Birnbaum Professor (5 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Readers International, c.1992, small 8vo., cloth, 209pp., VG/VG $.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Pierre Birnbaum offers a timely reconsideration of the tear-stained pages of Jewish history and the persistence of antisemitism.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - For many Jews, for more than a century, the United States has seemed to be a safe haven. There has been antisemitic prejudice, but nothing on the scale of the discrimination, persecution, pogroms, and genocide witnessed in Europe. White American ethnic violence has assailed many targets, but Jews have rarely been among them. Observing what he took to be an American exception, the influential historian Salo Baron challenged the 'lachrymose conception' of Jewish history as an unending flow of oppressions, and many have followed him in seeing American Jews as sheltered from violence. But in recent years a spate of antisemitic attacks has cast doubt on this rosy view.The eminent French scholar Pierre Birnbaum offers a timely reconsideration of the tear-stained pages of Jewish history and the persistence of antisemitism. He explores the promise of American tolerance as well as the darkest moments of American intolerance, such as the 1913 lynching of Leo Frank. Birnbaum engages deeply with Baron's views about Jewish history and tracks the echoes of European antisemitic violence in American culture. He argues that a new and insidious form of antisemitic ideology has arisen, one that sees the state as an instrument of Jewish control-and threatens further bloodshed. Thoughtful and eloquent, Tears of History is an important reflection on the roots of antisemitic violence and hatred.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. Name on inside board, otherwise a very nice copy of a RARE book, never reprinted. The English translator, Dr.G.Blacker, has added additional notes etc., expanding the original Swedish work by 100 pages. The 58 text illustrations and 9 plates are suitably disturbing. The four page chapter "The Legal Rights Of Monsters" is suitably brief. Illustrated. (illustrator).…

Bd. I mit 1158 Seiten / Bd. II mit 1060 Seiten, blind geprägte Original-Leineneinbände ca. 16 × 24 cm mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel, marmorierter Schnitt, Einbände geringfügig bestoßen und beschabt sowie lichtrandig, Rücken lichtrandig sowie am oberen Kapital geringfügig beschädigt, Bibliotheksaufkleber aus Papier auf unterem Rücken, Bibliotheksstempel und Aufkleber auf Innendeckel, Titelseite ebenfalls mit Bibliotheksstempel sowie kleinem schriftlichem Besitzervermerk, insgesamt brauchbare fest eingebundene Exemplare. …