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Antisemitism - The Generic Hatred - Essays in Memory of Simon Wiesenthal (Hardcover, New)
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Antisemitism - The Generic Hatred - Essays in Memory of Simon Wiesenthal (Hardcover, New)
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Dedicated to the memory of the 'conscience of the Holocaust', Simon
Wiesenthal - to whom it offers a number of personal tributes - this
book brings together essays by a wide variety of authors on
antisemitism and related forms of intolerance, racism, and
xenophobia. Starting from the idea that antisemitism constitutes a
paradigm case of collective and individual hatred, the book
examines some of the reasons why it has prospered over the ages and
persists in our time, even after well-nigh universal condemnation
of the Holocaust. Some authors see it as a virus, always ready to
develop and spread wherever Jewish difference is resented. Others
emphasize that the antisemitic myths are not grounded in reality
but depend rather on a fabrication, an imagined being to whom every
kind of vice and perversion can be attributed. Jews, Gypsies,
Kurds, Armenians, Tutsis they can all be made to fit the bill.
Simon Wiesenthal believed not in vengeance but in justice for the
victims and played a pre-e
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