Jewish self-hatred : anti-Semitism and the hidden language of the Jews / Sander L. Gilman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilman, Sander L.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Germany--Psychology.

Jews.

Antisemitism--Germany--Psychological aspects.

Antisemitism.

Self-hate (Psychology).

Psychological aspects.

Psychology.

Germany--Ethnic relations.

Germany.

Ethnic relations.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 461 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore ; London : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [1986]

Contents:

What is self-hatred?

The Drive for Conversion. The special language of the Jews; The converts and the Jews' books; The Christian reaction and the origin of Jewish self-hatred; The self-hatred of the convert; Luther's Judaeophobia and the Jewish convert

The Spirit of Toleration. The language of thieves; The discourse of the Jews; Language and identity; The creation of the schlemiel; Living schlemiels

The Drive for Assimilation. The secret tongue of the Jews; The rhetoric of self-hatred: Börne; The farceur: Heine's ambivalence; The child convert: Karl Marx

The Science of Race. The linguistics of anti-semitism; Toward a philosophy of language; Toward a psychology of language; The invention of the eastern Jew; The development of the concept of self-hatred

The Ashes of the Holocaust and the Closure of Self-Hatred. The language of silence; The language of survival and the projection of self-hatred; The dead child speaks: Reading 'The Diary of Anne Frank'; The language of the mad; Closure.

Notes:

"This book was composed in Trump Medieval ... from a design by Martha Farlow. It was printed on 50-lb. Sebago Eggshell Cream Offset paper."

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has highlighted passages, underlines, marginal marks and ms. annotations throughout.

ISBN:

0801832764

OCLC:

12262780