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Comprehending antisemitism through the ages

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"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.

Title Comprehending antisemitism through the ages : a historical perspective / edited by Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat, and Lawrence H. Schiffman.
Contributors Lange, Armin, 1961- (editor)
Mayerhofer, Kerstin (editor)
Porat, Dina (editor)
Schiffman, Lawrence H. (editor)
Publisher Berlin
Boston : De Gruyter
Creation Date [2021]
Notes This series presents the findings of a conference held in Vienna in 2018 with over 150 presentations of speakers from all over the world.
Includes bibliographical references.
Content 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 I
Series And end to antisemitism!
volume 3
Extent xi, 484 pages : illustrations (color)
24 cm.
Language English
Copyright Date ©2021
National Library system number 997010469762205171

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