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The emergence of the state of Israel has fundamentally changed the conditions of Jewish existence. The issues now facing Jews everywhere are totally different to those that confronted them only fifty years ago. This book provides the only thoroughly worldwide modern history of the Jews of the Diaspora. Robert Wistrich has drawn together an outstanding collection of authors from the United States, Europe and Israel in order to analyse the immense changes that have taken place since 1945 in a comprehensive, yet original, manner.Cultural, religious, domestic, political, economic and occupational

In einer politischen Analyse der Situation in Mitteleuropa und Osteuropa nach dem Ende des Kommunismus wird festgestellt, daß das alte Feindbild des Nationalsozialismus, der Antisemitismus auch heute noch unvermindert existiert. Warum dies so ist, wird an der Entwicklung einiger osteuropäischer Länder erläutert. Es wird gezeigt, daß in Osteuropa der Antizionismus dazu beitrug, daß der alte Antisemitismus sowohl als von oben verordnete Politik als auch in Gestalt des populären, von unten kommenden Ressentiments gegen die Juden weiterlebte. Dies wird für Polen, Ungarn, Rumänien, die Tschechoslowakei und Kroatien beschrieben. Im Rückblick auf die Geschichte, die zeigt, daß für die Einschätzung des osteuropäischen Antisemitismus die Situation in der Mitte Europas, also in Deutschland und Österreich, besonders relevant ist, wird gefragt, welche Verantwortung Deutschland für das erneute Aufkommen des Fremdenhasses und des Antisemitismus hat. Ausgehend davon, daß sich der volkstümliche Antisemitismus des traditionellen Bildes vom Juden als ausbeuterischen Kapitalisten bediente, wird als Ergebnis festgestellt, daß der Übergang zum freien Markt und zu einer auf Wettbewerb beruhenden Wirtschaft in Osteuropa mit den daraus resultierenden ökonomischen Verwerfungen dieser ältesten Spielart des Antisemitismus, die ihrem Wesen nach antikapitalistisch ist, heute zu einer Renaissance verhelfen. (ICA)

"Although early Zionist thinkers, perhaps naively, believed that with sovereignty, anti-Jewish persecution would end, anti-Zionism has become one form of the "new" antisemitism following World War II. Because antisemitism has not been effectively addressed, anti-Jewish rhetoric, activism, and deadly violence have flourished around the world. In Anti-Judaism, Antisemitism, and Delegitimizing Israel, editor Robert S. Wistrich and an array of notable academics, journalists, and political scientists analyze multiple aspects of the current surge in anti-Jewish and anti-Israel rhetoric and violence. Contributors including Ben Cohen, R. Amy Elman, Lesley Klaff, Matthias Kuntzel, Nelly Las, Alvin H. Rosenfeld, and Efraim Sicher, among others, examine antisemitism from the perspectives of history, academia, gender, identity, and religion. Offering a variety of viewpoints and insights into disturbing trends worldwide, the contributors provide a basis for further discussion and increased efforts to counter the increasingly vocal and violent hatred of Jews and Israel"--

At the close of the twentieth century the stereotyping and demonization of 'others', whether on religious, nationalist, racist, or political grounds, has become a burning issue. Yet comparatively little attention has been paid to how and why we fabricate images of the 'other' as an enemy or 'demon' to be destroyed. This innovative book fills that gap through an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural approach that brings together a distinguished array of historians, anthropologists, psychologists, literary critics, and feminists.The historical sweep covers Greco-Roman Antiquity, the MIddle Ages

From Ambivalence to Betrayal is the first study to explore the transformation in attitudes on the Left toward the Jews, Zionism, and Israel since the origins of European socialism in the 1840s until the present. This pathbreaking synthesis reveals a striking continuity in negative stereotypes of Jews, contempt for Judaism, and negation of Jewish national self-determination from the days of Karl Marx to the current left-wing intellectual assault on Israel. World-renowned expert on the history of antisemitism Robert S. Wistrich provides not only a powerful analysis of how and why the Left emerged as a spearhead of anti-Israel sentiment but also new insights into the wider involvement of Jews in radical movements. There are fascinating portraits of Marx, Moses Hess, Bernard Lazare, Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, and other Jewish intellectuals, alongside analyses of the darker face of socialist and Communist antisemitism. The closing section eloquently exposes the degeneration of leftist anti-Zionist critiques into a novel form of "anti-racist" racism

Introduction : Jews and antisemitism in central European culture -- The ethnic cauldron of the Habsburg empire -- Adolf Fischof and the tragedy of liberalism -- Austro-Marxist interpretations of the "Jewish Question" -- Rosa Luxemburg, Polish socialism, and the Bund -- The strange odyssey of Nathan Birnbaum -- Max Nordau : from "degeneration" to "muscular Judaism" -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Germany, and the Jewish "Superman" -- Theodor Herzl : artist, politician, and social utopian -- In the footsteps of "King Messiah" -- The last testament of Dr. Sigmund Freud -- Stefan Zweig and the "World of yesterday" -- Karl Kraus : an anatomy of self-hatred -- Karl Lueger and Catholic judeophobia in Austria -- Adolf Hitler : the making of an antisemite