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Jews against themselves / Edward Alexander.

Van Pelt Library DS132 .A44 2015
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Alexander, Edward, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Israel and the diaspora.
Jews--United States--Attitudes toward Israel.
Jews.
Arab-Israeli conflict.
United States.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
Jews--United States--Intellectual life.
Intellectual life.
Arab-Israeli conflict--Foreign public opinion, American.
Public opinion--United States.
Public opinion.
Israel--Foreign public opinion, American.
Israel.
Physical Description:
xxii, 156 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Transaction Publishers, [2015]
Summary:
This volume features powerful essays by Edward Alexander on the phenomenon of anti-Zionism on the part of the Jewish intelligentsia. Alexander begins with an examination of the origins of Jewish self-hatred in nineteenth-century Europe. He then explores the mindset of disaffected Jews in reacting, or failing to react, to the two events that shape modern Jewry: the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel. The book concludes with a focus on contemporary anti-Zionism, including three essays about the role played by Jews in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement to expel Israel from the family of nations. A final essay addresses the need for American Jews to decide whether they are going to judge Judaism by the standards of The New York or The New York Times by the standards of Judaism. Book jacket.
Contents:
Jewish self-hatred
Disraeli and Marx
Liberalism and Zionism
What the Holocaust does not teach
Why Jews must behave better than everybody else
Moral failure of Jewish intellectuals: past and present
The Holocaust...and me
Noam Chomsky and Holocaust denial
Antisemitism denial: the Berkeley school
Michael Lerner: Hillary Clinton's Jewish Rasputin
Ashamed Jews
Israelis against themselves
Jewish Israel-haters convert their dead grandmothers: a new Mormonism?
Jewish boycotters of Israel: how the boycott began
America's academic boycotters: the enemies of Israel neither slumber nor sleep
Jews against themselves
How long halt ye between two opinions? The New York Times vs. judaism.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781412856829
1412856825
9781412856034
1412856035
OCLC:
890011494

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