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Explores local incidents of antisemitism and antisemitic violence across Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Antisemitism --- Anti-Jewish attitudes --- Anti-Semitism --- Ethnic relations --- Prejudices --- Philosemitism --- History --- Europe --- Politics and government --- Ethnic relations.

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Only a few decades after the Holocaust, Belgian Jews, like most European Jewries, are under the attack of forces stemming from a variety of sources. How do they confront and stand these new hardships? Research done all over Europe from 2012 through 2013 tried to answer this question. Among the cases investigated, the Belgian Jewry is one of the most interesting. It is both versatile and representative, revealing essential components of the general experience of European Jews today. Conceptual considerations pave the way to the study of their plight that has been, by any criterion, anything but “usual'. Belgian Jews, it appears, are “like” many other Jewries in Europe but “a little more”. They highlight the question: is allosemitism at all surmountable? This book is also available in paperback.

Antisemitism --- Jews --- Antisémitisme --- Juifs --- History --- Histoire --- Antisémitisme --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Anti-Jewish attitudes --- Anti-Semitism --- Ethnic relations --- Prejudices --- Philosemitism

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Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew proposes a new way of understanding modern Orientalism. Tracing a path of modern Orientalist thought in German across crucial writings from the late eighteenth to the mid–twentieth centuries, Librett argues that Orientalism and anti-Judaism are inextricably entangled.Librett suggests, further, that the Western assertion of “material” power, in terms of which Orientalism is often read, is overdetermined by a “spiritual” weakness: an anxiety about the absence of absolute foundations and values that coincides with Western modernity itself. The modern West, he shows, posits an Oriental origin as a fetish to fill the absent place of lacking foundations. This fetish is appropriated as Western through a quasi-secularized application of Christian typology. Further, the Western appropriation of the “good” Orient always leaves behind the remainder of the “bad,” inassimilable Orient.The book traces variations on this theme through historicist and idealist texts of the nineteenth century and then shows how high modernists like Buber, Kafka, Mann, and Freud place this historicist narrative in question. The book concludes with the outlines of a cultural historiography that would distance itself from the metaphysics of historicism, confronting instead its underlying anxieties.

Orientalism --- Orientalism. --- Philosophy, German. --- Jews --- Public opinion --- Jews in literature. --- Orientalism in literature. --- East and West. --- History. --- Public opinion. --- Germany --- Intellectual life. --- Buber. --- Edward Said. --- Freud. --- German Idealism. --- German Romanticism. --- Goethe. --- Hegel. --- Herder. --- Jewish Studies. --- Kafka. --- Orientalism. --- Schlegel. --- Schopenhauer. --- anti-Semitism. --- deconstruction. --- disavowal. --- fetishism. --- figural interpretation. --- modernity. --- psychoanalysis. --- supercessionism. --- typology.

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This book traces the global, national, and local origins of the conflict between Muslims and Jews in France, challenging the belief that rising anti-Semitism in France is rooted solely in the unfolding crisis in Israel and Palestine. Maud Mandel shows how the conflict in fact emerged from processes internal to French society itself even as it was shaped by affairs elsewhere, particularly in North Africa during the era of decolonization. Mandel examines moments in which conflicts between Muslims and Jews became a matter of concern to French police, the media, and an array of self-appointed spokesmen from both communities: Israel's War of Independence in 1948, France's decolonization of North Africa, the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the 1968 student riots, and François Mitterrand's experiments with multiculturalism in the 1980's. She takes an in-depth, on-the-ground look at interethnic relations in Marseille, which is home to the country's largest Muslim and Jewish populations outside of Paris. She reveals how Muslims and Jews in France have related to each other in diverse ways throughout this history--as former residents of French North Africa, as immigrants competing for limited resources, as employers and employees, as victims of racist aggression, as religious minorities in a secularizing state, and as French citizens. In Muslims and Jews in France, Mandel traces the way these multiple, complex interactions have been overshadowed and obscured by a reductionist narrative of Muslim-Jewish polarization.

Muslims --- Jews --- Social integration --- Social conditions --- Cultural assimilation --- France --- Ethnic relations. --- France. --- French Jews. --- French Muslims. --- French minority policies. --- Israel. --- Jews. --- Marseille. --- Middle East. --- Muslims. --- MuslimЊewish relations. --- North Africa. --- North African Jew. --- Palestine. --- Palsetine. --- anti-Semitism. --- citizenship. --- colonial policy. --- conflict. --- decolonization. --- displacement. --- ethno-religious participation. --- foreign policy. --- integration. --- migration. --- mixed immigrant neighborhoods. --- particularism. --- pluriculturalism. --- polarization. --- political participation. --- racism. --- racist aggression. --- religious minority. --- student uprising.

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Joy H. Calico examines the cultural history of postwar Europe through the lens of the performance and reception of Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw-a short but powerful work, she argues, capable of irritating every exposed nerve in postwar Europe. Schoenberg, a Jewish composer whose oeuvre had been one of the Nazis' prime exemplars of entartete (degenerate) music, immigrated to the United States and became an American citizen. Both admired and reviled as a pioneer of dodecaphony, he wrote this twelve-tone piece about the Holocaust in three languages for an American audience. This book investigates the meanings attached to the work as it circulated through Europe during the early Cold War in a kind of symbolic musical remigration, focusing on six case studies: West Germany, Austria, Norway, East Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Each case is unique, informed by individual geopolitical concerns, but this analysis also reveals common themes in anxieties about musical modernism, Holocaust memory and culpability, the coexistence of Jews and former Nazis, anti-Semitism, dislocation, and the presence of occupying forces on both sides of the Cold War divide.

MUSIC / History & Criticism. --- HISTORY / Europe / General. --- MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical. --- Schoenberg, Arnold, --- Shenberg, Arnolʹd, --- Schönberg, Arnold, --- Schenberg, A. --- Shenberg, A. --- שנברג, ארנולד --- Appreciation --- Music --- History --- Genres & Styles --- Classical. --- Europe --- General. --- History & Criticism. --- Schönberg, Arnold --- 20th century world history. --- a survivor in warsaw. --- anti semitism. --- arnold schoenberg. --- austria. --- austrian composer. --- cantata. --- chromatic scale. --- cold war. --- composer. --- cultural history. --- czechoslovakia. --- death camps. --- death. --- degenerate music. --- dodecaphony. --- east germany. --- geopolitical concerns. --- geopolitics. --- holocaust victims. --- holocaust. --- jewish composer. --- lens of performance. --- mass death. --- memory. --- music. --- musical modernism. --- nazi. --- norway. --- poland. --- postwar europe. --- reception studies. --- second world war. --- twelve tone technique. --- west germany. --- world history.