Antisemitism Christian Ambivalence And The Holocaust

Author : Kevin P. Spicer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253116741

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Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence, and the Holocaust by Kevin P. Spicer Pdf

Thirteen essays exploring the role of antisemitism in the political and intellectual life of Europe. In recent years, the mask of tolerant, secular, multicultural Europe has been shattered by new forms of antisemitic crime. Though many of the perpetrators do not profess Christianity, antisemitism has flourished in Christian Europe. In this book, thirteen scholars of European history, Jewish studies, and Christian theology examine antisemitism’s insidious role in Europe’s intellectual and political life. The essays reveal that annihilative antisemitic thought was not limited to Germany, but could be found in the theology and liturgical practice of most of Europe’s Christian churches. They dismantle the claim of a distinction between Christian anti-Judaism and neo-pagan antisemitism and show that, at the heart of Christianity, hatred for Jews overwhelmingly formed the milieu of twentieth-century Europe. “This volume’s inclusion of essays on several different Christian traditions, as well as the Jewish perspective on Christian antisemitism make it especially valuable for understanding varieties of Christian antisemitism and ultimately, the practice and consequences of exclusionary thinking in general. In bringing a range of theological and historical perspectives to bear on the question of Christian and Nazi antisemitism, the book broadens our view on the question, and is of great value to historians and theologians alike.” —Maria Mazzenga, Catholic University of America, H-Catholic, February 2009 “Sheds light on and offers steps to overcome the locked-in conflict between Jews and Christians along the antisemitic path from Calvary to Auschwitz and beyond.” —Zev Garber, Los Angeles Valley College and American Jewish University, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1 Fall 2008

Author : William Nicholls
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : 9781568215198

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Christian Antisemitism by William Nicholls Pdf

In Christian Antisemitism: A History of Hate, Professor William Nicholls, a former minister in the Anglican Church and the founder of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia, presents his stunning research, stating that Christian teaching is primarily responsible for antisemitism.

Author : R. Michael
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230601987

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Holy Hatred by R. Michael Pdf

Although Christianity's precise influence on the Holocaust cannot be determined and the Christian churches did not themselves perpetrate the Final Solution, Michael argues that two millennia of Christian ideas and prejudices and their impact on Christians' behaviour appear to be the major basis of antisemitism and it's apex, the Holocaust.

Author : Edward H. Flannery
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 0809143240

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The Anguish of the Jews by Edward H. Flannery Pdf

Written by a Catholic priest, this classic book on antisemitism traces the events of twenty-three centuries, including Christian involvement in this tragic story.

Author : Armin Lange,Kerstin Mayerhofer,Dina Porat,Lawrence H. Schiffman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110671889

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Confronting Antisemitism from the Perspectives of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism by Armin Lange,Kerstin Mayerhofer,Dina Porat,Lawrence H. Schiffman Pdf

This volume engages with antisemitic stereotypes as religious symbols that express and transmit a belief system of Jew-hatred. These religious symbols are stored in Christian, Muslim and even today’s secular cultural and religious memories. This volume explores how antisemitic religious symbol systems can play a key role in the construction of group identities.

Author : Robert S. Wistrich
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803240834

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From Ambivalence to Betrayal by Robert S. Wistrich Pdf

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.

Author : Alan T. Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015009321806

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Antisemitism and the Foundations of Christianity by Alan T. Davies Pdf

Author : Randolph L. Braham,City University of New York. Institute for Holocaust Studies
Publisher : Eastern European Monographs
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015012171057

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The Origins of the Holocaust by Randolph L. Braham,City University of New York. Institute for Holocaust Studies Pdf

Author : Stephen R. Haynes
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664255795

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Reluctant Witnesses by Stephen R. Haynes Pdf

Stephen Haynes takes a hard look at contemporary Christian theology as he explores the pervasive Christian "witness-people" myth that dominates much Christian thinking about the Jews in both Christian and Jewish minds. This myth, an ancient theological construct that has put Jews in the role of living symbols of God's dealings with the world, has for centuries, according to Haynes, created an ambivalence toward the Jews in the Christian mind with often disastrous results. Tracing the witness-people myth from its origins to its manifestations in the modern world, Haynes finds the myth expressed in many unexpected places: the writings of Karl Barth, the novels and essays of Walker Percy, the "prophetic" writings of Hal Lindsey, as well as in the work of some North American Holocaust theologians such as Alice L. and A. Roy Eckardt, Paul van Buren, and Franklin Littell.

Author : Kevin P. Spicer,Rebecca Carter-Chand
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228010203

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Religion, Ethnonationalism, and Antisemitism in the Era of the Two World Wars by Kevin P. Spicer,Rebecca Carter-Chand Pdf

In the wake of the devastating First World War, leaders of the victorious powers reconfigured the European continent, resulting in new understandings of nation, state, and citizenship. Religious identity, symbols, and practice became tools for politicians and church leaders alike to appropriate as instruments to define national belonging, often to the detriment of those outside the faith tradition. Religion, Ethnonationalism, and Antisemitism in the Era of the Two World Wars places the interaction between religion and ethnonationalism – a particular articulation of nationalism based upon an imagined ethnic community – at the centre of its analysis, offering a new lens through which to analyze how nationalism, ethnicity, and race became markers of inclusion and exclusion. Those who did not embrace the same ethnonationalist vision faced ostracization and persecution, with Jews experiencing pervasive exclusion and violence as centuries of antisemitic Christian rhetoric intertwined with right-wing nationalist extremism. The thread of antisemitism as a manifestation of ethnonationalism is woven through each of the essays, along with the ways in which individuals sought to critique religious ethnonationalism and the violence it inspired. With case studies from the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Finland, Croatia, Ukraine, and Romania, Religion, Ethnonationalism, and Antisemitism in the Era of the Two World Wars thoroughly explores the confluence of religion, race, ethnicity, and antisemitism that led to the annihilative destruction of the Second World War and the Holocaust, challenging readers to identify and confront the inherent dangers of narrowly defined ideologies.

Author : Judith Herschcopf Banki,Judith Hershcopf Banki,John Pawlikowski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1580511090

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Ethics in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Judith Herschcopf Banki,Judith Hershcopf Banki,John Pawlikowski Pdf

It is not enough to probe the historical details of the cataclysmic event of the Holocaust. We need to understand how the Nazis unleashed cultural, political, and religious forces that remain very much with us as we enter the new millennium. Ethics in the Shadow of the Holocaust examines these forces with contributions from seventeen leading scholars on the Holocaust and on Christian-Jewish relations.

Author : Donald Dietrich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351517232

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God and Humanity in Auschwitz by Donald Dietrich Pdf

God and Humanity in Auschwitz synthesizes the findings of research developed over the last thirty years on the rise of anti-Semitism in our civilization. Donald J. Dietrich sees the Holocaust as a case study of how prejudice has been theologically enculturated. He suggests how it may be controlled by reducing aggressive energy before it becomes overwhelming. Dietrich studies the recent responses of Christian theologians to the Holocaust and the Jewish theological response to questions concerning God's covenant with Israel, which were provoked by Auschwitz. Social science has dealt with the psychosocial dynamics that have supported genocide and helps explain how ordinary persons can produce extraordinary evil. Dietrich shows how this research, combined with theological analyses, can help reconfigure theology itself. Such an approach may serve to help dissolve anti-Semitism, to aid in constructing such positive values as respect for human dignity, and to point the way to restricting future outbreaks of genocide. God and Humanity in Auschwitz surveys which religious factors created a climate that permitted the Holocaust. It also illuminates what social science has to tell us about developing a strategy that, when institutionally implemented, can channel our energies away from sanctioned murder toward a more compassionate society. The book has proven to be an essential resource for theologians, sociologists, historians, and political theorists.

Author : Anthony McElligott,Jeffrey Herf
Publisher : Springer
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319488660

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Antisemitism Before and Since the Holocaust by Anthony McElligott,Jeffrey Herf Pdf

Divided into five discrete sections, this book examines the issue of Holocaust denial, and in some cases "Holocaust inversion" in North America, Europe, and the Middle East and its relationship to the history of antisemitism before and since the Holocaust. It thus offers both a historical and contemporary perspective. This volume includes observations by leading scholars, delivering powerful, even controversial essays by scholars who are reporting from the ‘frontline.’ It offers a discussion on the relationship between Christianity and Islam, as well as the historical and contemporary issues of antisemitism in the USA, Europe, and the Middle East. This book explores how all of these issues contribute consciously or otherwise to contemporary antisemitism. The chapters of this volume do not necessarily provide a unity of argument – nor should they. Instead, they expose the plurality of positions within the academy and reflect the robust discussions that occur on the subject.

Author : Albert S. Lindemann,Richard S. Levy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199235032

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Antisemitism by Albert S. Lindemann,Richard S. Levy Pdf

An overview of the history and nature of antisemitism from earliest times to the present, from a team of leading international specialists in the field.

Author : F. Schweitzer,M. Perry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781403979124

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Anti-Semitism by F. Schweitzer,M. Perry Pdf

In this provocative book, Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer analyze the lies, misperceptions, and myths about Jews and Judaism that anti-semites have propagated throughout the centuries. Beginning with antiquity, and continuing into the present day, the authors explore the irrational fabrications that have led to numerous acts of violence and hatred against Jews. The book examines ancient and medieval myths central to the history of anti-semitism: Jews as 'Christ-killers', instruments of Satan, and ritual murderers of Christian children. It also explores the scapegoating of Jews in the modern world as conspirators bent on world domination; extortionists who manufactured the Holocaust as a hoax designed to gain reparation payments from Germany; and the leaders of the slave trade that put Africa in chains. No other book has focused its attention exclusively on a thematic discussion of historic and contemporary anti-semitic myths, covering such an expansive scope of time, and allowing for such a painstaking level of exemplification. Anti-semitism is an essential book that will serve as a corrective to bigotry, stereotype, and historical distortion.