{"title":"Conversations with Robert: “Jews as Jews” and the Critique of the Critique","authors":"D. Seymour","doi":"10.26613/JCA/2.1.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/JCA/2.1.24","url":null,"abstract":"I first met Robert some twenty-five years ago. I had just begun my PhD. As time passed, it was evident that things were not working out between me and my then supervisor, and Robert, whom I had met earlier, stepped in and offered to take over. After a little hesitation (and for the very reasons Robert had identi- fied), I agreed. I think it would not be an over- statement to say that without that intervention, I would have simply given up. Robert had an uncanny way of building up what was, by then, my shattered confidence. It was only after I had finished that I realized how Robert put me back together both emotionally and academically. Robert would respond to my work, first, by saying how good it was, how insightful, and then spend the rest of the time gently taking it (but not me) to pieces while at the same time moving me in directions and making connections I did not see myself.","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"2 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":"128817627","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":"Ten Reasons Why I Oppose Boycotts Against Israeli Academics (And Why You Should Too!)","authors":"Robert Fine","doi":"10.26613/JCA/2.1.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/JCA/2.1.25","url":null,"abstract":"This is not the first time I have been embroiled in a boycott debate. In the 1980s, I was involved in solidarity work with the fledgling indepen- dent trade unions in South Africa. They were a living expression of non-racial democracy across so-called national lines. Solidarity included establishing direct links between South African and British unions at official and rank–and-file levels. As a result of our solidarity activities, we were pilloried by leading figures in anti-apartheid, the ANC, and the South African Communist Party for breaking the boycott! When we invited a South African academic, a leading advocate of the new unions and anti-apartheid scholar, to speak at our Comparative Labour Studies pro- gram at Warwick University, a demonstration was organized by a couple of SACP stalwarts to prevent him from speaking. When we wrote a trade union solidarity pamphlet, we were told that unions could only be legal in South Africa if they collaborated with the regime and that we were in effect collaborationists. Beneath the argument about boycott what was really going on was a political battle between a progressive socialist politics and quite reactionary nationalist politics. It is a battle that has not stopped and is rising to the surface in contemporary South Africa. I grant there is no direct analogy between the boycott of apartheid South Africa and that of Israeli academic insti- tutions, but I contend that a similar political battle is taking place—a battle for our future political life.","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"5 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":"132866075","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 Devil that Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism. By Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. Little, Brown and Company, 2013. 496 pages. Paperback $12.99 / £14.99","authors":"Alexander Traum","doi":"10.26613/JCA/2.1.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/JCA/2.1.27","url":null,"abstract":"The Devil that Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism . By Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. Little, Brown and Company, 2013. 496 pages. Paperback $12.99 / £14.99","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"88 22","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120810258","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":"Ivan Lefkovits’s With my memory, I live… (“O minuloste, která nesmi upadnout v zapomnéni,” Ziji se svou Minulisti, No. 16 [2017], 25–31)","authors":"Gert Weisskirchen","doi":"10.26613/jca/1.2.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca/1.2.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122990820","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":"Perpetrator Testimony and Historiography: The Case of Dieter Wisliceny and the Decision-Making Process on the “Final Solution”","authors":"D. Michman","doi":"10.26613/jca/1.2.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca/1.2.11","url":null,"abstract":"Historians, especially those of contemporary history, have debated the value of testimonies for the reconstruction of a historical picture. In Holocaust research, “testimonies” are usually understood as “survivor testimonies”; because of the traumatic character of the persecutions, many historians, especially in the field of so-called “perpetrator research,” have been reluctant to use them. The late Eberhard Jackel wrote in 1984 that many died before they could be interrogated, but “even those who were ready to talk were often not questioned precisely enough, for their interrogators were not interested in the kinds of details that historians would want to clarify.” This article examines Dieter Wisliceny’s written testimony from November 1946 and shows that, even though not asked to do so, he provided deep historical insights regarding the psychological atmosphere in which the Final Solution of the Jewish Question emerged, which was soaked with an apocalyptic antisemitic imagery, and regarding the timeline of the development of this program.","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126855032","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":"Explanations of Antisemitism in the British Postcolonial Left","authors":"Lev Topor","doi":"10.26613/jca/1.2.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca/1.2.10","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that the current British Left ideology can cause antisemitism through its values. The key purpose of this article is to identify why a modern liberal political ideology such as the British Left is infected with antisemitism. The British Left emphasizes postcolonialism, human rights, and liberalism. Though these values are important, they can lead to the intensification of antisemitism. Three key explanations of postcolonial antisemitism and anti-Zionism will be presented. First, antisemitism can be circumstantial in the leftist movement. Second, it can be philosophically reasonable. Third, it can even be simply racist. This argument will be examined by a qualitative narrative analysis of British history and culture of antisemitism, leftist antisemitism, and anti-Zionism, accompanied by the explanations and excuses for it. Keywords: Antisemitism, British, human rights, new antisemitism, left, postcolonialism","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"213 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122812855","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":"Post-Notebook Heideggerism—The Myths Continue: A Review Essay","authors":"Thomas Klikauer","doi":"10.26613/jca/1.2.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca/1.2.13","url":null,"abstract":"Peter Trawny, Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015, xii + 147 pages. Alfred J. Noll, Der rechte Werkmeister—Martin Heidegger nach den Schwarzen Heften [ The Right’s Craft-Master—Martin Heidegger after the Black Notebooks ]. Cologne: PapyRossa Press, 2016, 238 pages.","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132828719","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 Nature of Postcommunist Antisemitism in East Central Europe: Ideology’s Backdoor Return","authors":"M. Shafir","doi":"10.26613/jca/1.2.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/jca/1.2.12","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes contemporary antisemitism and Holocaust distortion in Eastern Europe. The main argument is that Brown and Red, Nazism and Communism, respectively are not at all equal. In Eastern Europe, in particular, antisemitic ideology is grounded on the rehabilitation of anticommunist national “heroes.” The history of the Holocaust is thereby distorted. Based on Maurice Halbwachs’s theory of “social frameworks,” the author shows how “competitive martyrdom,” the “Double Genocide” ideology, and “Holocaust obfuscation” are intertwined. Empirically, the paper examines these concepts in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary, Serbia and Croatia, and Romania. Keywords: Double Genocide, Holocaust Distortion, East European antisemitism, Holocaust, Gulag, anticommunism, national identity","PeriodicalId":283546,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125264458","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}