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Der Antisemitismus ist ein emotionaler Selbstbedienungsladen. Er erfüllt tiefsitzende Bedürfnisse, die mit Argumenten nicht als "falsche" widerlegt werden können. Er hat nichts mit dem Verhalten von Juden zu tun, weil jedes denkbare jüdische Verhalten nur eine andere Sorte von Antisemiten aktiviert. Der Antisemitismus hat überhaupt nur bedingt etwas mit Juden zu tun. Er kommt, wenn es sein muß, auch ohne den leibhaftigen Gegenstand seiner Leidenschaft aus. Juden dienen nur als Katalysator dieses diffusen Gefühls. Der Antisemitismus ist kein abweichendes, sondern das Normalverhalten, nicht die Ausnahme von der Regel, sondern die Regel selbst. Er ist im übrigen das Problem der Antisemiten. Der Antizionismus hat im Kern dieselbe libidinöse Qualität wie der Antisemitismus. Nur ist anstelle des religiösen oder rassischen Motivs ein scheinbar politisches getreten, das Menschen mit aufgeklärtem Bewußtsein ohne sich zu schämen, vertreten können. (DO)

This dissertation is about Mormon views on landscape and resource use from Euro-American settlement in what is today southern Utah and southeastern Nevada, to the current range battles over public lands. In journals, articles, interviews, videos, and blog posts, a record of grazing and extraction during early settlement through the opening of tourism and modern federal management exists; these materials portray religious and utilitarian views on landscape and justify land use accordingly. Opinions over the appropriate use of federal lands, cultural biases and differing notions of ownership present a wide disparity on regional and national perceptions of suitable uses of federal property. Most urban Americans want to access public lands for reasons other than resource extraction. Western ranchers and their supporters, on the other hand, want to use public land for economic purposes. A group of Mormon ranchers justify their position through ancestry, entitlement and religious beliefs. The result has been a protracted conflict, in Mormon homeland, between the federal government, regional residents and the broader American public. This dissertation tracks early land use by Southern Paiute and Mormons; the history of grazing on federal lands and the establishment of national parks and monuments in Mormon country; and current armed conflicts over land use.

"Iber considers why many in the Utah Hispanic comunidad are leaving Catholicism for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). He examines how conversion affects the Spanish-speaking population and how these Hispanic believers are affecting the Mormon Church." "Iber also concentrates on the geographic separation of Hispanics in Utah from their Mexican, Latin American, New Mexican, and Coloradoan roots. He examines patterns of Hispanic assimilation and acculturation in a setting which is vastly different from other Western and Southwestern states." "Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, 1912-1999 is an important source for scholars in ethnic studies, American studies, religion, and Western history. Drawing on both oral and written histories collected by the University of Utah and many notable organizations including the American G.I. Forum, SOCIO, Centro de la Familia, the Salt Lake Catholic Diocese, and the LDS Church, Iber has compiled an interesting and informative study of the experience of Hispanics in Utah."--BOOK JACKET