Demonizing the other : antisemitism, racism & xenophobia /

At the close of the twentieth century the stereotyping and demonization of 'others', whether on religious, nationalist, racist, or political grounds, has become a burning issue. Yet comparatively little attention has been paid to how and why we fabricate images of the 'other' as...

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Corporate Author: Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim)
Other Authors: Wistrich, Robert S., 1945-2015
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Abingdon : Harwood Academic ; Marston, 1999
Series:Studies in antisemitism (Unnumbered) ; v. 4.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Demonizing the Other: Antisemitism, Racism, and Xenophobia; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Introduction: The Devil, The Jews, and Hatred of the Other Roberts. Wistrich; Part I; 1. Demonizing the Other
  • 2. Why Do Stereotypes Stick?; 3. The Demonization of the Other in the Visual Arts; 4. Antisemitism and Other -isms in the Greco-Roman World; 5. Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages: Shared Myths, Common Language; 6. Jews and Christians in Medieval Muslim Thought; 7. The Transformation of Hatred: Antisemitism as a Struggle for Group Identity.
  • 8. The Borrowed Identity: Neo-Pagan Reactions to the Jewish Roots of Christianity9. Exploring the Other: The Enlightenment's Search for the Boundaries of Humanity; 10. Otherness and Difference: The Perspective of Gender Theory; 11. Recurrent Images in French Antisemitism in the Third Republic; 12. The Critique of Judaism in Modern European Thought: Genuine Factors and Demonic Perceptions; Part II; 13. ""Europe's Inner Demons"": The ""Other"" as Threat in Early Twentieth-Century European Culture; 14. Nazi Antisemitism: Animalization and Demonization.
  • 15. When the Demon Itself Complains of Being Demonized16. All Poets are Yids: The Voice of the Other in Paul Celan; 17. The Popular Image of the Jew in Modern Poland; 18. Mass Death under Communist Rule and the Limits of Otherness
  • 19. The Flourishing Demon: Japan in the Role of the Jews?; 20. Anti-Jewish Imagery in the Contemporary Arab-Muslim World; 21. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: New Uses of an Old Myth; 22. The Motivations and Impact of Contemporary Holocaust Denial in Germany; 23. Xenophobia and Antisemitism in the New Europe: The Case of Germany; Index.