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Antisemitism: Here and Now (udgave 2019)

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"The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the political right and left, and on what can be done about it. When newsreels depicting the depredations of the Holocaust were shown in movie theaters to a horrified American public immediately after World War II, it was believed that the antisemitism that was part of the fabric of American culture in the 1920s and 1930s was finally going to be laid to rest. In the ensuing decades, Gregory Peck received an Academy Award for playing a journalist who passed as a Jew to blow the lid off genteel Jew hatred, clauses restricting where Jews could live were declared illegal, the KKK was pretty much litigated out of existence, and Joe Lieberman came within five electoral votes of becoming America's first Jewish vice president. And then the unthinkable began to happen. Over the last decade, there has been a noticeable uptick in antisemitic rhetoric and incidents by left-wing groups targeting Jewish students and Jewish organizations on American college campuses. Jews in countries throughout Europe have been attacked by terrorists. And the re-emergence of the white nationalist movement in America, complete with Nazi slogans and imagery, has brought to mind the fascist displays of the 1930s. Where is all this hatred coming from? Is there any significant difference between left-wing and right-wing antisemitism? What role has the anti-Zionist movement played? And what can be done to combat this latest manifestation of an ancient hatred? In a series of letters to an imagined college student and imagined colleague, both of whom are perplexed by this resurgence, Deborah Lipstadt gives us her own superbly reasoned, brilliantly argued, and sure-to-be-controversial responses to these troubling questions"--… (mere)
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Titel:Antisemitism: Here and Now
Forfattere:Deborah E. Lipstadt (Forfatter)
Info:Schocken (2019), 304 pages
Samlinger:Non-Fiction
Vurdering:*****
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The is little doubt that anti-semitism is on the rise, fueled by the explosion of social media and the rising tide of hatred in the U.S. and overseas. This book dives into current examples of anti-semitism and white nationalist violent demonstrations happening in the U.S. and in Europe today as well as in the past, including a long look at Holocaust deniers. I did not care for the book's format, where Lipstadt uses a series of letters to guide her wide-ranging but seemingly unfocused discussion. Anger against Israel's treatment of Palestinians, unjustified fears of Jewish control of governments and the media, even stereotypes or arguments that Jews are better off than other minorities, indifference to aggression against by political leaders like President Trump, the Labour Party in the U.K. and in France, and the failure of Warsaw bloc to acknowledge their complicity in the deportation of Jews are some of the many reasons for this deplorable situation. ( )
  skipstern | Jul 11, 2021 |
Deborah Lipstadt's book "Antisemitism: Here and Now" is an informative look at antisemitism within the past decade. The book is written as a series of personal letters between Lipstadt, a fictional college student, and a fictional university colleague. This format makes the very approachable.

A few historical details are discussed briefly, but for the most part, Lipstadt sticks to recent iterations of antisemitism. Specifically, she concentrates on far right politics in the US and Europe, left wing politics in Great Britain, how it appears on the internet, and how it manifests as violence. She identifies different types of antisemitism and how subtle prejudices metastasize.

Lipstadt frequently goes into long lists of recent antisemitic events in order to make a point. I had forgotten about many of the events until I read this book. That illustrates just how pervasive antisemitism can be.

Some topics in the book, such as the uneasy alliance between right wing Holocaust deniers in Eastern Europe and the right wing in Israel, are new to me. Other topics are familiar, such as the debate about free speech on college campuses, but are given good elucidation by Lipstadt.

At times the book feels like it's written for college students. Perhaps that's because the three people involved in the fictional correspondence all live in academia. Topics such as campus free-speech and the role of debate on campus receive quite a lot of ink but certainly fit in the overall narrative of the letters.

I would like to read more from Lipstadt about legitimate criticism of the government of Israel, anti-Zionism, and antisemitism. Lipstadt brings up these topics several times - she clearly says there is room for criticism of the government - but I would have liked to have this further spelled out. I imagine the author has written about this in other works.

Despite the heavy nature of the book, "Antisemimtism: Here and Now" is easy to read. The writing is logical, connected, and smooth, and Lipstadt's points come through clearly and effectively. ( )
  mvblair | Apr 3, 2021 |
“Lipstadt aims not to break new scholarly ground but to awaken her audience to the nature, persistence and scale of the threat, along with the insidious ways in which it seeks to disguise itself. She succeeds . . . She has written a book that combines erudition, clarity, accessibility and passion at a moment when they could not be needed more.” —Bret Stephens, The New York Times Book Review
  HandelmanLibraryTINR | Feb 9, 2019 |
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"The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the political right and left, and on what can be done about it. When newsreels depicting the depredations of the Holocaust were shown in movie theaters to a horrified American public immediately after World War II, it was believed that the antisemitism that was part of the fabric of American culture in the 1920s and 1930s was finally going to be laid to rest. In the ensuing decades, Gregory Peck received an Academy Award for playing a journalist who passed as a Jew to blow the lid off genteel Jew hatred, clauses restricting where Jews could live were declared illegal, the KKK was pretty much litigated out of existence, and Joe Lieberman came within five electoral votes of becoming America's first Jewish vice president. And then the unthinkable began to happen. Over the last decade, there has been a noticeable uptick in antisemitic rhetoric and incidents by left-wing groups targeting Jewish students and Jewish organizations on American college campuses. Jews in countries throughout Europe have been attacked by terrorists. And the re-emergence of the white nationalist movement in America, complete with Nazi slogans and imagery, has brought to mind the fascist displays of the 1930s. Where is all this hatred coming from? Is there any significant difference between left-wing and right-wing antisemitism? What role has the anti-Zionist movement played? And what can be done to combat this latest manifestation of an ancient hatred? In a series of letters to an imagined college student and imagined colleague, both of whom are perplexed by this resurgence, Deborah Lipstadt gives us her own superbly reasoned, brilliantly argued, and sure-to-be-controversial responses to these troubling questions"--

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