in 2013, Walter Nugent's The Tolerant Populists challenged and overturned an interpretation of the American Populist movement, largely associated with Richard Hofstadter's The Age of Reform, which portrayed the People's Party as backward looking, reactionary, irrational, antisemitic, and nativist. The Tolerant Populists demonstrated the Populist movement to be forward looking in its advocacy of statist economic reforms later adopted by progressives. In addition to this particular intervention in the literature, The Tolerant Populists, as it marked a turn in the 1960s to writing history from the bottom up, also more generally shaped the historiography of Populism by emphasizing the local social, cultural, and political roots of the movement; the movement's appeal to marginalized Americans in the 1890s; and the reasonableness of its policy measures to ease economic suffering. Moreover, the new edition critiques the continued use in popular media of lower-case “populism” to describe modern anti-statist movements that bear no resemblance to the movement of the 1890s. Finally, Walter Nugent forwarded the historiographical emphases in The Tolerant Populists to influence, in his later scholarship, the wider history of monetary policy, American demographic and social history, immigration, the American West, and American empire building.
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Baer, Marc David. "Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide." Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 73, no. 1 (January 24, 2021): 39–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700739-07301005.
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What has compelled Jews in the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and abroad to promote a positive image of Ottomans and Turks while they deny the Armenian genocide and the existence of anti-Semitism in Turkey? The dominant historical narrative is that Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 were embraced by the Ottoman Empire, and then later, protected from the Nazis during WWII. If we believe that Turks and Jews have lived in harmony for so long, then it is hard for us to accept that the Turks could have committed genocide against the Armenians. In this article, the author confronts these convictions and circumstances to reflect on what moral responsibility the descendants of the victims of one genocide have to the descendants of victims of another. Baer delves into the history of Muslim-Jewish relations in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey to tease out the origin of these many tangled truths. He aims to bring about reconciliation between Jews, Muslims, and Christians, not only to face inconvenient historical facts, but to confront it and come to terms with it. By looking at the complexities of interreligious relations, Holocaust denial, genocide and ethnic cleansing, and confronting some long-standing historical stereotypes, the author sets out to tell a new history that goes against Turkish antisemitism and admits to the Armenian genocide.
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Trepte, Hans-Christian. "Between Homeland and Emigration. Tuwim’s Struggle for Identity." Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica 36, no. 6 (May 30, 2017): 35–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1505-9057.36.04.
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Julian Tuwim belongs to the pantheon of the greatest Polish writes of the 20th century. His Polish-Jewish descent, his attitude towards the Polish language, towards Jews in Poland, his political activities as an emigrant as well as his controversial involvement with the communist Poland still fuel many critical discussions. Polish language and culture were for him much more important than the categories of nation or state. However, whereas for Polish nationalists and antisemites Tuwim remained “only” a Jew, Jewish nationalists considered him a traitor. It was in exile that his attitude towards his Jewish countrymen began to change, especially after he learnt about the horror of the Holocaust in occupied Poland. Thus, he began writing his famous, dramatic manifesto, We, the Polish Jews. After World War II, Tuwim came back to Poland, hoping to continue his prewar career as a celebrated poet. His manifold contributions to the development of the Polish language and literature, within the country and abroad, cannot be questioned, and the dilemmas concerning his cultural and ethnic identity only make him a more interesting writer. Julian Tuwim belongs to the pantheon of the greatest Polish writes of the 20th century. His Polish-Jewish descent, his attitude towards the Polish language, towards Jews in Poland, his political activities as an emigrant as well as his controversial involvement with the communist Poland still fuel many critical discussions. Polish language and culture were for him much more important than the categories of nation or state. However, whereas for Polish nationalists and antisemites Tuwim remained “only” a Jew, Jewish nationalists considered him a traitor. It was in exile that his attitude towards his Jewish countrymen began to change, especially after he learnt about the horror of the Holocaust in occupied Poland. Thus, he began writing his famous, dramatic manifesto, We, the Polish Jews. After World War II, Tuwim came back to Poland, hoping to continue his prewar career as a celebrated poet. His manifold contributions to the development of the Polish language and literature, within the country and abroad, cannot be questioned, and the dilemmas concerning his cultural and ethnic identity only make him a more interesting writer.
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Raizen, Esther. "Dreadful Noise: Jean-Claude Pecker on Loss, Remembrance, and Silence." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 41, no. 3 (2023): 188–221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sho.2023.a918860.
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Abstract: French astrophysicist Jean-Claude Pecker, who passed away in early 2020, left behind a rich body of work that reflects his active engagement with areas beyond the scientific, among them the visual arts, social activism, and poetry. This paper follows Pecker as he grapples with the loss of his parents in the Holocaust and articulates the impact of this loss on his life and work. My discussion draws primarily on Pecker’s poetry collections Galets poétiques and Lamento 1944–1994 , with occasional references to other writings, among them a provisional draft of the opening chapter from Pecker’s memoir and letters recounting his family history. Allusions to Pecker’s Jewish heritage are absent from the poetry collections yet are prominently present in other writings in the context of antisemitism as the core of his “feeling Jewish” on the one hand and the rejection of Judaism among all other religions on the other. Reflecting on the violence that afflicted his life during the war years and admitting his deep pessimism regarding the future of both humanity and the environment, the elderly Pecker conveys in his writings a sense of diminished agency both in his own life and in that of the sun, the celestial body broadly considered a mainstay of his scientific work. Contextualizing Pecker among his peers, I suggest that while the themes of deportation and death figure centrally in the poems, Pecker is less in conversation with Holocaust poetry or poets and more in dialogue with a group of French artist-friends, united in the knowledge of nature’s timeless beauty and in the recognition of the presence within humanity of love, friendship, and the unlimited capacity for inflicting harm and great pain.
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Stähler, Axel. "Between or Beyond? Jewish British Short Stories in English since the 1970s." Humanities 9, no. 3 (September 11, 2020): 110. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h9030110.
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Looking at short stories by writers as diverse as Brian Glanville, Ruth Fainlight, Clive Sinclair, Jonathan Wilson, James Lasdun, Gabriel Josipovici, Tamar Yellin, Michelene Wandor, and Naomi Alderman, and extending from the center of Jewish British writing to its margins, this article seeks to locate the defining feature of their ‘Jewish substratum’ in conditions particular to the Jewish post-war experience, and to trace its impact across their thematic plurality which, for the most part, transcends any specifically British concerns that may also emerge, opening up an Anglophone sphere of Jewish writing. More specifically, it is argued that the unease pervading so many Jewish British short stories since the 1970s is a product of, and response to, what may very broadly be described as the Jewish experience and the precarious circumstances of Jewish existence even after the Second World War and its cataclysmic impact. It is suggested that it is prompted in particular by the persistence of the Holocaust and the anxieties the historical event continues to produce; by the confrontation with competing patterns of identification, with antisemitism, and with Israel; and by anxieties of non-belonging, of fragmentation, of dislocation, and of dissolution. Turned into literary tropes, these experiences provide the basis of a Jewish substratum whose articulation is facilitated by the expansion of Jewish British writers into the space of Anglophone Jewish writing. As a result, the Jewish British short story emerges as a multifaceted and hybrid project in continuous progress.
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Радченко, Юрий. ""Это… было моим тайным 'комплексом'": Иван Лысяк-Рудницкий и еврейство." Ab Imperio 2023, no. 4 (2023): 189–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922261.
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SUMMARY: This review essay discusses the two-volume publication of the diaries by Ivan Lysiak-Rudnyts'kyi, aka Ivan L. Rudnytsky (1919–1984) – a historian who has had a profound influence on modern Ukrainian historical writing. Specifically, the essay looks at what role, if any, Rudnytsky's Jewish ancestry played in his private contemplations, especially in the 1930s and during the Nazi occupation of Poland and Ukraine, as well as in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust. The diaries reveal Rudnytsky's deeply embedded cultural and racial antisemitism, which can be explained in part by his traumatic realization that he belonged to a stigmatized minority that later became a potential target of genocide. With time, Rudnytsky developed a genuine interest in Judaism and Jewish culture. Still, even decades after the war, he never mentioned the Holocaust and the participation of different Ukrainian political groups in it.
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Bernacki, Marek, and Jack J. B. Hutchens. "Memory and Reflection." Polish Review 68, no. 1 (April 1, 2023): 75–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/23300841.68.1.05.
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Abstract This article discusses five little-known texts by Czesław Miłosz that remained unpublished until 2020. Written between 1946 and 1968, they have been recovered from archival collections only recently and published in Miłosz's Z archiwum. Wybór publicystyki z lat 1945–2004 [From the archive: Selected journalistic writings, 1945–2004]. My discussion focuses on Miłosz's statements concerning the Holocaust, with particular emphasis on the Warsaw Ghetto uprising (April-May 1943). I argue that the testimonies left by Miłosz in the form of poems, essays, and journalism create a community of memory, while also revealing empathy and solidarity with the victims of genocidal violence. Miłosz emerges here not only as an eyewitness to the atrocities and a firm opponent of antisemitism, but also as a moral witness. Despite some controversies of a personal and political nature, a telling example of Miłosz's attitude towards the Jewish insurgents who died in Warsaw are his words in a 1979 letter to Jerzy Giedroyc: “I will not be able to cope with my life because an honest man should have gone to the Warsaw ghetto and died there.”
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King, Charles. "Can There Be a Political Science of the Holocaust?" Perspectives on Politics 10, no. 2 (May 25, 2012): 323–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537592712000692.
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The substantial literature on mass violence, from ethnic cleansing to civil wars, has paid surprisingly little attention to the largest instance of mass violence in human history: the Holocaust. When political scientists have approached the subject, the trend has been to treat the Holocaust as a single case, comparing it—sometimes controversially—with other instances of genocide such as Rwanda or Cambodia. But historically grounded work on the destruction of European Jewry can help illuminate the microfoundations of violent politics, unpack the relationship between a ubiquitous violence-inducing ideology (antisemitism) and highly variable murder, and recast old questions about the origins and evolution of the Holocaust itself. After reviewing new trends in history-writing, I highlight opportunities for social-scientifically oriented research centered on the interaction of state power, local communities, and violent mobilization in five areas: military occupation, repertoires of violence, alliance politics, genocidal policymaking, and resistance. My conclusion addresses thorny issues of comparison, morality, and memory.
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Cardozo, Kristen Hanley. "T.S. Kord. Lovable Crooks and Loathsome Jews: Antisemitism in German and Austrian Crime Writing Before the World Wars." Crime Fiction Studies 1, no. 2 (September 2020): 257–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cfs.2020.0025.
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Magilow, Daniel H. "Lovable Crooks and Loathsome Jews: Antisemitism in German and Austrian Crime Writing Before the World Wars, T. S. Kord." Antisemitism Studies 4, no. 1 (April 2020): 176–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/antistud.4.1.08.
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Hechler, Andreas. "An ideology of erasure." Psychotherapy & Politics International 20, no. 3 (August 31, 2022): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/ppi.v20i3.06.
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The discrimination faced by intersex people plays a major role in their life, including therapeutic and psychological settings. Thus, the range and expression of interphobia is crucial for therapists and practitioners to understand as part of an inter-affirmative therapeutic approach. The article examines the writings of key proponents the German-speaking extreme right, with the understanding that many of these interphobic ideas hold true for society at large. By analysing seven interphobic strategies used by the extreme right, we understand how their narratives about intersex people continue to propagate a two-sex hegemony. The seven strategies are: ignore, deny, pathologise, employ paternalism, conjure up the polarity of man and woman, make direct attacks, and functionalise completely different issues to further their political agenda. The article explores the intrinsic entanglement of interphobia with racism, antisemitism, nationalism, social Darwinism, two-sex ideology, heterosexism, cissexism, and sexism and it is also a reconstruction of relevant discourses in sexology, psychology, and gender studies. I advocate for an understanding of human development that is non-hierarchical and therefore does not value any particular expression of human bodies over any other. Pathologisation and ‘fixing’ is contraindicated to healing and resilience, and if therapy is to be inter-affirmative, it needs to accurately reflect the interphobic lived realities of clients’ lives.
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Nattiez, Jean-Jacques. "L’antisémitisme de Wagner et les différentes formes sémiotiques." Semiotica 2020, no. 234 (October 25, 2020): 271–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2019-0014.
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AbstractIn his essay “La judéité dans la musique,” Richard Wagner’s horrid portrayal of a Jew by way of physical, economical, linguistic and musical description exposed his anti-Semitic convictions. Much of this aspect has either been forgotten or softened, however, when evoking Wagner, it is in fact the relationship between his anti-Semitism and his work that is the most problematic. This paper proposes to consider three symbolic forms through which this reticence is expressed by looking at the the theoretical writings, opera booklets and their music. Using the Beckmesser character in Les Maîtres Chanteurs de Nuremberg, although Beckmesser is not introduced as a Jew but rather a good German bourgeois, one cannot deny the allegory positioning him as a Jew. First element of demonstration: the analogical resemblance between Beckmesser and the Viennese music critic Eduard Hanslick to whom Wagner accused of hiding his Jewishness. Second element: it has already been proven that Beckmesser’s serenade sung during the second act to the Master Singers was a mockery of a Jewish prayer. Third element: in Cosima’s, Wagner’s wife, diary she explains that this particular piece generated at that time a strong reaction by the Jewish community in Vienna, thus supporting the claim that his antisemitism was already known and problematic to his contemporaries.
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Kwan, Jonathan. "Politics, Liberal Idealism and Jewish Life in Nineteenth-Century Vienna: The Formative Years of Heinrich Jaques (1831–1894)1." Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 64, no. 1 (2019): 197–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/leobaeck/ybz007.
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Abstract This article addresses the formative years of the liberal parliamentarian Heinrich Jaques (1831–1894). It traces his family life, social world, education, professional career, and public activities prior to his election to parliament in 1879. The focus is on Jaques's personal perspective as he negotiated various events and influences. The article argues that the combined effects of the 1848–49 revolutions and an intense engagement with German humanist classics forged a strong loyalty and commitment to liberal values. This was manifested both in politics (as a belief in liberal reforms to Austria) and in everyday life (as guiding principles in daily conduct). For Jaques’s generation in particular, the possibility of emancipation, integration, and acceptance was a goal to strive towards. Jaques pursued and articulated this vision in his writings and activities. His impressive achievements in the 1860s and 1870s are an example of the energy and hope of many Jews during the liberal era. For a number of reasons—economic downturn, widening democracy, a mobilized Catholic Church, resentment towards the liberal elites—antisemitism became an increasingly powerful factor in politics from the 1880s onwards. For Jaques and his fellow liberal Jews, the effect was profound. History and progress no longer seemed to be on the side of liberalism and Jewish integration. Nevertheless, for a certain milieu, the dreams of liberal humanism remained a strong and guiding presence in their lives.
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Van Schaik, F. "Vrijheid van meningsuiting en godsdienst versus het nondiscriminatiebeginsel." Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal/Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad 3, no. 2 (July 10, 2017): 64. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2000/v3i2a2888.
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A certain tension between freedom of expression and the proscription of discrimination is present in post World War II international law. This tension is dealt with differently in different jurisdictions. This contribution addresses the manner in which the lawgiver and courts of the Netherlands have approached the matter.With reference to the relevant legal sources, the manner in which the law dealt with insult (especially of Jews and Roman Catholics) in the first half of the twentieth century is described, followed by a description of the reaction of some countries to the Convention on the Eradication of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD). The Netherlands government chose to build its implementation of CERD on the existing law of insult, making insult on grounds of race, religion, life view, gender or sexual orientation punishable. This has created a specific tension regarding the freedom of expression in insult cases.The relevant jurisprudence is discussed under three headings: * suspected antisemitism * extreme rightist politics * history writing on World War II and nazismThe wish of the Netherlands government has been to deal with the combating of racial discrimination in a manner which would not lead to undue limitations on the freedom of expression. Partly due to the nature of CERD, which was ratified by the Netherlands without reservation, the implementing legislation has however made strong inroads into freedom of expression. In the jurisprudence race was given a wide meaning while the courts held on to the doctrine on insult not requiring animus iniuriandi and accepting dolus eventualis as sufficient. Thus racial insult is easily established, limiting freedom of expression to a larger extent than in countries such as the USA and UK.
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Sobkin, Vladimir S., and Gleb D. Emelin. "Vygotsky's criticism of fascism in German psychology of the 1930s: political, socio-psychological and personal contexts." Moscow University Psychology Bulletin, no. 3 (2023): 189–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.11621/lpj-23-33.
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Background. This study discusses one of the last Vygotsky`s works — the fourth chapter in «Fascism in Psychoneurology» bulletin (1934). Motivation of the author to write this text is analyzed in the broad context of sociopolitical and personal aspects of his life: general growth of sociopsychological tension, repressions that touched Vygotsky`s family in 1930s, personally significant Jewish question and antisemitism in nazi Germany. In addition, joint letter from R.N. Vygodskaya and L.S. Vygotsky to D.I. Vygodsky published for the first time. This letter mentioned the arrest of Vygotsky`s cousin L.I. Vygodsky. Objective. The aim of the study was to reconstruct personal meanings and circumstances of L.S. Vygotsky in writing a chapter for «Fascism in Psychoneurology» bulletin. Methods. Elements of source analysis, search and analysis of archival documents, theoretical analysis of literature on L.S. Vygotsky`s biography. Results. The analysis showed that Vygotsky and Luria`s criticism of Fascism in psychology is built around several topics: criticism of the basic anthropological idea of the Third Reich about the predestination of human development depending on «blood and race»; an analysis of the process of politicization and ideologization of science, exemplified by the concept of «Integrationstypologie» introduced by E.R. Jaensch, which Vygotsky criticizes; political self-defense of Soviet scientists against possible persecution; the issue of national self-determination of Soviet Jewish scientists. Conclusion. Authors of this article suggested that this work may be seen not only as a scientific criticism and assertion of humanistic values in psychology but also as an act of political self-defense from sanctions and persecution that took place during the second half of the 1930s.
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Yasin, Agus, and Ahmad Faizin Soleh. "Etika Talmud Babylonia terhadap Non-Yahudi." Journal on Education 5, no. 3 (February 22, 2023): 10364–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.31004/joe.v5i3.1934.
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Talmud is the primary cripture of Jewish, and majority of Jewish take Talmud as way of life than torah as second scripture of Jewish. Talmud has devide two parts; Jerussalem and Babylonian Talmud. But now, majority of Jewish use Babylonian Talmud because it was more complete and easier to understand. The teachings on Talmud have teached about ethics in social life, civil right, politics, and criminal laws. But these teachings are very disadvantageous for non-Jewish. And also the teachings have denied ten commandement in the torah as the sripture. Therefore, based on the teaching of Ethics on Babylonian Talmud toward non-Jewish, the writer want to discuss what is the basic foundation of ethical verses on Babylonian Talmud, and the impact and the influence of those teachings. And so the teaching which is dangerous for non-Jewish have coused damage and violence in the life of non-Jewish and life in the world. And the damage and the violence which ware made Israel, come from the teaching on Babylonian Talmud and the teaching of ethics in cosial life, civil right, politics, and criminal laws have already been applied in their daily activities right now. This is the underlying reason for non-Jewish and jewish who hold in torah (antisemitism) to ignore the existence and cannot recognized as scripture. This study uses a descriptive qualitative research method with a data analysis approach from the main sources and books related to the Talmud and its teachings. Through this writing, the author finds a conflict between the teachings in the Talmud and the 10 commandments that have been taught in the Torah, and the formation of ethics in each of these teachings.
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Abromeit, John. "Guilt and Defense: On the Legacies of National Socialism in Postwar Germany. By Theodor W. Adorno. Edited, translated, and introduced by, Jeffrey K. Olick and Andrew J. Perrin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv+233. $39.95.Group Experiment and Other Writings: The Frankfurt School on Public Opinion in Postwar Germany. By Friedrich Pollock, Theodor W. Adorno, and colleagues. Edited, translated, and introduced by, Andrew J. Perrin and Jeffrey K. Olick. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. Pp. lxiv+203. $49.95.Dialectic of Solidarity: Labor, Antisemitism, and the Frankfurt School. By Mark P. Worrell. Studies in Critical Social Sciences, volume 11. Edited by David Fasenfest. Leiden: Brill, 2008. Pp. xviii+350. $144.00." Journal of Modern History 85, no. 1 (March 2013): 161–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/668715.
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Thomas, James M. "Race, Nation, and the Color-Line in the Twenty-First Century: A Du Boisian Analysis." Social Problems, December 3, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spaa070.
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Abstract This article argues that Du Bois’s tripartite framework consisting of the Veil, souls, and double-consciousness helps us analyze and understand the resurgence of racialized nationalism today. I juxtapose Du Bois’s early writings on German nationalism and antisemitism with his later writings on American nationalism and anti-black racism to demonstrate how antisemitism in Germany and anti-black racism in America function as constitutive elements for their respective nationalist discourses at the turn of the twentieth century. I argue that Du Bois’s analysis of the “double problem” of German nationalism served as an important precursor of his theory of the “double problem” of American nationalism. Du Bois’s concepts, when taken together, provide a still-relevant framework through which to understand contemporary expressions of racism and xenophobia that typify emergent nationalist movements in the twenty-first century.
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Von Kellenbach, Katharina. "Guilt and the Transformation of Christian-Jewish Relations." Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 15, no. 1 (March 3, 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.6017/scjr.v15i1.12121.
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While many church bodies condemned race-based antisemitism, both during and immediately after the Holocaust, the repudiation of theological anti-Judaism (e.g., the deicide charge and supersessionism) and renunciation of anti-Jewish writings by prominent theologians (e.g., Luther) required decades of intense study and negotiation. In Germany, in particular, activists in the Jewish-Christian dialogue understand the destruction of Jewish religious life in Europe as a turning point in Christian teachings on the Jewish future. In Dresden, for instance, the campaign to rebuild the destroyed Frauenkirche was tied to the construction of a new Jewish synagogue as a penitential act of restitution.
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Malagoli, Roberta. "Incontro con la scrittura di Doron Rabinovici." 53 | 2019, no. 1 (September 26, 2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/annoc/2499-1562/2019/01/002.
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Doron Rabinovici’s work shows an intense political and cultural commitment, which takes shape in novels, documentary theatre, and historical research. This introductory overview of his most recent writings is primarily intended for those who are interested in the contribution of Jewish-Austrian literature to the current European debate on the rise of far-right movements and ideologies. Rabinovici’s provocative point of views in the interview shed light on changing concepts of Jewish identity in a global world, on the link between Israel and the Jewish diaspora, on the roots of new, yet not less dangerous forms of antisemitism, and on the impasse in the process of European cultural memory.
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Malagoli, Roberta. "Incontro con la scrittura di Doron Rabinovici Un prologo e un’intervista (dicembre 2018)." 53 | 2019, no. 1 (September 26, 2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/annoc/2499-1562/2019/06/002.
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Doron Rabinovici’s work shows an intense political and cultural commitment, which takes shape in novels, documentary theatre, and historical research. This introductory overview of his most recent writings is primarily intended for those who are interested in the contribution of Jewish-Austrian literature to the current European debate on the rise of far-right movements and ideologies. Rabinovici’s provocative point of views in the interview shed light on changing concepts of Jewish identity in a global world, on the link between Israel and the Jewish diaspora, on the roots of new, yet not less dangerous forms of antisemitism, and on the impasse in the process of European cultural memory.
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Crane, Richard Francis. ""Heart-Rending Ambivalence": Jacques Maritain and the Complexity of Postwar Catholic Philosemitism." Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 6, no. 1 (December 1, 2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.6017/scjr.v6i1.1820.
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Philosopher Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) embraced a quest for sanctity at the core of his vocation as a French Catholic intellectual. Known as an exponent of the teachings of Saint Thomas Aquinas, he also devoted considerable energies to the promotion of democracy and human rights, as well as the combat against antisemitism. Maritain has been lauded for his sometimes courageous attempts to eradicate anti-Jewish prejudice from the Christian conscience, though some prevailing interpretations oversimplify this thinker's motivations and ideas. Keeping in mind the historically-contingent and often ambivalent nature of philosemitism, this article analyzes Maritain's postwar writings on the Jewish Question and his interactions with Popes Pius XII and Paul VI, Anglican theologian James Parkes, Jewish historians Leon Poliakov and Jules Isaac, and fellow Catholic writers Paul Claudel and Francois Mauriac.
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Wiślicz, Tomasz. "Jews “Holding the Keys to the Church” and the Posthumous Career of Zelman Wolfowicz of Drohobych." Jewish History, June 23, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10835-023-09447-9.
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AbstractAt the end of the nineteenth century in the historiography and popular writing of the three nationalities living in what was then Habsburg Galicia—Polish, Jewish, and Ukrainian—there was an ongoing debate about the motif of the alleged leasing of Orthodox churches by Jews in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The motif of the Jews “holding the keys to the church” was intended, in its own way, to justify the anti-Jewish nature of the Khmelnytsky Uprising of 1648, as well as later rebellions in Ukraine. The problem, however, was that most testimonies of such practices came from literary rather than historical sources. Therefore, the discovery in the archival sources of the character of Zelman Wolfowicz (ca. 1680–1757) from Drohobych, a factor of the starostess Dorota Tarłowa and an informal administrator of the estate, who was sentenced to death for all kinds of economic and criminal offences against the population of the demesne, could have held the key evidence confirming the thesis of the oppression of the Ukrainian people by Jewish leaseholders under the authority of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In Zelman Wolfowicz’s case, no confirmation was found that he ever “held the keys to the church.” Nevertheless, he was associated with this practice by means of a misread and misunderstood folk song, whose hero happened to bear the same name: Zelman. The power of legend, combined with antisemitic stereotypes, has caused both historiography and ethnography to bolster this image while ignoring the source evidence.
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Juresa, Jelena, and Asa Mendelsohn. "On social practices which Donna Haraway calls "Teddy Bear Patriarchy"." Documenta 37, no. 1 (January 14, 2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.21825/documenta.81903.
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Jelena Jureša’s video installation Aphasia consists of three chapters, each focusing on the absurdity arising from the collective silence surrounding crime and the compartmentalization of historical events, tracing the line between Belgian colonialism, Austrian antisemitism and the war in Yugoslavia. The film borrows the term 'aphasia' not exclusively from medical vocabulary—where it refers to trouble finding words or losing the ability to speak—but also from the writing of scholar Ann L. Stoler, who coined the term 'colonial aphasia', referring to the occlusion of knowledge in addition to collective amnesia, and the difficulty of generating a vocabulary that associates appropriate words, or concepts with appropriate things. Aphasia brings together compartmentalized historical events, through the history of racism and eugenics, focusing on the blind spots of history and the difficulty of speaking about the troubled past. The film charts the line starting with museum dioramas through photography to film, and sees them as deeply interwoven with imperialism and colonialism, used in order to produce a template for the blooming science of biological or physical anthropology.
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Menkis, Richard. "Negotiating Ethnicity, Regionalism, and Historiography: Arthur A. Chiel and The Jews of Manitoba: A Social History." Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes, January 1, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1916-0925.19954.
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In this paper, Richard Menkis analyzes the production and reception of the earliest scholarly monograph in Canadian Jewish history. By examining Chiel’s intellectual formation, Menkis suggests that in his early communal work Chiel consciously chose a positive attitude which sought to combat despair, and that he brought that sensibility to his historical writing. Menkis also examines the context of the production of the narrative, namely the re-conception of Manitoba as a polyethnic society and the interest in ethnic histories at the Manitoba Historical Society. One of the major emphases in the Society was to show the “contributions” of the ethnic groups, which reinforced Chiel’s inclination to ignore unhappy subjects, such as antisemitism. Although Chiel studied a number of factors in the development of the Jewish community, he also reproduced some of the “blind-spots” of other histories, especially the role of left-wing politics. Not surprisingly, he was harshly criticized by those who had been excised from the history. Chiel’s work is thus also a product of a postwar climate in which the government began to encourage the engagement of ethnic groups with the society at large, but on certain conditions.
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Hernandez-Knight, Bianca. "Race and Racism in Austen Spaces: Jane Austen and Regency Romance's Racist Legacy." ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 11, no. 2 (December 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/2157-7129.11.2.1291.
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Jane Austen is a master of genre, and her allusions and direct references in her Juvenilia and Northanger Abbey show that she is not just a satirist, she clearly understood and even appreciated the works she was often making fun of. So why then are people so reluctant to discuss Austen and Regency Romance, a genre directly tied to Austen’s works? Deeper still, why is there avoidance to critically read Georgette Heyer’s work? The evolution of Regency-centered fiction cannot be discussed without looking at Heyer, an antisemitic and racist author whose abridged works have worked to overhaul her problematic writing, and someone who has been a gateway into the Regency fiction world for many. When talking about modern Regency-set romances, readers cannot ignore the influence of Austen or Heyer, and doing so would be akin to reading Northanger Abbey without looking up any information on the horrid novels. Certainly readers can enjoy the discussion, but they are missing the scaffolding of the work. Tracing the beginnings of Regency romance as a genre, and plotting it through to today in the Bridgerton novels and the Netflix show, it becomes clear that understanding this modern genre and its history is as important to talking about Austen in pop culture as it would be to research the “horrid novels” in order to more deeply understand Northanger Abbey. Along with that context, we must also look at the gatekeeping in discussions around romance and Austen in online spaces. Why are discussions so divided and who gets to dictate who we are allowed to talk about in conjunction to Austen? Why is there reluctance to critically read about the issues of the Regency era, but also the ones laid out in the fantasy world Heyer created?
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Rupprecht, Caroline. "Melzer and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Anna Seghers’s GDR novel Die Entscheidung (1959)." Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, July 17, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/leobaeck/ybae004.
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Abstract This article is about German-Jewish author Anna Seghers (1900–1983), who spent half of her productive life in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). Though Seghers is known for her works from the 1930s and 1940s such as The Seventh Cross (1942), about a prisoner who escapes from a concentration camp, little has been published about her writings under communism, after she returned from fourteen years of exile, having survived National Socialism while active in the resistance. Her mother and aunt were murdered in the Shoah, and Seghers ostensibly discontinued addressing the National Socialist German past once the GDR was founded (in 1949). However, as this article demonstrates, her ‘socialist realist’ novel, Die Entscheidung (1959), complicates this seeming erasure of Seghers's Jewish identity, which can be seen not only in response to the increasing antisemitism in eastern Europe during the Cold War, but also attests to her actual and continuous—albeit ‘hidden’—engagement with the Jewish culture and history of her childhood and youth. Through the autobiographical character Herbert Melzer, it becomes possible to identify secret references and allusions to the Dead Sea Scrolls, first discovered in Qumran in 1947–1953—the same time at which Seghers set the novel. While she was confronted with surveillance, travel restrictions, and censorship, Seghers maintained her own personal exploration of Judaica, as evidenced by her published letters and the contents of her personal library (now the Anna Seghers Archive). This article argues that Seghers persisted in retaining and expressing her original Jewish self-identification through fiction, even in this, her seemingly most ‘socialist realist’ novel.