Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 239 mm x 163 mm, Gewicht: 588 g
Capitalism and Modern Anti-Semitism
Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 239 mm x 163 mm, Gewicht: 588 g
ISBN: 978-0-231-17038-3
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Carefully analyzing obscure texts, Michele Battini targets the critical moment in which anti-Jewish stereotypes morphed into a sophisticated, modern social anti-Semitism. He recovers the potent, anti-Jewish anticapitalist propaganda that cemented the idea of a Jewish conspiracy in the European mind, despite ample evidence to challenge it. The Jewish conspiracy myth proved to be a significant political event in Europe. Battini's investigation is crucial to understanding the atrocities that characterized the Jewish experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the ongoing threat to the welfare of Jews today.
Beginning in the eighteenth century, counter-Enlightenment intellectuals and intransigent Catholic writers singled out Jews for conspiring to exploit self-sustaining markets and the liberal state. And, with the old enemies of Christianity now assimilating into society, these opinion makers warned, Jews could plot in secret. Toussenel and Proudhon spread these ideas among socialist and labor movements in the nineteenth century, and their conspiracy theories only intensified during the Long Depression of the 1870s. Anti-Jewish anticapitalism then migrated to Western Europe: in the Habsburg Empire with the Christian Social Party; in Germany with the Anti-Semitic Leagues; and in France with the nationalist movements. It also traveled to Italy, where Revolutionary Syndicalists made anti-Jewish anticapitalism the basis of an alliance with the nationalists, laying the foundation for Mussolini's ideology.
Battini's unique timeline sheds light on the origins of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as well, the infamous document that "leaked" Jewish plans to conquer the world. Anti-Jewish anticapitalist propaganda informed the creation of that pamphlet, and its inversion of reality nurtured a perverse relationship to historical and judicial truth that is still with us today.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Faschismus, Rechtsextremismus
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Moderne & Gegenwart
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
- Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums außerhalb Israels/Palästinas
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. "Is the Palestine Capitalist Here?"2. European "National Socialism" and Its Propaganda3. The Dark Core of Italian Civilization: Fascism and the Path of Paolo Orano4. An Interpretation of Anti-Jewish Anticapitalism5. The Shoah, Social Anti-Semitism, and Its AftermathNotesIndex
