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.
General
| Imprint: |
Columbia University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism |
| Release date: |
July 2023 |
| Authors: |
Pierre Birnbaum
(Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology)
|
| Translators: |
Karen Santos da Silva
(Lecturer of French Language and Lit)
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| Dimensions: |
216 x 140mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
248 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-231-20960-1 |
| Subtitles: |
French
|
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-231-20960-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780231209601 |
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