Research Catalog

Title

Comprehending antisemitism through the age : a historical perspective / edited by Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat, and Lawrence H. Schiffman.

Author

End to Antisemitism! (Conference) (2018 : Vienna, Austria), author.

Publication

• Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lange, Armin, 1961-
• Mayerhofer, Kerstin
• Porat, Dina
• Schiffman, Lawrence H.

Description

xi, 484 pages : illustrations (color); 24 cm.

Summary

"This volume traces the history of antisemitism from antiquity through contemporary manifestations of Jew-hatred. It documents the religious, sociological, political and economic contexts in which antisemitism thrived and thrives and shows how such circumstances served as support and reinforcement for a curtailment of the Jews' social status." - Page 4 of cover.

Series Statement

And end to antisemitism! ; volume 3

Subject

• Antisemitism > History > Congresses
• Antisemitism

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Note

• This series presents the findings of a conference held in Vienna in 2018 with over 150 presentations of speakers from all over the world.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Early Christian anti-Judaism / Leonard Rutgers -- Jew-hatred in antiquity : cultural, legal, and physical forms of antisemitic persecution / Armin Lange -- The blood libel and the leper libel : ancient antisemitism? / Erich S. Gruen -- Divinity, ethnicity, identity : "religion" as a political category in Christian antiquity / Paula Fredriksen -- The evolution of anti-Jewish imagery in medieval Christian Europe / Robert Chazan -- Inferiority embodied : the 'men-struating' Jew and pre-modern notions of identity and difference / Kerstin Mayerhofer -- "All the world's a stage" : imagined Jewish rituals in medieval Christian art and drama / Sara Offenberg -- Anti-Jewish legislation in the middle ages / Birgit Wiedl -- George Ritter von Schönerers Radikalisierung zum Rassenantisemiten vom Linzer Programm 1882 bis zur Gründung des "Verbandes der Deutschnationalen" 1885 / Michael Wladika -- The defense against antisemitism : minor victories, major defeats, 1890-1939 / Richard S. Levy -- The Jewish response to antisemitism in Austria prior to the Anschluss / Doron Rabinovici -- Nazi propaganda in the Middle East and its repercussions in the postwar period / Matthias Küntzel -- Is the Holocaust a unique historical event? A debate between two pillars of Holocaust research and its impact on the study of antisemitism / Dina Porat -- Caribbean Jewry : a model of tolerance or assimilation? / Florette Cohen Abady and Daniel Kaplin -- Sholem Aleichem and Qumran : Jewish-related scholarship in the Soviet Union, 1953-1967 / Gennady Estraikh -- Sister Rose Thering's battle against antisemitism / Alan Silberstein -- Antisemitism in today's America / Alvin H. Rosenfeld -- Antisemitic perceptions and Jewish sense of belonging / Haim Fireberg -- The German Left and Israel / Matthias J. Becker -- Comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany in contemporary German discourse / Linda Giesel -- "Israel threatens to defend itself" : the depiction of Israel in the media / Florian Markl.

Call Number

JFE 23-1166

ISBN

• 3110582325
• 9783110582321

OCLC

1249270116

Conference

End to Antisemitism! (Conference) (2018 : Vienna, Austria), author.

Title

Comprehending antisemitism through the age : a historical perspective / edited by Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat, and Lawrence H. Schiffman.

Publisher

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

And end to antisemitism! ; volume 3

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Lange, Armin, 1961- editor.

Mayerhofer, Kerstin, editor.

Porat, Dina, editor.

Schiffman, Lawrence H., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 23-1166