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The Resistible Rise of Antisemitism - Exemplary Cases from Russia, Ukraine, and Poland (Paperback)
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The Resistible Rise of Antisemitism - Exemplary Cases from Russia, Ukraine, and Poland (Paperback)
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Antisemitism emerged toward the end of the nineteenth century as a
powerful political movement with broad popular appeal. It promoted
a vision of the world in which a closely-knit tribe called "the
Jews" conspired to dominate the globe through control of
international finance at the highest levels of commerce and money
lending in the towns and villages. This tribe at the same time
maneuvered to destroy the very capitalist system it was said to
control through its devotion to the cause of revolution. It is easy
to draw a straight line from this turn-of-the-century paranoid
thinking to the murderous delusions of twentieth-century fascism.
Yet the line was not straight. Antisemitism as a political weapon
did not stand unchallenged, even in Eastern Europe, where its
consequences were particularly dire. In this region, Jewish leaders
mobilized across national borders and in alliance with non-Jewish
public figures on behalf of Jewish rights and in opposition to
anti-Jewish violence. Antisemites were called to account and forced
on the defensive. In Imperial and then Soviet Russia, in newly
emerging Poland, and in aspiring Ukraine--notorious in the West as
antisemitic hotbeds--antisemitism was sometimes a moral and
political liability. These intriguing essays explore the reasons
why, and they offer lessons from surprising places on how we can
continue to fight antisemitism in our times.
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