Y. Altman, Johannes Koll, W. Mayrhofer, Michael Müller-Camen, Alyssa Schneebaum
{"title":"Contours of Workplace Antisemitism: Initial Thoughts and a Research Agenda","authors":"Y. Altman, Johannes Koll, W. Mayrhofer, Michael Müller-Camen, Alyssa Schneebaum","doi":"10.1515/9783110671971-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671971-008","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of the rising tide of antisemitism worldwide, we wish to draw the contours of workplace organizational antisemitism, a hitherto ignored topic in contemporary scholarship, by presenting a framework for its study. In particular, we propose an interdisciplinary understanding of antisemitism in the workplace, drawing on theories and evidence from economics, management, and business. To contextually embed our propositions, we focus our discussion on two countries: Germany and Austria. We argue that given the deep-rooted, widespread antisemitic attitudes prevalent in both countries—in spite of their miniscule Jewish populations—it would be prudent for organizations and the people who work in them to be aware of and concerned with antisemitism.We offer two theoretical lenses explicating the underlying motivation for antisemitic conduct-primed goal pursuits (Goal Setting Theory) and mortality salience instigation and/or perceived violation of key worldview precepts (Terror Management Theory). These theories provide the dynamic element for our model on its four currents: Jewish “presence” (real and imaginary), implicit discrimination, Jewish identity, and grassroots cultural antisemitism. Highlighting selective issues of relevance to organizations and management, we end with suggestions for a research agenda.","PeriodicalId":299386,"journal":{"name":"Confronting Antisemitism from Perspectives of Philosophy and Social Sciences","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129631836","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":"Preface and Acknowledgements","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110671971-001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671971-001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299386,"journal":{"name":"Confronting Antisemitism from Perspectives of Philosophy and Social Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131245293","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 Transmission of Hatred and the Hatred of Transmission: The Psychopathology of a Murder and an Anatomy of a Silence. The Nobody’s Name: A Contemporary Symptom","authors":"Michel Gad Wolkowicz","doi":"10.1515/9783110671971-009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671971-009","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to address the psychopathology of antisemitism, anti-Jewish aggressions, and more specifically of present-day denials of the Real, a version of “ negationism ” or “ denialism, ” which has always been consubstantial with it. As a starting point, I will use two particularly savage murders, which were committed in France ten years apart (fifteen targeted attacks having taken place in the meantime). In 2007, a young man named Ilan Halimi, precariously employed as a sales assistant in a cell phone shop, was kidnapped as a Jew (hence supposedly likely to raise a huge ransom). He was tortured for twenty-four days and finally murdered, the persistent denial of the antisemitic nature of the act tragically hampering the conduct of the investigation. In May 2017, a sixty-seven-year-old Jewish woman employed at a kindergarten and living in a low-income Paris neighborhood was tortured for a whole night in her home by a twenty-seven-year-old man whose Muslim family, including himself, had been insulting and threatening her for months. She was finally murdered and thrown out of a window. Her name was Sarah Halimi. The anatomy of the act itself, as well as the resounding silencing of its antisemitic nature by intellectuals, politicians, and the media can truly be interpreted as a contemporary symptom. I will be concerned here with exploring the mass-psychology characterizing antisemitism, together with the genealogy of the culture underlying it, which presents itself as a meeting point for Christian radicalism, the ultra-left, an expression of the return of a Paulinian repressed, and Islamic totalitarianism. The to","PeriodicalId":299386,"journal":{"name":"Confronting Antisemitism from Perspectives of Philosophy and Social Sciences","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130935590","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 Contribution of Religious Education to the Prevention of Antisemitism: An International Empirical Study","authors":"Reinhold Boschki","doi":"10.1515/9783110671971-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671971-005","url":null,"abstract":"This research project is situated in the Europe-wide discussion on historical remembrance and the challenges of antisemitism today. The specific emphasis of the study is Holocaust remembrance in religious education. Within this horizon, we examine the practice of religious education by analyzing how the complex topic of Holocaust remembrance and antisemitism is approached and perceived by pupils and teachers in the context of this specific school subject. The research project asks, by means of an international comparative approach, how the topic of Holocaust remembrance and antisemitism is dealt with within religious education in the curriculum of secondary schools in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Going beyond the theoretical and mostly normative discourse, the emphasis is set on the empirical investigation of the practice of religious education focusing on antisemitism. This was examined in all three countries via an online questionnaire. This approach provides an overview and statistical data about various ways of teaching Holocaust remembrance and about antisemitism. Part of the online questionnaire is a qualitative analysis of short texts written by teachers involved and initiated by open questions. Additional interviews provide deeper insight of the teachers ’ experiences, obstacles, and achievements in class while covering the topic of antisemitism. In her rejection of every persecution against any man, the Church, mindful of the patrimony she shares with the Jews and moved not by political reasons but by the Gospel ’ s spiritual love, decries hatred, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone.","PeriodicalId":299386,"journal":{"name":"Confronting Antisemitism from Perspectives of Philosophy and Social Sciences","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121445637","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":"Does Learning about Genocide Impact the Values of Young People? A Case Study from Scotland","authors":"H. Maitles","doi":"10.1515/9783110671971-016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671971-016","url":null,"abstract":"In many countries throughout the world, an integral component of education for citizenship is the development of informed values and attitudes.Within this context, issues involving topics such as an understanding of human rights, democracy, genocide, antisemitism, Islamophobia, and racism can be central to the development of more rounded human be-ings. There is a case for giving pupils experience in areas of learning relating to citizenship such as human rights and genocide outside the structures of the traditional subject based classroom. Such a method of learning has been attempted in the West of Scotland comprehensive, which is the subject of this study. Students in S1 (first year of secondary education — 12 – 13 years of age) and in the final year associated primary (elementary schools — 11 – 12 years of age) were taken off normal timetable for thirteen days and were engaged in a series of rich tasks and learning experiences (involving role play activities) ranging from understanding genocide, including the Holocaust and Rwanda, to UNESCO rights respecting schools initiatives to understanding poverty in the developing world to challenging intol-erance. Review no. Review","PeriodicalId":299386,"journal":{"name":"Confronting Antisemitism from Perspectives of Philosophy and Social Sciences","volume":"150 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116659655","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":"Antisemitism: National or Transnational Constellation?","authors":"S. Della Pergola","doi":"10.1515/9783110671971-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671971-003","url":null,"abstract":"The fundamentals of contemporary antisemitism are explored in this paper through the use of quantitative data sources and techniques.We review the basic content of subject matter; main sources and methods of data analysis; antisemitism definitions and typologies; world population distributions of Jews and antisemites; the position of antisemitism within the complex of Jewish identification; actual Jewish perceptions and experiences of antisemitism; ideological matrices of antisemitism and inner-outer perceptional consistency; responses to antisemitism; and some implications for future research. Data illustrative of these challenges and dilemmas are presented from recent research mostly in the European Union but also the United States and Latin America—emphasizing cognitive, behavioral, and affective aspects.","PeriodicalId":299386,"journal":{"name":"Confronting Antisemitism from Perspectives of Philosophy and Social Sciences","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134040004","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":"Does Islam Fuel Antisemitism?","authors":"N. Kressel","doi":"10.1515/9783110671971-013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671971-013","url":null,"abstract":"Quotations can always be taken out of context, and the words of any given leader do not necessarily represent the views of his or her followers. Nonetheless, it can be useful to hear what a few admittedly extreme Muslim leaders have been saying about Jews recently. Consider, for example, how the Sudanese Imam Mohamed Abdul-Kareem responded in February, 2017, to a call for normalization of relations with Israel. “The Muslims’ enmity toward the Jews,” he suggested,","PeriodicalId":299386,"journal":{"name":"Confronting Antisemitism from Perspectives of Philosophy and Social Sciences","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133726465","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":"“Antisemitism From Its Origins to the Present”: An Online Video Course by Yad Vashem","authors":"Yossi Kugler, Dafna Dolinko","doi":"10.1515/9783110671971-020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671971-020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299386,"journal":{"name":"Confronting Antisemitism from Perspectives of Philosophy and Social Sciences","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115297617","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 Phantasm of the Jew in French Philosophy: From Jean-Paul Sartre to Alain Badiou","authors":"V. Liska","doi":"10.1515/9783110671971-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671971-012","url":null,"abstract":"“ Between Sartre and the Jew in person, the Jew as idea, the phantasm of the Jew inter-vened. ” ¹ With this diagnosis, Benny Lévy, in his 1986 essay “ Sartre et la Judéité, ” points to a distinction that underlies some of the most intense philosophical debates concerning Jews and Judaism in the decades following Sartre ’ s Réflexions sur la question juive. This article reconstructs the development of the form, function, and fate of this “ phantasm, ” from Sartre ’ s contentious designation of the Jew as nothing but a construction of the antisemite to its openly antagonistic and highly problematic inflection in Alain Badiou ’ s call for the disappearance of the “ SIT Jew, ” who derives his identity from the triad Shoah, Israel, and the Talmud.","PeriodicalId":299386,"journal":{"name":"Confronting Antisemitism from Perspectives of Philosophy and Social Sciences","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124967642","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":"On the Ethical Implications and Political Costs of Misinterpreting and Abusing the Notion “Anti-Semitism”","authors":"L. Dencik","doi":"10.1515/9783110671971-014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671971-014","url":null,"abstract":"There is antisemitism in the world, even several distinct kinds of antisemitisms. There is also a lively discourse on what antisemitism is. This discourse, often inflamed, is pierced by both hypersensitivity and rejections, accusations and counteraccusations. Different groups have vested political interests both in launching accusations of antisemitism and in denying that certain propositions and actions are in fact antisemitic. The interrelations between actual real-life antisemitism and the discourse on antisemitism in media and public debate in general are subtle and complex. This article focuses on how the notion “ antisemitism ” in the contemporary era is sometimes used by different political interests as a vehicle for promoting certain political goals. By way of conclusion, the ethical implications and political costs for the Jewish people of the political exploitation of the fear Jews associate with real-life antisemitism is discussed.","PeriodicalId":299386,"journal":{"name":"Confronting Antisemitism from Perspectives of Philosophy and Social Sciences","volume":"279 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116563440","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}