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Anti‑Semitism, sometimes called history’s oldest hatred, is hostility or prejudice against Jewish people. The Nazi Holocaust is history’s most extreme example of anti‑Semitism. Anti ...
Historians have debated the importance of antisemitic rhetoric in the Populist movement in rural America in the 1890s. Richard Hofstadter, a leading historian, in 1955 argued that the Greenback-Populist tradition was responsible for most of the popular antisemitism in the United States.
[196] [197] Poland's later "March events" of 1967–1968 was a state anti-Jewish (officially anti-Zionist) political campaign involving the suppression of the dissident movement and a power struggle within the Polish communist party against the background of the Six-Day War and the Soviet Union's and the Eastern Bloc's new radically anti-Israeli policy in support of socialist Arab countries ...
Why the Jews: History of Antisemitism. A group of Jewish girls wearing the yellow star. —United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek. This 13-minute film introduces the history of antisemitism from its origins in the days of the early Christian church until the era of the Holocaust in the mid-20th ...
Oct 4, 2018 · In his view, political anti-Semitism in Germany was underpinned by myths whose persuasive power was in decline. The growing strength of the Social Democrats, he believed, meant that real social conflicts had eclipsed the fictions that fed anti-Semitism, and the forces of reaction now counted on support from the Jewish middle class. 19
- David Feldman
- 2018
May 5, 2022 · Summary. A history and periodization of American antisemitism that asks (1) whether to understand the phenomenon as grimly eternal, dependably cyclical, or just as an occasional and episodic factor in American history; (2) whether to interpret antisemitism as a “cultural code,” revealing less about Jews than about the culture that ...
Oct 29, 2018 · October 29, 2018. Anti-Semitism reared its ugly head this Sabbath in the deadliest attack on Jews in American history. The 46-year-old Robert D. Bowers walked into Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life ...
