books about: anti-semitism

books about: anti-semitism

books:

Anti-semitism

Heretic: A Novel (Library of American Fiction)

Lewis M. Weinstein

University of Wisconsin Press, 2003

The roots of anti-Semitism
Reading "The Heretic" was a truly revealing experience for me. For many years I've grqppled with the problem of why Jews have been singled out for persecution by so many different peoples at different times and at different places throughout history. "The Heretic" ...

Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism

Kevin MacDonald

1st Books Library, 2003

Anti-semitism explained
Basically you can sum up the message of this book in a few words; the racialism and segregation of gentiles appear in response to Jewish racialism and segregation, and NOT the other way around. The book first deals with the theoretical aspects of group evolutionary ...

Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz

Jan Gross

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007

Disturbing book, a noble effort which failed
I have read "Fear" with much pain. As a Pole, each time Gross wrote about how my compatriots killed and robbed their Jewish neighbours, my heart ached. The facts presented in this book have not been unknown to historians, but they were not publicly discussed in Poland ...

The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day

Walter Laqueur

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

An excellent book
This thoughtful and rather comprehensive book got me to come up with my own definition of anti-Semitism: Anti-Semitism is participation in a gratuitous war against the Jews. I know that most folks may disagree with this definition. But I feel it removes some of ...

Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History

Norman G. Finkelstein

University of California Press, 2008

An essay about the truth
The book is a classic and I will not discuss it further. I will add that Finkelstein is a martyr for the truth. His courageous exposure of Zionist and Israeli attempts to manipulate the truth and deny it has cost him dear. He got fired from his academic position ...

The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews (Jewish Encounters)

David Mamet

Schocken, 2006

My Review/Wonderful Book
Movies, Books, Music & ArtCommentaries David Mamet's 'The Wicked Son' Column: Interesting Times Lynne Bundesen [...] May 25, 2007 "See also, the bachelor who manages to find in every potential mate something just a little bit wrong. This person may be accused ...

From Prejudice to Destruction: Anti-Semitism, 1700-1933

Jacob Katz

Harvard University Press, 2006

Introduction to the History of Anti-Semitic Thought
This book was a textbook for a class I took on the Holocaust. I have since read other works by Jacob Katz and I find his work to be well-written, even for people who are not academics, and thorough in its approach. This book in particular offers an excellent survey of ...

The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism

David I. Kertzer

Vintage, 2002

Old Bigotries Never Die....
...but unlike "old soldiers", they seldom fade away. Instead they are refurbished, recycled and reapplied. It's the similarities that I note, between the rise of pre-Shoah anti-Semitism and the new anti-Semitism of Mark Steyn and his ilk - remembering that Arabs are ...

Who Killed Jesus?: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus

John Dominic Crossan

HarperOne, 1996

Crossan Calls Us to a Mature Faith
Crossan compares and contrasts the Passion Narratives (written to explain the crime, arrest, trial and abuse, execution, burial, and resurrection of Jesus) in the four Gospels and includes a fifth, the Gospel of Peter. With uncompromising scholarship, Crossan contrasts ...

The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

Helmut Walser Smith

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

A History Of An Hysteria
The Butcher's Tale is on the surface the story of the murder of an 18 year old boy in an obscure town in a backwards corner of Germany in 1900. The parts of the book which deal with the discovery of the body and the subsequent investigations read like any report of a ...

Cultural Insurrections:essays on Western Civilization, Jewish Influence, & Anti-semitism

Kevin MacDonald, 2008

A brilliant collection of essays
This book deserves the widest possible readership. Despite vicious attacks on him by various academicians as well as by the truly loathsome SPLC, Cal State Long Beach Professor of Psychology Kevin Macdonald has courageously continued to produce scholarly analyses ...

The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism: Jews, Israel, and Liberal Opinion (Philosophy and the Global Context)

Bernard Harrison

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006

A mental disorder that invades minds, bodies and society
In this absorbing book, Harrison examines the New Antisemitism as it manifests today on the Left Liberal side of the political spectrum, with special reference to the BBC and publications like The New Statesman, The Guardian and The Independent. In the opening chapter, ...

The Koch Papers: My Fight Against Anti-Semitism

Edward I. Koch

Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

what it means to be a good citizen
This is more than a book about Koch's successful and unsuccessful battles against anti-Semitism. This is a book that shows (by example) what it means to be a good citizen. And what it means to be a bad one. And Koch provides us with plenty of examples of both ...

In Search of Anti-Semitism

William F. Buckley

Continuum International Publishing Group, 1993

Highly intellectual, but interesting exposition
Mr. Buckley is an excellent writer and a spiritual man with a conservative point of view. In this book he takes several of his writer-colleagues to task for alleged anti-Semitic sentiments expressed in anti-Israeli discourse. In doing so, he attempts to delineate a ...