Interpreting Antisemitism : Studies and Essays on the German Case.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Volkov, Shulamit.

Series:

Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts Series

Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts Series ; v.23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antisemitism--Germany.

Antisemitism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023.

Summary:

Being a historian of Germany and of the German-Jews in modern times, the author has written numerous essays on the history and historiography of Antisemitism in this country. Some of them are rather well-known, such as the essay on "Antisemitism as a Cultural Code", and others were printed in peripheral journals and Festschrifts or were never published in English. Since the phenomenon of Jew-hating is now once again an issue discussed by scholars and non-scholars alike, both in Europe and in the United States, and especially since it now arouses particular interest in the context of the Palestinian fight against Israel, it seems timely to re-publish these essays in a slightly revised form, and attach to them an extended introduction as well as a follow-up essay at the end, updating old notions, reformulating some and adding commentary on controversies that are being conducted today regarding the term Antisemitism, its various contexts and the phenomenon it signifies. Freshly looking at Antisemitism in Germany before, during and after National-Socialism seems to be needed at this point in time.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Contents

Introduction

I Preliminaries

1 What's Wrong with the Historiography of Antisemitism? Two Reviews and Two Unanswered Questions

2 The Social and Political Function of Late Nineteenth Century Antisemitism: The Case of the Small Handicraft Masters

3 The Immunization of Social Democracy against Antisemitism in Imperial Germany

II Cultural Code and its Derivatives

4 Antisemitism as a Cultural Code: Reflections on the History and Historiography of Antisemitism in Imperial Germany

5 The Written Matter and the Spoken Word: On the Gap Between Pre-1914 and Nazi Antisemitism

6 Antisemitism and Anti-Feminism: Cultural Code or Social Norm

7 Readjusting Cultural Codes: Reflections on Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism and the Critique of Israel

III Revisions and Related Themes

8 Nationalism, Antisemitism and German Historiography

9 Language as a Locus of Confronting Jews and Judaism in Germany

10 German Jews: The Temptation of Racism

11 Interim Balance: Continuity and Discontinuity in the History of German Antisemitism

IV In the Context of National Socialism

12 Old and New Approaches to the History of National Socialism: The Double Perspective of Jews and Germans

13 Antisemitism as Explanation: For and against

14 A Comment on Brutal Antisemites and Brutal Antisemitism

15 Revisiting Friedländer on Nazi Antisemitism

16 Historiography in the Loop: Explaining Nazi Antisemitism

Epilogue

Germany after 1945 or the Return of Cultural Code

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783110762280

3110762285

OCLC:

1394119441