A Concise History of American Antisemitism

Robert Michael (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2005
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-7425-4312-6 (ISBN)

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A Concise History of American Antisemitism shows how Christianity's negative views of Jews pervaded American history from colonial times to the present. The book describes the European background to American anti-Semitism, then divides American history into time periods, and examines the anti-Semitic ideas, personalities, and literature in each period. It also demonstrates that anti-Semitism led to certain behaviors in some United States officials that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. Clear and forceful, A Concise History of American Antisemitism is an important work for undergraduate course use and for the general public interested in the roots of the current rash of anti-Semitism.

Robert Michael is professor emeritus of history at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth and Visiting Professor at Ringling School of Art and Design and Florida Gulf Coast University. His other books include: Dictionary of Anti-Semitism, An English Lexicon of the Language of the Third Reich, and The Holocaust: A Chronology and Documentary. He is working on a poetry collection and a novel.

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Introduction: "The United States Is Above All Things a Christian Nation"
Chapter 4 "We Never Do Evil So Completely and Cheerfully as When We Do It Out of Religious Conviction:" European Antisemitism before the Founding of America
Chapter 5 "The Preservation of Christianity Is One of the Great and Leading Ends of Government:" The Jews in the American Colonies and Early State History
Chapter 6 "Chock Full of Lies, Wickedness, and Blasphemy:" American Attitudes toward Jews before the Civil War
Chapter 7 "A People Whose Feet Run to Evil:" American Antisemitism from the Civil War to the Turn of the Century
Chapter 8 "The Jews Reap More and More Dislike as They Better Themselves:" American Responses to Jews from World War One to the Start of World War Two
Chapter 9 "The Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews:" America, the Jews, and the Holocaust from 1938 to 1945
Chapter 10 "Dangerous People:" A New Beginning? America and the Jews since 1945
Chapter 11 Appendix: Postwar Film

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.7.2005
Sprache	englisch
Maße	167 x 228 mm
Gewicht	449 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	0-7425-4312-9 / 0742543129
ISBN-13	978-0-7425-4312-6 / 9780742543126
Zustand	Neuware