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Antisemitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present 2002nd Edition

by F. Schweitzer (Author), M. Perry (Author)
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In this provocative book, Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer analyze the lies, misperceptions, and myths about Jews and Judaism that anti-semites have propagated throughout the centuries. Beginning with antiquity, and continuing into the present day, the authors explore the irrational fabrications that have led to numerous acts of violence and hatred against Jews. The book examines ancient and medieval myths central to the history of anti-semitism: Jews as 'Christ-killers', instruments of Satan, and ritual murderers of Christian children. It also explores the scapegoating of Jews in the modern world as conspirators bent on world domination; extortionists who manufactured the Holocaust as a hoax designed to gain reparation payments from Germany; and the leaders of the slave trade that put Africa in chains. No other book has focused its attention exclusively on a thematic discussion of historic and contemporary anti-semitic myths, covering such an expansive scope of time, and allowing for such a painstaking level of exemplification. Anti-semitism is an essential book that will serve as a corrective to bigotry, stereotype, and historical distortion.
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    0312165617
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    978-0312165611
  3. Edition
    2002nd
  4. Publisher
    Palgrave Macmillan
  5. Publication date
    May 29, 2003
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
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  8. Print length
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Perry (Baruch Coll., CUNY) and Schweitzer (Manhattan Coll.) navigate the history of anti-Semitism with a firm hand, utilizing the latest scholarship and confronting controversial issues without fear. Although the book provides a number of linkages between the Holocaust and earlier anti-Semitic beliefs, the primary purpose is to analyze the origins of anti-Semitic myths and their later manifestations. While the authors assert that these beliefs created the fertile ground for mass murder, they do not claim that it inevitably led to genocide. In addition to detailing anti-Semitic beliefs and the consequent victimization of Jews, the authors provide a primer on how to counter such beliefs using historical facts and methodology. Of particular use for students are the chapters on Holocaust denial, anti-Semitism in the Muslim world, and the writings and speeches of the Nation of Islam, which provide important context for understanding how old myths are continually reinvented for the modern world. Recommended for all libraries.
Frederic Krome, Jacob Rader Marcus Ctr. of the American Jewish Archives
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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'The authors write cleanly, and their prose is highly readable. They have brought to their task valuable classroom experience over many decades. For such reasons, and because the book presents a succinct, easily understood overview, it will appeal to many readers.' - Ethnic and Racial Studies

'Solidly researches and lucidly written [this] book makes for compelling, if painful, reading.' - Los Angeles Times

'[A] tour de force [that] follows upon the late Edward H. Flannery's groundbreaking classic, The Anguish of the Jews.' - Journal of Ecumenical Studies

'Commendably, the authors, using reader-friendly language composed in captivating imagery, bring home the point that realization of anti-semitism and its vision of apocalypse is ever present and therefore necessitates constant vigil. A wonderful read on a poignant topic. Highly recommended.' - Zev Garber, author of Shoah

'Perry and Schweitzer navigate the history of anti-semitism with a firm hand, utilizing the latest scholarship and confronting controversial issues without fear.' - Library Journal

'A richly textured, thorough, well-written and indispensable addition to the literature, one that anyone interested in the topic and related racist phenomena should not miss.' - John Weiss, author of Ideology of Death: Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany

'...this is a decent and sober beginning to this regrettable history ofhate...Recommended.' - S.D. Benin, Choice

'...an invaluable guide through the torturous maze of myth and lies propagated by antisemites throughout the ages.' - Anna Dogole, The Jewish Eye

'...deserves a place on your bookshelf...' - Gerard Meister, Pencil Stubs Online (www.pencilstubs.com)

'...a remarkably timely and useful account of the history of antisemitism...In spite of the thousands of books...on anti-semitism, it is often difficult to find a book suitable for students that describes lucidly and competently anti-semitic delusions and myths as both a logical absurdity and also a force that has shaped much of the history of the last two thousand years. This book qualifies in these respects unlike any book I have ever seen. I am confident that others will find it similarly useful.' - Derek H. Davis, Journal of Church and State

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Palgrave Macmillan; 2002nd edition (May 29, 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 319 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0312165617
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0312165611
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.35 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1 x 9.75 inches
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  • Henry Oliner
    5.0 out of 5 stars Countering a Mythology of Hate
    Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2006
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    There are so many books attempting to understand a hatred that has morphed like an indestructable virus from the religious hatred inspired by the gospels, to the social hatred that survived the reformation, to the racial and political hatred that brought us the holocaust, that one questions the need for yet another. This volume is a worthy addition.

    The authors counters the Christian anti semitism with a critcal assessment of the gospels. They counter the absurd tales of blood libel with factual counter evidence. They counter the ridiculuous economic conspiracies with a bright illumination on the modern devlopments of capitalism, communism and democracy. Yet they readily acknowledged that the myths have such a strong hold on the ignorant and the hateful that it is often impervious to logic and evidence.

    Their best addition to the liturgy is the chapter on holocaust deniers; the reader will become well equipped to defray these thinly disguised anti semitic frauds. They also devote a chapter (there are only 6) on the Nation of Islam (not to be confused with traditional Islam) as led by Farrakhan and the anti semitism they have established in the black community.

    He soundly trounces the publishing of the "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews," a "protocol' like document that aims to stir black anti-semitism by blaming the Jews for the centuries of black degradation of the slave trade. While filled with very official looking footnotes and facts that may dupe the ignorant it is another ridiculous anti semtic fraud that the authors clearly place in the same trash heap as the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and the Holocaust deniers.

    The book spends less time analyzing anti-semitism in the Arab world, but that alone could consume volumes; (Read The Return of Anti-Semitsm by Gabriel Schoenfeld) and they do not devote much attention to anti semitism of the modern political Left. For that see The New Anti Semitsm by Phyllis Chesler or The Changing Face of Anti Semitsm by Walter Lacqueur.

    In spite of those noted shortcomings it is well written, offers detailed response to specific antisemtic charges and adds more information about the deniers and the Nation of Islam followers. For those who want to learn how to respond to modern anti-semtic charges this may be the best single book of a very distinguished group of new writing on the longest hatred.
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  • Herman Rosen HERMAN ROSEN
    4.0 out of 5 stars A FINE FACTUAL STUDY
    Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2014
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    A BOOK EVERY JEW AND NON JEW SHOULD READ...THE ACCUSATIONS AGAINST THE JEWS THROUH THE AGES AND
    EVEN TODAY ARE IN THE REALM OF GROSS FANTASY...JEWS WERE ACCUSED OF THE PLAGUE ...THE KILLING OF
    CHRIST..THE MURDER OF CHILDREN FOR THEIR BLOOD AND BODY PARTS...OF BEING SPAWNS OF THE DEVIL..
    AND SO ON AND SO ON. TODAY IN THE MUSLIM WORLD THESE CHARGES ARE EVERY DAY OCCURENCES'
    THE PRESIDENT OF TURKEY ..ERDOGAN.. RECENTLY SHOUTED TO SOMEONE PROTESTING THE TURKISH GOVERNMENTS MISERABLE RUNNING OF THE TRAGIC MINE RESCUE OPERATION ,,,,OVER 300 DEAD..ACCUSING THE
    PROTESTER OF BEING A SPAWN OF THE JEWS.
    THE BOOK ITSELF IS WELL WRITTEN AND WELL DETAILED AND IT DID NOT SURPRISE ME THAT WITH JEW HATRED
    OVER THE AGES THAT THE RESULT WAS THE HOLOCAUST...WITH A MAJOR INPUT FROM THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
    AND IT IS NOW IN IRAN WHERE THE HOLOCAUST IS ON THE POINT OF BEING A JEWISH PLOT TO EXTRACT MONEY.
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  • Edward M. Janes
    5.0 out of 5 stars The role of mythology in developing dangerous hateful Jew hatred
    Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2022
    “Antisemitism—Myth and Hate from Antiquity to The Present” (309 pages; 2002) by Marvin Perry and Frederick Schweitzer; six chapters including, 1) The Trial and Death of Jesus, 2) Ritual Murderers, 3) The Diabolization of the Jews, 4) Homo Judaicius Economicus, 5) Denying the Holocaust, 6) Antisemitic Myths Blackwashed.

    This powerful work was initially of interest to me for the first three chapters and while reading I diverted to a side study on the “deicide” charge (“Philo’s Flaccus” by P. van der Horst, “Who Killed Jesus? Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus” by J.D. Crosson, and separately several papers on Nostra Aetate). Chapter 4, focusing on the “Shylock” or “Parasite” slur, also brought to this reader much new material and insight helping explain the jealousy / envy of local populations that fed Jew hatred. Chapter 5, on Holocaust denial, examines another stage of antisemitic mythmaking; the authors point out among other things, “… A nationalist Ukrainian newspaper argued that concentration camps were really intended to save Jewish lives—an expression of Nazi humanitarianism….” (page 178); that David Irving (who lost a prominent legal battle to Deborah Lipstadt), “In 1990 … told an audience at Latvian Hall, Toronto, that Jews even had themselves tattooed with numbers to bolster their claims that they were survivors and therefore entitled to compensation” (page 186); and that, of course, “The Diary of Anne Frank” was a fake (page 209). Chapter 6, “Blackwashed”, explores in painful detail how the Nation of Islam (Louis Farrakhan, Muhammad Khallid, et al) and others in the African American community engaged in AS mythmaking and destructive rhetoric. Below are passages that caught this readers attention as particularly noteworthy.

    From Chapter 1:
    “It is not just a matter of deportation. You will not die there of hunger and disease. They will slaughter all of you there, old and young alike, women and children, at once—it is the punishment that you deserve for the death of our Lord and Redeemer, Jesus Christ,--you have one solution. Come over to our Catholic religion, and I will work to annul the decree.” Bishop Kmetko’s reply to Rabbi Ungar, who asked him to intervene … to prevent the deportation of Jews from Slovakia in 1943 (Page 17).

    From Chapter 2:
    “In 1955 Anglican authorities had dismantled the shrine of Lincoln Cathedral of ‘Little St. Hugh’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Saint_Hugh_of_Lincoln) and declared that the fiction of ritual murder had cost the lives of many Jews. But as recently [1990] … local clergy in the cathedral were reported to have retold the myth to tourists. Newsweek magazine reported on one church in Poland: The Holy Mary basilica of Sandomierz, Poland, built in the 17th century. Within the church there is a large painting entitled ‘Infanticida.’ It depicts a band of caricatured Jews kidnapping, stabbing and dismembering Christian babies as part of a religious ritual. A plaque claims the Faithless members of the Jewish community killed two Sandomierz babies in 1698 and 1710. A nun walks by. Did Jews really do these things? ‘Certainly’, she says, ‘They once did, but no longer—there are no Jews left in Poland.’” (Page 72).

    From Chapter 3:
    “In the Middle Ages, Jews had been persecuted and humiliated primarily for religious reasons. In the nineteen century, national-racial considerations supplemented the traditional biased Christian perception of Jews and Judaism. However, whereas Christian antisemites believed that through conversion Jews could escape the curse of their religion, racial antisemites said that Jews were indelibly stained and eternally condemned by their genes. Their evil and worthlessness derived from inherited racial characteristics, which could not be altered by conversion.” (Page 96).

    “In 1933 … Felix Goldmann, a German Jewish writer, commented astutely on the irrational quality of racial antisemitism: ‘The present-day politicized racial antisemitism is the embodiment of myth, … nothing is discussed … only felt, … nothing is pondered critically or reasonably, … only inwardly perceived, surmised…. We are apparently the last … of the age of the Enlightenment.’ That many people, including intellectuals and members of the elites, believed these racial theories—indeed, for some it was a passion, was an ominous sign for Western civilization. It showed how tenuous the rational tradition of the Enlightenment is, how receptive the mind is to dangerous myths, and how speedily human behavior can degenerate into inhumanity.” (Page 112).

    From Chapter 4: “Over the centuries, since the earliest Christian commentators, the image of Jesus’ ‘cleansing of the Temple’ and the expulsion of the money changers (Mark 11:15-19) have been used to condemn Jewish business activity, contrasting the crass materialist mentality of Judaism to the spirituality of Jesus and Christianity.”

    From Chapter 6: “In a speech at Kean College in New Jersey on 11/29/1993 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7MVbwVwrmI), Muhammad Khallid, then a national spokesman for Nation of Islam, launched a vicious attack against Jews that was reminiscent of Nazi propagandists. Jews, he said, controlled the White House, and the Federal Reserve System, Hollywood and the media. Their behavior in Germany forced Hitler to act the way he did. Jews, he continued, used the civil rights movement to exploit blacks…. To the familiar accusations of parasites and exploiters that antisemites have traditionally hurled at Jews, Khallid added a rarely used one—cannibals: ‘You are a European … people who crawled around on all fours …, eatin’ juniper roots and eatin’ each other.’” (Page 213).

    As stated at the outset I started reading this book for the first three chapters but as useful as those were in helping understand that material, I thought I took away a lot more new learning from Chapters 4, 5 & 6. Over the many years the one thing that has been true about antisemitism is that is has always been changing. Perry and Schweitzer show how mythmaking has remained a constant element in the development of this dangerous and hateful material. Highly recommended read.
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