Research Catalog

Title

Antisemitism and the politics of history / edited by Scott Ury and Guy Miron.

Publication

• Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2024]
• ©2024

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ury, Scott
• Miron, Gai

Description

xiii, 384 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

This groundbreaking collection addresses the history and challenges of using "antisemitism" and related terms as tools for historical analysis and public discourse. It encourages readers to rethink long-standing assumptions regarding the meaning of Jewish history and the history of relations between jews and their neighbors. The book begins with a revised version of David Engel's seminal essay "Away from a Definition of Antisemitism." Subsequent contributions explore the various definitions and uses of the term "antisemitism" in a range of contexts, including ancient Rome and Greece; the Byzantine Empire; medieval, early modern, and modern Europe; and North America, and descusses the Holocoust and its memory. It is a critical resource for scholars, policymakers, and journalists researching antisemitism, the Holocoust, and modern Jewish society.

Series Statement

The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry

Uniform Title

• Anṭishemiyut. English.
• Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series.

Subject

Antisemitism

Note

• "A Sarnat Library Book" -- title page.
• "An earlier version of this volume was originally published in Hebrew as: (Antishemiyut: ben musag histori lesiah tsiburi) ©2020 by Zalman Shazar Center, Jerusalem" -- t.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-366) and index

Language (note)

• Translated from the Hebrew.

Contents

I. Introductory Considerations. Antisemitism : on the meanings and uses of a contested term / Scott Ury and Guy Miron -- Thinking about "antisemitism" / David Engel -- II. Methodological Explorations. History and noise / Amos Morris-Reich -- Erotohistoriography : sensory and emotional dimensions of antisemitism / Susannah Heschel -- Toward entanglement / Stefanie Schüler-Springorum -- III. Premodern Contextualizations. Separation, Judeophobia, and the birth of the "goy" : the chicken and the egg / Adi M. Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi -- Antisemitism and Islamophobia : a medieval comparison / Youval Rotman -- The term "antisemitism" as a category for the study of medieval Jewish history / Tzafrir Barzilay -- IV. Modern Contestations. "Feverish preference" : philosemitism, anti-antisemitism, and their critics / Ofri Ilany -- Cautious use of the term "antisemitism" -- for lack of an alternative : interwar Poland as a test case / Gershon Bacon -- America and the keyword battle over "antisemitism" / Eli Lederhendler -- "Fog in Channel -- continent cut off?" : remarks on antisemitism, pride, and prejudice in Britain / Arie M. Dubnov -- A retreat from universalism : opposing and defining antisemitism and Islamophobia in Britain, ca. 1990-2018 / David Feldman -- V. Post-Holocaust Ruminations. In defense of the concept of "antisemitism" in Holocaust studies / Havi Dreifuss -- "Antisemitism" as a question in Holocaust studies / Amos Goldberg and Raz Segal -- Is there Christian antisemitism? The history of an intra-Catholic debate, 1965-2000 / Karma Ben-Johanan -- VI. Concluding Explanations. Can the circle be broken? / David Engel.

Call Number

JFE 24-1268

ISBN

• 9781684581795
• 1684581796
• 9781684581801
• 168458180X

OCLC

1373338218

Title

Antisemitism and the politics of history / edited by Scott Ury and Guy Miron.

Publisher

Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2024]

Copyright Date

©2024

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry

Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-366) and index

Language

Translated from the Hebrew.

Added Author

Ury, Scott, editor.

Miron, Gai, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 24-1268