Jews Against Themselves

Edward Alexander (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

178 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
9781412856034 (ISBN)

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This volume features powerful essays by Edward Alexander on the phenomenon of anti-Zionism on the part of the Jewish intelligentsia. It also analyses the explosive growth of traditional anti-Semitism, especially in Europe, among intellectuals and Muslims. Alexander notes that anti-Zionism has established a presence even in Israel, where it frequently takes the form of intellectuals sympathizing with their country's enemies and perversely apologizing for their own existence.

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 Times or The New York Times by the standards of Judaism.

Edward Alexander is professor emeritus of English at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He is the author of The Jewish Idea and Its Enemies, The Holocaust and the War of Ideas, Irving Howe: Socialist, Critic, Jew, and Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Jewish Self-Hatred

2. Disraeli and Marx: Stammgenosse?

3. Liberalism and Zionism

4. What the Holocaust Does Not Teach

5. Why Jews Must Behave Better than Everybody Else: The Theory and Practice of the Double Standard 31

6. The Moral Failure of American Jewish Intellectuals: Past and Present

7. The Holocaust . . . and Me

8. Noam Chomsky and Holocaust Denial

9. Antisemitism Denial: The Berkeley School

10. Michael Lerner: Hillary Clinton's Jewish Rasputin

11. Ashamed Jews: The Finkler Question

12. Israelis against Themselves: The Intellectual Origins of Oslo and Intifada II

13. Jewish Israel-Haters Convert Their Dead Grandmothers: A New Mormonism?

14. Jewish Boycotters of Israel: How the Academic Boycott Began

15. America's Academic Boycotters: The Enemies of Israel Neither Slumber nor Sleep

16. Jews against Themselves: The BDS Movement and Modern Apostasy

17. Jewish Survivors and Their Progeny against Israel

18. Choose Your Side: The New York Times or Judaism

Selected Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.8.2015
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	388 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9781412856034 / 9781412856034
Zustand	Neuware