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Revisiting the Jewish Question (Paperback)
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Revisiting the Jewish Question (Paperback)
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What does it mean to be Jewish? What is an anti-Semite? Why does
the enigmatic identity of the men who founded the first
monotheistic religion arouse such passions? We need to return to
the Jewish question. We need, first, to distinguish between the
anti-Judaism of medieval times, which persecuted the Jews, and the
anti-Judaism of the Enlightenment, which emancipated them while
being critical of their religion. It is a mistake to confuse the
two and see everyone from Voltaire to Hitler as anti-Semitic in the
same way. Then we need to focus on the development of anti-Semitism
in Europe, especially Vienna and Paris, where the Zionist idea was
born. Finally, we need to investigate the reception of Zionism both
in the Arab countries and within the Diaspora. Re-examining the
Jewish question in the light of these distinctions and
investigations, Roudinesco shows that there is a permanent tension
between the figures of the universal Jew and the territorial Jew .
Freud and Jung split partly over this issue, which gained added
intensity after the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 and the
Eichmann trial in 1961. Finally, Roudinesco turns to the Holocaust
deniers, who started to suggest that the Jews had invented the
genocide that befell their people, and to the increasing number of
intellectual and literary figures who have been accused of
anti-Semitism. This thorough re-examination of the Jewish question
will be of interest to students and scholars of modern history and
contemporary thought and to a wide readership interested in
anti-Semitism and the history of the Jews.
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