How the West Became Antisemitic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How the West Became Antisemitic write by Ivan G. Marcus. This book was released on 2024-06-11. How the West Became Antisemitic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of how the Jews—real and imagined—so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new ways In medieval Europe, Jews were not passive victims of the Christian community, as is often assumed, but rather were startlingly assertive, forming a Jewish civilization within Latin Christian society. Both Jews and Christians considered themselves to be God’s chosen people. These dueling claims fueled the rise of both cultures as they became rivals for supremacy. In How the West Became Antisemitic, Ivan Marcus shows how Christian and Jewish competition in medieval Europe laid the foundation for modern antisemitism. Marcus explains that Jews accepted Christians as misguided practitioners of their ancestral customs, but regarded Christianity as idolatry. Christians, on the other hand, looked at Jews themselves—not Judaism—as despised. They directed their hatred at a real and imagined Jew: theoretically subordinate, but sometimes assertive, an implacable “enemy within.” In their view, Jews were permanently and physically Jewish—impossible to convert to Christianity. Thus Christians came to hate Jews first for religious reasons, and eventually for racial ones. Even when Jews no longer lived among them, medieval Christians could not forget their former neighbors. Modern antisemitism, based on the imagined Jew as powerful and world dominating, is a transformation of this medieval hatred. A sweeping and well-documented history of the rivalry between Jewish and Christian civilizations during the making of Europe, How the West Became Antisemitic is an ambitious new interpretation of the medieval world and its impact on modernity.
Anti-Semitism in American History
Anti-Semitism in American History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anti-Semitism in American History write by David A. Gerber. This book was released on 1986. Anti-Semitism in American History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion write by Sergei Nilus. This book was released on 2019-02-26. The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is almost certainly fiction, but its impact was not. Originating in Russia, it landed in the English-speaking world where it caused great consternation. Much is made of German anti-semitism, but there was fertile soil for "The Protocols" across Europe and even in America, thanks to Henry Ford and others.
Jewish Emancipation
Jewish Emancipation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jewish Emancipation write by David Sorkin. This book was released on 2019-09-10. Jewish Emancipation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sorkin seeks to reorient Jewish history by offering the first comprehensive account in any language of the process by which Jews became citizens with civil and political rights in the modern world.
A Specter Haunting Europe
A Specter Haunting Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Specter Haunting Europe write by Paul Hanebrink. This book was released on 2018-11-05. A Specter Haunting Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Masterful...An indispensable warning for our own time.” —Samuel Moyn “Magisterial...Covers this dark history with insight and skill...A major intervention into our understanding of 20th-century Europe and the lessons we ought to take away from its history.” —The Nation For much of the last century, Europe was haunted by a threat of its own imagining: Judeo-Bolshevism. The belief that Communism was a Jewish plot to destroy the nations of Europe took hold during the Russian Revolution and quickly spread. During World War II, fears of a Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy were fanned by the fascists and sparked a genocide. But the myth did not die with the end of Nazi Germany. A Specter Haunting Europe shows that this paranoid fantasy persists today in the toxic politics of revitalized right-wing nationalism. “It is both salutary and depressing to be reminded of how enduring the trope of an exploitative global Jewish conspiracy against pure, humble, and selfless nationalists really is...A century after the end of the first world war, we have, it seems, learned very little.” —Mark Mazower, Financial Times “From the start, the fantasy held that an alien element—the Jews—aimed to subvert the cultural values and national identities of Western societies...The writers, politicians, and shills whose poisonous ideas he exhumes have many contemporary admirers.” —Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs
