{"title":"The Policy of the Catholic Church Toward the Jews (1943)","authors":"O. Kirchheimer","doi":"10.2979/ANTISTUD.2.2.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/ANTISTUD.2.2.05","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Otto Kirchheimer's 1943 unpublished essay on the policy of the Catholic Church toward the Jews provides a historical overview of Catholic theological doctrines and political activities from medieval times through the modern period, concluding with the relationship between Pope Pius XII and Hitler's Germany. He emphasizes the rapid spread of antisemitic policies all over Europe after 1939 and the extent to which Catholicism helped lay the groundwork for these developments.","PeriodicalId":148002,"journal":{"name":"Antisemitism Studies","volume":"14 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":"127900636","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 Observer Observed: Narrating Surveillance in Gertrud Kolmar's Susanna","authors":"Carola Daffner","doi":"10.2979/ANTISTUD.2.2.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/ANTISTUD.2.2.07","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article is an exploratory reading of Gertrud Kolmar's novella Susanna, which the poet wrote under extreme circumstances between 1939 and 1940 in a Judenhaus in Berlin. Kolmar's novella offers unique and invaluable insight into acts of surveillance at the end of the Weimar Republic. The novella demonstrates how German-Jewish women experienced the damaging effects of small-town gossip, neighborhood spying, and daily instances of social ostracism. On the narrative level, Nazi oppression does not come into play, although racist and antisemitic ideologies are shown to have entered the surrounding Jewish world. Embedded within the story of Susanna is a critical commentary on prejudice within the Jewish community directed against more traditional Jews. My analysis of the first-person narrator and her ward illuminates how both female characters use the act of storytelling as an important strategy of negotiation, which is otherwise impossible.","PeriodicalId":148002,"journal":{"name":"Antisemitism Studies","volume":"9 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":"131040347","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":"Otto Kirchheimer's The Policy of the Catholic Church Toward the Jews (1943): A Forgotten Chapter of the Frankfurt School's Research on Antisemitism","authors":"Hubertus Buchstein","doi":"10.2979/ANTISTUD.2.2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/ANTISTUD.2.2.04","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article places Otto Kirchheimer's unpublished essay, The Policy of the Catholic Church Toward the Jews, within the context of the Frankfurt School's studies of antisemitism during the 1940s. It identifies the traces left by Kirchheimer's text on the Institute's subsequent research, and emphasizes the differences between Kirchheimer's approach and the future theory of antisemitism conceived by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, suggesting that this essay was the starting point for larger research projects on antisemitism by Horkheimer's Institute for Social Research. Kirchheimer's later writings on antisemitism are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":148002,"journal":{"name":"Antisemitism Studies","volume":"51 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":"126172750","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":"New Sensibilities, New Volatilities: Antisemitism in Contemporary Hungary","authors":"F. Laczó","doi":"10.2979/ANTISTUD.2.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/ANTISTUD.2.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines three case studies of new-old sensibilities toward antisemitism, the Holocaust, and liberalism, in Hungary, which show: 1) how in a climate of mutual resentment, a debatable charge of intellectual antisemitism elicited widespread rejection; 2) how an official attempt to partially displace the West European “Holocaust paradigm” during the 2014 Holocaust commemoration led to a recoding of an older anti-fascist narrative in a right-wing key; and, 3) how new discourses on ethnic homogeneity and the Hungarian mainstream’s partial convergence with the Western far-right have yielded an odd combination of anti-Jewish, anti-Muslim, and pro-Israel attitudes today. The article argues that antisemitism in Hungary grew substantially from 2006 to 2011, but has not exploded into a major political or social force under the authoritarian and xenophobic shift of the country since 2010. Hungarian Jews have not found themselves at the center of conflicts beyond their making, as in the past, but they are no longer able to enjoy the kind of security they experienced under Hungarian liberal democracy either—the situation in the country has become volatile and unpredictable.","PeriodicalId":148002,"journal":{"name":"Antisemitism Studies","volume":"29 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":"124913503","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":"Antisemitic Acts and Attitudes in Contemporary France: The Effects on French Jews","authors":"Günther Jikeli","doi":"10.2979/ANTISTUD.2.2.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/ANTISTUD.2.2.06","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Threats and violence from radicalized Islamists have led to heightened security measures for Jewish organizations in France. French soldiers are protecting Jewish schools, kindergartens, community centers, and other Jewish institutions. In addition to terrorism, there are a number of other factors that have led to increased antisemitism in France. This article discusses data on antisemitic incidents and surveys on antisemitic attitudes in France. While there is a clear rise in antisemitic incidents, the trend in antisemitic attitudes is less clear. Levels of antisemitic attitudes are particularly high among Muslims, the far-right, and also the far-left, but not necessarily among the general French population. However, the rise of antisemitism has hit observant Jews more than non-observant Jews and it has led to changes in behavior, including in the display of religious signs and avoidance of places of worship. Many French Jews today question their future in France.","PeriodicalId":148002,"journal":{"name":"Antisemitism Studies","volume":"213 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":"122450219","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":"Guilt, Resentment, and Post-Holocaust Democracy: The Frankfurt School's Analysis of \"Secondary Antisemitism\" in the Group Experiment and Beyond","authors":"L. Rensmann","doi":"10.2979/ANTISTUD.1.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/ANTISTUD.1.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Previous discussions of the Frankfurt School's work on Judeophobia have almost entirely neglected the Critical Theorists' pathbreaking analysis of \"secondary antisemitism\" after Auschwitz. This new form of Jew-hatred originates in the political and psychological desire to split off, repress, and downplay the memory of the Holocaust because such memory, with which Jews are often identified, evokes unwelcome guilt feelings. As Holocaust memory undermines the uncritical identification with a collective, family, or nation tainted by anti-Jewish mass atrocities, the repression of national guilt may unconsciously motivate the reproduction of resentments that helped cause the Shoah. In this light, the article re-examines the empirical postwar German study Group Experiment and other works of the Frankfurt School. Three specific defensive mechanisms in relation to historical collective guilt feelings are identified that engender a variety of antisemitic projections—from the \"Jewish power\" to \"Jewish money\" and other anti-Jewish tropes—after the Holocaust. It is argued that these insights into post-Holocaust secondary antisemitism, empirically analyzed in the German context, can partly be transferred to other contexts in European democracies and beyond. This article demonstrates that an unprocessed history of national guilt can have a negative impact on democracy and the resilience of antisemitism.","PeriodicalId":148002,"journal":{"name":"Antisemitism Studies","volume":"1 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":"127982193","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":"Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism in the Wake of the Holocaust: The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, 1946","authors":"Norman J. W. Goda","doi":"10.2979/ANTISTUD.1.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/ANTISTUD.1.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 1946, with the number of Jewish refugees in Western Europe increasing and with Mandatory Palestine suffering augmented unrest, a body called the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry Regarding the Problems of European Jewry and Palestine convened. Comprising six British and six American scholars, jurists, and statesmen, this official Committee heard testimony from all interested parties, then formulated recommendations for the United States and Great Britain. The Committee's records offer a unique window into how antisemitism informed ostensibly principled anti-Zionist arguments, particularly from Arab spokesmen who objected in principle to the Jewish presence in Palestine.","PeriodicalId":148002,"journal":{"name":"Antisemitism Studies","volume":"13 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":"123211331","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 Anti-Zionist Bridge: The East German Communist Contribution to Antisemitism's Revival After the Holocaust","authors":"J. Herf","doi":"10.2979/ANTISTUD.1.1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/ANTISTUD.1.1.05","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Communist anti-Zionism was an ideological offensive against the State of Israel whose advocates insisted that the accusation that they were motivated by antisemitism was an imperialist or Zionist trick to defuse legitimate criticism of Israel's policies toward the Arabs and the Palestinians. The associated rhetoric of anti-fascism, anti-imperialism and anti-racism made it possible for anti-Zionism to burst beyond the bounds of European neo-Nazi circles as well as its Arab and Palestinian or Islamist boundaries and became an enduring element of global Communist, radical leftist and third worldist politics. This anti-Zionism was the primary vehicle through which pejorative views, previously applied to Jews in the Western tradition, were now applied to the State of Israel around the world.","PeriodicalId":148002,"journal":{"name":"Antisemitism Studies","volume":"41 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":"133980881","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}