The postwar antisemite : culture and complicity after the Holocaust / Lisa Silverman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silverman, Lisa, 1969- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antisemitism--Germany--History--20th century.

Antisemitism.

Antisemitism--Austria--History--20th century.

Racism--United States--History--20th century.

Racism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (unpaged) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

In the wake of the Holocaust, Austrians, Germans, and others often turned to a figural Antisemite to come to terms with their altered political, economic, and cultural circumstances and to shape new national and moral self-understandings. This spectral figure of the Antisemite came into being after Nazi atrocities made explicit expressions of antisemitism socially taboo in Europe and the United States. As 'The Postwar Antisemite' explains, the damaging effects of the figural Antisemite, set in motion in Central Europe immediately after the Second World War, spread far beyond Europe's borders and continue to this day.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Introduction: Ida Ehre Breaks Down at the Bundestag

Inventing the Antisemite

Jewish Victims

Part I West Germany: The Patriot and the Antisemite

1 Harlan's Jews: Dora Gerson, Julius Bab, and the Legacy of Jud Süss

A German Patriot: Julius Bab

Harlan as Jud Süss

The Last Word: Veit Harlan's Autobiography

Harlan and the Aftermath of Jud Süss

2 Harlan's Antisemites: Karena Niehoff Testifies in Hamburg

Harlan's Antisemite

Whose Antisemitism? The Jud Süss Screenplay

Niehoff's Testimony: Conflicting Accounts

Hamburg's Antisemites

Damage Control: "Der Fall Veit Harlan"

From "Judensau" to "Saujud"

Part II East Germany: The Anti-Fascist and the Antisemite

3 Alice Haas Disappears from Affaire Blum

Making Headlines

A Blum by Any Other Name

Sabine: The Antisemite's Non-Jewish Victim/Hero

Jewish Indifference

Reinscribing Antisemitism and the Liminal Antisemite in Affaire Blum, the Novel

The Fate of Alice Kussi

4 Accused as Jews: Anna Seghers and Victor Klemperer

What's in a Name?

Antisemites in Exile

Writing the Perpetrator

The Man and His Name

Victor Klemperer: German-Jewish Patriotism, Zionism, and the Antisemite

The Irony of Defining the Antisemite

Part III Austria: The Victim and the Antisemite

5 Hilde Spiel Returns to Vienna: Das andere Leben, The Emperor Waltz, and The Third Man

Mistaken Identity in Der zwanzigste Juli and Das andere Leben

Billy Wilder's The Emperor Waltz

Absent Jews, Invisible Antisemitism, and The Third Man (1949)

6 False Accusations: Der Prozess and 1. April 2000

A Death in Tiszaeszlár

The Making of Der Prozess

A Christian Savior for a Jewish Antisemite

The Austria Film-1. April 2000 (1952)

Austria as Victim . . . Just Kidding!.

The Book of Austria

Part IV The United States: The Anti-Racist and the Antisemite

7 Laura Z. Hobson Stands Up for Josephine Baker: Gentleman's Agreement

Hobson's Antisemite

Notes

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 30, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Silverman, Lisa, 1969- Postwar antisemite.

ISBN:

0-19-769774-7

0-19-769773-9

0-19-769775-5

OCLC:

1517016546

Publisher Number:

CIPO000242977