%0 Book %T Confronting antisemitism through the ages: a historical perspective %E Lange, Armin %E Mayerhofer, Kerstin %E Porat, Dinah %E Schiffman, Lawrence H. %S An end to antisemitism! 3 %D 2021 %I De Gruyter %C Berlin %@ 9783110671995 %G English %F 1769564543 %O edited by Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat, Lawrence H. Schiffman %X Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Comprehending Antisemitism through the Ages: Introduction -- Comprehending Antisemitism in Antiquity and Late Antiquity -- Early Christian Anti-Judaism -- Jew-Hatred in Antiquity: Cultural, Legal, and Physical Forms of Antisemitic Persecution -- The Blood Libel and the Leper Libel: Ancient Antisemitism? -- Divinity, Ethnicity, Identity: “Religion” as a Political Category in Christian Antiquity -- Comprehending Antisemitism in the Middle Ages -- The Evolution of Anti-Jewish Imagery in Medieval Christian Europe -- Inferiority Embodied: The ‘Men-struating’ Jew and Pre-Modern Notions of Identity and Difference -- “All the World’s a Stage”: Imagined Jewish Rituals in Medieval Christian Art and Drama -- Anti-Jewish Legislation in the Middle Ages -- Comprehending Antisemitism in Modern Times -- Georg Ritter von Schönerers Radikalisierung zum Rassenantisemiten vom Linzer Programm 1882 bis zur Gründung des „Verbandes der Deutschnationalen“ 1885 -- The Defense against Antisemitism: Minor Victories, Major Defeats, 1890–1939 -- The Jewish Response to Antisemitism in Austria Prior to the Anschluss -- Nazi Propaganda in the Middle East and its Repercussions in the Postwar Period -- Comprehending Shoah and Post-Shoah Antisemitism -- Is the Holocaust a Unique Historical Event? A Debate between Two Pillars of Holocaust Research and its Impact on the Study of Antisemitism -- Caribbean Jewry: A Model of Tolerance or Assimilation? -- Sholem Aleichem and Qumran: Jewish-Related Scholarship in the Soviet Union, 1953–1967 -- Sister Rose Thering’s Battle against Antisemitism -- Antisemitism in Today’s America -- Antisemitic Perceptions and Jewish Sense of Belonging -- Comprehending Anti-Zionism as a Virulent Form of “New Antisemitism” -- The German Left and Israel -- Comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany in Contemporary German Discourse -- “Israel Threatens to Defend Itself”: The Depiction of Israel in the Media -- Editorial Board -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements %K HISTORY / Jewish %K Anti-Semitism %K strategies against anti-Semitism %K anti-Judaism, anti-Jewish stereotypes %9 Text %R 10.1515/9783110671995 %U https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110671995 %U https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9783110671995.jpg %U https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9783110582321.pdf %U https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110671995/original %U https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671995