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A History of Anti-Semitism
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Please find below potential topics for your long paper (10 – 12 pages) analyzing a primary text or an issue of dispute among historians. Your topic should be chosen from this list, or if you have another topic of interest, in consultation with me.
I am providing you with the standard texts. Please feel free to expand on the bibliography provided for each topic.
A statement of your paper topic and potential bibliography should be submitted to me, a week after the midterm exam. The paper is due a week after the final lecture of this semester. Below listed are the topics and essay questions:
To what extent would you argue that the seeds of Christian anti-judaism were sowed in the Gospels?
New Testament (any translation): Matthew 23; 26:57-27:54; John 5:37-40, 8:37-47 John Dominic Crossan, Who killed Jesus: Exposing the Roots of Antisemitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus (Harper One, 1996). Gavin Langmuir, Toward a Definition of Antisemitism. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990)pp. 311-352 (on moodle). Peter Schäfer, Judaeophobia: Attitudes Toward the Jews in the Ancient World. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1997, pp. 34-64, 197-211 (on moodle). Marcel Simon, Verus Israel. Oxford: Littman Library, 1986, pp. 179-233 (on moodle)
To what extent did the massacres of the Jews in Ashkenaz in 1096 change anti-Judaism and the relationship between Jews and Christians?
Soloman bar Samson: The Crusaders in Mainz, May 27, 1096 at: www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1096jews-mainz.html
Robert Chazan, “Anti-Jewish violence of 1096 – Perpetrators and dynamics” in Anna Sapir Abulafia Religious Violence between Christians and Jews (Palgrave, 2002) (on moodle)
Daniel Lasker, “The Impact of the Crusades on the Jewish-Christian debate” Jewish History 13, 2 (1999) 23-26 (on moodle)
David Malkiel “Destruction or Conversion: Intention and Reaction, Crusaders and Jews in 1096,” Jewish History 15:257-280.
How should we account for the accusations of ritual murder, blood libel and host desecrations and their development throughout the history of antisemitism?
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Which of the three – ritual murder, blood libel and host desecration do you believe was most dangerous and why?
The Life and Passion of William of Norwich by Thomas Monmouth translated by Miri Rubin (Penguin Classics, 2014) Langmuir, Gavin, Toward a Definition of Antisemitism. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990) pp. 209-236 and 263-298 Joshua Trachtenberg, The Devil and the Jews (Philadelphia, 1983) pp.57-158.
Alan Dundes, “The Ritual Murder or Blood Libel Legend: A Study of Anti-Semitic Victimization through projective inversion,” Alan Dundes (ed.) The Blood Libel Legend: A Casebook in Antisemitic Folklore (Wisconsin, 1991).
Ronnie Po-chia Hsia Trent 1475, Stories of a Ritual Murder (New Haven, 1992) Get book from library.
Should Martin Luther be considered as anti-judaic or anti-semitic? Why? Martin Luther, selections from "On the Jews and Their Lies," at: http://www.humanitas-international.org/showcase/chronography/documents/luther-jews.htm Mark U. Edwards Jr. “Toward an understanding of Luther’s attacks on the Jews,” Philip F. Gallagher (ed.) Christian, Jews and Other Worlds (1988) pp. 1-19
Heiko Oberman, The Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Age of the Renaissance and Reformation (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984) pp.95-137
Robert Chazan, From Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism Ancient and Medieval Christian Constructions of Jewish History (Cambridge, 2016) 201-236.
Discuss the ideas and effects of Christian iconographic stereotypes?
Sara Lipton, Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography (Metropolitan Books, 2014)
Sara Lipton, Images of Intolerance: The Representation of Jews and Judaism in the Bible moralisée (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999) pp. 14-29.
Robert Bonfil, “The Devil and the Jews in the Christian consciousness of the Middle Ages,” in Shmuel Almog (ed.) Antisemitism through the Ages (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980) 91-98.
Do you believe that Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice was meant to be understood as an anti-Semitic play?
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer Anti-semitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present (New York, 2002) Chapter Four: Homo Judaicus Economicus – The Jew as Shylock, Parasite and Plutocrat
Catherine Cox “Neither gentile nor Jew; performative subjectivity in “The Merchant of Venice,” Exemplaria 12, 2 (2000) 359-383 (on moodle).
David Nirenberg, Anti-Judaism: A History of a Way of Thinking (Norton and Company, 2013 ), 269-299 (on moodle).
How did enlightenment and emancipation affect anti-Semitism?
The Jew in the Modern World, Dohm 28-36, Michaelis 42-44, French National Assembly, 114-8; Berr 118-21, Napolean, 123-26, Jewish Notables, 128-33 (on moodle). Jacob Katz, From Prejudice to Destruction. pp. 13-47; 119-38, 147-74 (on moodle) Arthur Hertzberg, The French Enlightenment and the Jews: The Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990)pp. 138-87, 248-267 (on moodle). Moshe Zimmerman, Wilhelm Marr: Patriarch of Antisemitism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986 (read whole book).
How did Nationalism change anti-Semitism?
The Jew in the Modern World, Voltaire 304-8. Dohm, Michaelis, Abbe Gregoire, Bauer, Marx from The Jew in the Modern World, pp. 27-34, 36-38, 262-68. Eisenmenger and Voltaire, in Levy, Antisemitism in the Modern World: An Anthology of Texts pp. 31-46. Jacob Katz, From Prejudice to Destruction. pp. 51-104, 175-220.
How different was anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe from that of the west?
Jew in the Modern World: Beilis Trial, 412-13 (on moodle).
Antisemitism in the Modern World 113-44 (on moodle).
Bernard Malamud The Fixer (New York, 1966)
Mendel Beilis Scapegoat on Trial: The Story of Mendel Beilis (New York, 1992)
Robert Wistrich Anti-semitism: The Longest Hatred (London, 1982) Chs 12-14 (on moodle)
Was the trial of Dreyfus an affair or a case? To what extent was it affected by anti-Semitism in France and changed it for the future?
Emile Zola, “J’accuse” in Paul Mendes-Flohr&JehudaReinharz, ed., The Jew in the Modern World (Oxford, 1995), pp. 351-355.
24 Days (French: 24 jours, la vérité sur l’affaire Ilan Halimi — lit. 24 Days: The True Story of the Ilan Halimi Affair), a French drama film directed by Alexandre Arcady (2014).
Secondary Literature: Bruno Chaouat, “Good News from France: “There is No New Antisemitism,” Alvin H. Rosenfeld,Deciphering the New Antisemitism (Indiana University Press, 2015) 179-206. Michel Wieviorka, The Lure of Anti-Semitism: Hatred of Jews in Present-Day France (Leiden: Brill, 2007).
Maud S. Mandel, Muslims and Jews in France: History of a Conflict (Princeton, 2014). Levy, Antisemitism in the Modern World: An Anthology of Texts pp. 104-12, 224-34 (on moodle). Jacob Katz, From Prejudice to Destruction. pp107-118, 292-300 (on moodle). Stephen Wilson, Ideology and Experience: Antisemitism in France at the Time of the Dreyfus Affair. Rutherford: NJ: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, 1982, pp, 655-93 (on moodle). Michael R. Marrus “Popular Anti-Semitism,” in Norman Kleeblatt (ed.) The Dreyfus Affair: Art, Truth, and Justice (Berkeley, 1987) 50-61 (on moodle). Pierre Birnbaum, The Anti-Semitic Moment: A Tour of France in 1898. Hill and Wang, 2003 (on moodle).
Nazism has often been described as an “redemptive antisemitism.” Do you agree with this term?
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“Hitler’s anti-Semitism was irrational.” Discuss
Jew in the Modern World Hitler, Nazi Laws, 636-39, 645-49 Levy, Antisemitism in the Modern World: An Anthology of Texts , pp. 97-103, Mein Kampf . The whole work is available to read on the internet at: http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/ Jacob Katz, From Prejudice to Destruction. pp245-291. Peter Hayes, Why? Explaining the Holocaust (W.W. Norton, 2017) Saul Friedlander, Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939 (Harper Collins, 2014) Jacob Katz, “Was the Holocaust Predictable?” Commentary 59 (May 1975), 41- 48
Was Hitler and the Nazis successful at making the Germans anti-Semitic? How did he achieve this?
Glenn Aylett, "Hitler’s Radio." Hitler’s Radio. Transdiffusion, 07 Jan. 2008. Web. 23 Nov, 2014 Adolf Hitler, "Chapter 6." Mein Kampf. München: Zentralverl. Der NSDAP Eher, 1927. Ian Kershaw, Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution. Jerusalem: International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, 2008. 130. Gerald Kerwin, Gerald. "Waiting for Retaliation – A Study in Nazi Propaganda Behavior and German Civilian Morale,” Journal of Contemporary History 16.3 (1981): 565-83. Karthik Narayanaswami. Analysis of Nazi Propaganda: A Behavioral Study. Harvard University (2011): 1-9 at https://blogs.harvard.edu/karthik/files/2011/04/HIST-1572-Analysis-of-Nazi-Propaganda-KNarayanaswami.pdf
Were the Nazis successful at creating anti-Semitism in the Cinema?
Watch both Jud Suss and The Eternal Jew..
Giesen, Rolf. Nazi Propaganda Films: A History and Filmography. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland &, 2003. Tegel, Susan. Nazis and the Cinema. London: Hambledon Continuum, 2007.
Discuss the effects and dangers of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion?
Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Trans. Victor Marsden. n.d. Web. 3 Jan. 2017. <https://archive.org/details/TheProtocolsOfTheLearnedEldersOfZion>. Norman Cohn, Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World-Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1981. Donskis, Leonidas. Forms of hatred: the troubled imagination in modern philosophy and literature. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003. Print.
Ford, Henry. The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem. 4 vols. York, SC: Liberty Bell Publications, 2004. Print.
Do you believe Henry Ford was genuinely anti-semitic?
Levy, Antisemitism in the Modern World: An Anthology of Texts , pp. 147-65 (on moodle) Neil Baldwin, Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate. New York: Public Affairs, 2001 Leonard Dinnerstein, “Antisemitism in Crisis Times in the United States : The 1920s and 1930s,” in Sander L. Gilman and Steven Katz, editors, Anti-Semitism In Times of Crisis . New York : New York University Press, 1991 (on moodle). Leo Ribuffo, "Henry Ford and the International Jew," American Jewish History 69 (1980): 437- 77 (on moodle).
Why should we define the increasing anti-Semitism in America?
Sources: Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer Antisemitic Myths: A Historical and Contemporary Anthology (Indiana, 2008) 272-282, 291-306. Film: Skokie 1981 Martin Durham, White Rage, (New York: Routledge, 2007) chapter on Race and Religion, pp. 66-82. JosefJoffe, Nations We Love to Hate : Israel, American and the New Antisemitism (Jerusalem: Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2005).
Sina Arnold, “From Occupation to Occupy: Antisemitism and the Contemporary Left in the United States,” Alvin H. Rosenfeld,Deciphering the New Antisemitism (Indiana University Press, 2015), 375-404.
Leonard Dinnerstein, Anti-Semitism in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 58-77, 128-49. Max Wallace, The American Axis,: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of the Third Reich. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003, pp. 37-70, 217-38.
Is anti-zionism the modern anti-semitism?
http://www.memri.org/antisemitism.html David Patterson, “Anti-zionistAnti-semitism,” Antisemitism and Its Metaphysical Origins, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 195-221. Bassam Tibi “From SayyidQutb to Hamas: The Middle East Conflict and the Islamization of Antisemitsm, in in Charles A. Small (ed.) Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity (Leiden: Brill, 2013) Vol. IV Islamism and the Arab World (Leiden; Brill, 2013) 21-46. Menahem Milson “Arab and Islamic Antisemitism,” in Charles A. Small (ed.) Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity (Leiden: Brill, 2013). Matti Bunzl, Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia : Hatreds Old and New in Europe (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2007). Jonathan Fighel “The Jihad Flotilla to Gaza: Provocative: Antisemitic and Not Humanitarian,” in Charles A. Small (ed.) Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity (Leiden: Brill, 2013). Bernard Lewis, Semites and Antisemites New York: W. W. Norton, 1986 pp. 11-24, 81-116, 164-191 (on moodle) Jonathan Frankel ‘"Ritual murder" in the modern era; the Damascus affair of 1840’ Jewish Social Studies 3,2 (1997) 1-16 1997 (on moodle)
Fischel, J. R. (2005). What’s New About the New Anti-Semitism? Virginia Quarterly Review, 81(3), 225. Gerstenfeld, M. (2007). Anti-Israelism and Anti-Semitism: Common Characteristics and Motifs. Jewish Political Studies Review, 83–108. Halpern, B. (1981). What Is Antisemitism? Modern Judaism, 1(3), 251–262. Klug, B. (2003). The collective Jew: Israel and the new antisemitism. Patterns of Prejudice, 37(2), 117–138.
What is Holocaust denial, how is it manifested and what are its dangers?
Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (reprint: London Penguin, 2016). David Patterson, Antisemitism and Its Metaphysical Origins, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) , 165-193. Raphael Cohen-Almagor, “Hate in the Classroom: Free Expression, Holocaust Denial, and Liberal Education,” American Journal of Education 114, no. 2 (2008): 215-241.
Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman, Denying History (Berkeley, 2000).
David Irving, Conference of Institute for Historical Review, 1999 PRINT.
"Liberty Lobby: Hate Central." ADL. ADL, n.d. Web. 26 May 2011.
"Institute for Historical Review Online." Institute for Historical Review. IHR, n.d. Web. 26 May 2011. <www.IHR.org>.
Smith, Bradley. "Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust ." Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust. CODH, n.d. Web. 26 May 2011. <www.CODH.com>.
"Holocaust Denial." Jewish Virtual Library. ADL, n.d. Web. 26 May 2011.
"Inconvenient History." Inconvenient History. History Behind Bars Press, n.d. Web. 26 May 2011. <http://www.inconvenienthistory.com/index.php>.
Irving, David. Hitler’sWar. Avon Books: 1990. Print.
Review the below anti-Semitic websites. How effective are they and how effective is the ADL as a counter-attack to these websites?
www.Jewwatch.com
Institute for Historical Review: Holocaust Denial http://www.ihr.org/index.html
http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
www.stormfront.org
Anti Defamation League fighting anti-semitism at www.adl.org
To what extent should the Catholic Church be blamed not only for anti-judaism but also for anti-semitism?
David Patterson, Antisemitism and Its Metaphysical Origins, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 55-79. John Pawlikowski and Jon Nilson,Restating the Catholic Church’s Relationship with the Jewish People: The Challenge of Super-sessionary Theology (Edwin Mellen, 2013)E-Book Mark Weitzman “Artisans… for Antichrist: Jews, Radical Catholic Traditionalists, and the Extreme Right,” in Charles A. Small (ed.) Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity (Leiden: Brill, 2013). David Kertzer, The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican’s Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism (New York, 2001).
John Cornwell, Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII (London, 2000).
1965 Nostra Aetatefrom Vatican II to be read on the internet at http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html
1998 document “We Remember: A Reflection on the Holocaust.” http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/documents/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_16031998_shoah_en.html
David Biale, Blood and Belief: The Circulation of a Symbol between Jews and Christians, 162-206.
How should we define the anti-Semitism that has appeared on American University campuses?
Gary A. Tobin. Aryeh Kaufmann Weinberg, Jenner Ferer, The Uncivil University: Intolerance on College Campuses (Lexington, 2009)
Jim Nelson Black, Free Fall of the American University: How our Colleges are corrupting the minds and morals of the Next Generation (Thomas Nelson, 2012)
www.adl.org/anti-semitism/…/c/campus-anti-semitic-incidents-2015.htm
https://www.brandeis.edu/cmjs/noteworthy/antisemitism.html
http://www.wiesenthal.com/atf/cf/%7B54d385e6-f1b9-4e9f-8e94-890c3e6dd277%7D/ANTI-SEMITISM_ON_CAMPUS-A_CLEAR_AND_PRESENT_DANGER-6-12-2015.PDF
How should the self hating Jew be explained?
Alperin, Richard M. "Jewish Self-Hatred: The Internalization of Prejudice." Clinical Social Work Journal 44.3 (2016): 221-30. 9 Mar. 2016. Web. 8 Jan. 2017. Baron, Lawrence. "Theodor Lessing: Between Jewish Self-Hatred and Zionism." Leo Baeck Institute Year Book (n.d.): 323-40. Oxford University Press. Web. 8 Jan. 2017. Bean, Henry. "Introduction." The Believer: Confronting Jewish Self-Hatred. 1st ed. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2000. 1-24. Print. Berger, Joseph. "Bernie Sanders Is Jewish, but He Doesn’t Like to Talk About It." The New York Times. The New York Times Company, 24 Feb. 2016. Web. 8 Jan. 2017. Dunham, Lena. "Dog or Jewish Boyfriend? A Quiz." The New Yorker. Condé Nast, 30 Mar. 2015. Web. 8 Jan. 2017. Finlay, W. M. L. "Pathologizing dissent: Identity politics, Zionism and the ‘self-hating Jew’" The British Journal of Social Psychology 44 (2005): 201-22. The British Psychological Society, June 2005. Web. 8 Jan. 2017. Gilman, Sander L. "Jewish Self-Hatred." The Believer: Confronting Jewish Self-Hatred. 1st ed. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2000. 219-38. Print. Gilman, Sander L. "The Believer." The Believer: Confronting Jewish Self-Hatred. 1st ed. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2000. 238-42. Print. Mamet, David. The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred, and the Jews. 1st ed. New York: Schocken , 2006. Print. Reitter, Paul. "Interwar Expressionism, Zionist Self-Help Writing, and the Other History of ‘Jewish Self-Hatred’" Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 55 (2010): 175-92. Oxford University Press, 2010. Web. 8 Jan. 2017. Reitter, Paul. "Zionism and the Rhetoric of Jewish Self-Hatred." The Germanic Review (2008): 343-63. Web. 8 Jan. 2017.
Are Boycott divestment sanctions anti-semitic or anti-zionistic or both?
Barghouti, Omar.BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights. Chicago, IL: Haymarket, 2011. Print.
"Introducing the BDS Movement."BDSmovementnet.N.p.,n.d. Web. 29 Dec. 2015.<http://bdsmovement.net/bdsintro>.
Joffe, Alexander."SPME BDS Monitor: Boycott Israel Movement on the March Across College Campuses."Algemeinercom RSS.N.p., 2 Dec. 2015. Web. 29 Dec. 2015.<http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/12/02/spme-bds-monitor-boycott-israel-movement-on-the-march-across-college-campuses/#>.
Lim,Audrea.The Case for Sanctions against Israel. London: Verso, 2012. Print.
"Palestinian BDS National Committee."BDSmovementnet.N.p.,n.d. Web. 29 Dec. 2015.<http://bdsmovement.net/bnc>.
"Profile: Students for Justice in Palestine."Proceedings of the Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society 13/14 (1990): n.pag.ADL. Web. 29 Dec. 2015.<http://www.adl.org/assets/pdf/israel-international/sjp-2015-backgrounder.pdf>.
S. M."Are Calls to Boycott Israel Antisemitic?"The Economist.N.p., 12 May 2015. Web. 29 Dec. 2015.<http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2015/05/campus-politics>.
"Timeline."BDSmovementnet.N.p.,n.d. Web. 29 Dec. 2015.<http://bdsmovement.net/timeline>.
"What Is Anti-Semitism?"ADL.N.p.,n.d. Web. 29 Dec. 2015.<http://archive.adl.org/hate-patrol/antisemitism.html#.VoFEGtainFI>.
Younis,Rami."Interview: The Man behind the BDS Movement."+972 Magazine Interview.N.p., 14 June 2015. Web. 29 Dec. 2015.<http://972mag.com/interview-the-man-behind-the-bds-movement/107771/>.
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