{"title":"The Rise and Fall of Adrien Arcand: Antisemitism in 20th Century Quebec","authors":"Hugues Théorêt","doi":"10.2979/antistud.3.2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/antistud.3.2.03","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Leader of the National Social Christian Party from 1934 to 1938, and of the National Unity Party of Canada from 1938 to 1967, Adrien Arcand is reputed to be the most virulent antisemitic propagandist in Canadian history. In publications he disseminated between 1929 and 1939 (Le Goglu, Le Miroir, Le Chameau, Le Patriote, Le Fasciste canadien, and Le Combat national), Arcand drew on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion for his vilification of the Jewish people. Arrested in 1940 and imprisoned for the duration of the Second World War, he regained his freedom in 1945 and was able to resume his campaign of hateful propaganda against Jews with the full knowledge of the Canadian authorities. From which sources did Arcand draw his antisemitism, and how did he become the champion of antisemitism in Canada? This article attempts to explain this dark and enigmatic character.","PeriodicalId":148002,"journal":{"name":"Antisemitism Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126911262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Peculiar Appeal of the \"Jewish Question\": The Case of Left Antisemitism","authors":"L. Rensmann","doi":"10.2979/antistud.3.2.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/antistud.3.2.07","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Antisemitism on the Left remains a controversial subject of scholarly research. Analyzing the recent studies by David Hirsh and by Robert Fine and Philip Spencer, this article examines their contribution to a critical understanding of the debates surrounding Left antisemitism, past and present, as well as their origins and historical and ideational trajectories. The two studies illuminate the specific patterns of justification, rationalization, and distorted universalism by which anti-Jewish hostility emerged and developed in left-wing contexts, shedding light on the particular ways the \"Jewish Question\" has been posed recurringly on the Left. Moreover, this research shows how leftist antisemitism and antisemitism denial, cloaked in discourses of progressivism, have helped facilitate what Hirsh calls \"the mainstreaming of antisemitism\" today.","PeriodicalId":148002,"journal":{"name":"Antisemitism Studies","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130280238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legacy of An Impassioned Plea: Franklin H. Littell’s The Crucifixion of the Jews by David Patterson and Marcia Sachs Littell","authors":"James R Carroll","doi":"10.2979/antistud.3.2.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/antistud.3.2.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":148002,"journal":{"name":"Antisemitism Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132837877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a Nazi by Johann Chapoutot (review)","authors":"B. Hart","doi":"10.2979/antistud.3.2.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/antistud.3.2.09","url":null,"abstract":"377 It is true that we dare not ignore the prevalence of anti-Jewish prejudice. In crisis situations, the mindlessly prejudiced as well as the fanatical haters can provide the shock troops of highly dangerous mass movements. But it is those movements and their organizers that should be our focus. Prejudice is dangerous only when it is organized to some purposeful end. A narrower definition of antisemitism would be of more practical use in the fight against organizers. Antisemitism is not first and foremost a way of thinking about Jews. From its inception as a politically organized movement in the 1880s, it has been a coherent ideology aimed at disempowering Jews, threatening their rights and, ultimately, their lives. It has always represented a much greater, more direct peril to their existence than the harboring of vile thoughts about them. Habits of mind are hard to change, as Lipstadt well knows. By contrast, the individuals and groups that seek to mobilize hatred against Jews can be fought effectively—in courts of law, through surveillance, and by public confrontation. The struggle against them must be unceasing, as this book amply shows.","PeriodicalId":148002,"journal":{"name":"Antisemitism Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132348955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Primed for Violence: Murder, Antisemitism, and Democratic Politics in Interwar Poland by Paul Brykczynski (review)","authors":"D. Heller","doi":"10.2979/antistud.3.2.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/antistud.3.2.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":148002,"journal":{"name":"Antisemitism Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122822387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can Antisemitism Have a Sacral Quality? Reflections on Wistrich and Others","authors":"J. Cahan","doi":"10.2979/antistud.3.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/antistud.3.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:There is an emerging discussion of whether or not antisemitism, especially its Nazi form, can be said to be metaphysical in nature. The supposed metaphysical quality is intended to explain the peculiar intensity of Jew hatred. Robert Wistrich, David Patterson, and others have held that antisemitism is metaphysical; I say that it is not. Instead, I argue that the intensity of Nazi antisemitism arose from its role in Nazism as a political religion and revolutionary movement. The concept of sacrifice is also examined. I conclude that to explain the magnitude and cruelty of the Holocaust, or catastrophes that may be in some respects comparable, it is not helpful to invoke metaphysics—the rise of modern political religions and the individual sociopathy of many of their leaders are more appropriate determining factors.","PeriodicalId":148002,"journal":{"name":"Antisemitism Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131084795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Luther and the Jews","authors":"T. Kaufmann","doi":"10.2979/ANTISTUD.3.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/ANTISTUD.3.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Martin Luther's relationship to the Jewish people was primarily theological and underwent dramatic changes throughout his lifetime. In the early 1520s, he emphasized the responsibility of the Papal Church for the failure to convert the Jews to Christianity. In the 1540s, he fought for the subjugation of Jewish people and their expulsion from Protestant territories. This article reconstructs the reception of Luther's anti-Jewish writings in late 19th and early 20th century Germany. Even before the rise of National Socialism, racist antisemites made use of Luther's repressive ideas, culminating in the burning of synagogues.","PeriodicalId":148002,"journal":{"name":"Antisemitism Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133908994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cruentation, Medieval Anti-Jewish Polemic, and Ritual Murder","authors":"I. Resnick","doi":"10.2979/ANTISTUD.3.1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/ANTISTUD.3.1.05","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In his Bonum universale de apibus (On Bees), the Dominican Thomas of Cantimpré recorded several instances in which the corpse of a murder victim spontaneously effused blood in the presence of the murderer. In one of these stories, Thomas provided an account of a ritual murder (ca. 1260). In this article, I examine the relationship between this phenomenon of \"cruentation\" and the anti-Jewish exemplum. I also identify some of the distinctive features of the tale, including the claim that the Jews typically harvest the blood of their Christian victims in order to address certain defects in their own nature. Finally, I examine the unusual identification of the Christian victim as female in relation to another ritual murder account at Valreás in 1247.","PeriodicalId":148002,"journal":{"name":"Antisemitism Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122113404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"One Million Antisemites?\" Attitudes toward Jews, the Holocaust, and Israel: An Anthropological Study of Refugees in Contemporary Germany","authors":"S. Arnold, Jana König","doi":"10.2979/antistud.3.1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/antistud.3.1.02","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article analyzes the attitudes of 25 refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq, now living in Germany, toward Jews, the Holocaust, Israel, and the Middle East conflict. It reveals both anti-Jewish and anti-Israel sentiments among many of the respondents, as well as a lack of knowledge about the Holocaust, and a wide range of attitudes between individual participants. Some of the factors influencing attitudes include everyday knowledge in the countries of origin, Arab nationalism, as well as specific religious and ethnic identities. The findings are discussed in relation to other recent studies, and against the backdrop of German media discourse, current debates about an \"imported\" antisemitism among refugees and migrants, and the relationship between experiences of racial discrimination and anti-Jewish attitudes.","PeriodicalId":148002,"journal":{"name":"Antisemitism Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116691338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Damascus Blood Libel to the \"Arab Spring\": The Evolution of Arab Antisemitism","authors":"Esther Webman","doi":"10.2979/ANTISTUD.1.1.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/ANTISTUD.1.1.06","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article traces the development of antisemitism in the Arab world, outlining major clusters of the phenomenon—Islamic anti-Jewish motifs; classic Western antisemitic tropes; and major themes in Holocaust discourse. It also highlights Arab voices critical of Arab antisemitic discourse, bigotry, and incitement against Jews—a subject largely neglected in the scholarly literature thus far. As in other societies, Arab antisemitism is not a phenomenon that is isolated from other social and political trends, but is part and parcel of the ongoing debate between competing worldviews.","PeriodicalId":148002,"journal":{"name":"Antisemitism Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122468128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}