Sites of European Antisemitism in the Age of Mass Politics, 1880–1918 (The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611685826 ISBN 13: 9781611685824

Publisher: Brandeis University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This innovative collection of essays on the upsurge of antisemitism across Europe in the decades around 1900 shifts the focus away from intellectuals and well-known incidents to less-familiar events, actors, and locations, including smaller towns and villages. This “from below” perspective offers a new look at a much-studied phenomenon: essays link provincial violence and antisemitic politics with regional, state, and even transnational trends. Featuring a diverse array of geographies that include Great Britain, France, Austria-Hungary, Romania, Italy, Greece, and the Russian Empire, the book demonstrates the complex interplay of many factors―economic, religious, political, and personal―that led people to attack their Jewish neighbors.

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About the Author

ROBERT NEMES is associate professor of history, Colgate University. DANIEL UNOWSKY is professor of history, University of Memphis.

Review

"[The] work shows that we must distinguish more carefully between, on the one hand, the triggers and varying "functions" of antisemitism and, on the other, their transmission and reception, facilitated by unconscious and unchanging preconditions and presuppositions. To neglect these latter because they seem to be familiar in order to concentrate on the superficial novelties of the former because they are "new" is to adhere too faithfully to the self-definitions and "rules" of the antisemites themselves. It does not occur often enough to our excellent authors that it was in the interest of antisemitic leaders to feature and lionize the immediate "new" issues while hiding the long-standing ones."-- "Jewish History"

Edition details

• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1611685826
• ISBN 13: 9781611685824
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Robert Nemes, Daniel Unowsky