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Volume 4 deals with events, legislative and administrative actions
of discrimination as well as affairs, scandals and controversies.
207 articles explain the motives, the backdrop and the consequences
of the manifestation of hatred against Jews and also examples of
prevention and resistance against it. The examples include the 19th
century antisemitism congresses, the Protocols of the Elders of
Zion, debates on the prohibition of kosher slaughter, the
conspiracy of Kremlin doctors, medieval vernacular sermons, the
Jenninger case, the Walser-Bubis debate and much more."
In the more than 330 articles in this fifth volume of the Handbook
of Anti-Semitism, over 140 authors examine the parties,
associations, government authorities, Church associations,
non-governmental organizations, informal groups, institutes, and
scientific and social societies in whose programs or practices
animosity against Jews played a part. Similarly, this volume also
contains descriptions of the organizations and collaborative
efforts that have sought to combat anti-Semitism.
The third volume covers terms, theories and ideologies of
anti-Semitism from A as in ? Abwehr (resistance) to Z as in
Zwangstaufe (forced baptism). In 150 articles 88 authors explain
terms and metaphors such as Aryan Acts, race defilers and
usurer-Jew as well as stereotypes like well poisoning, host
desecration and deicide . The volume also explores phenomena such
as redemptive anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial, and hostility
towards Jews in antiquity. Furthermore, the handbook extensively
discusses theories, research strategies and political contexts of
hostility towards Jews, e.g. leftist anti-Semitism, Christian
fundamentalism or Islamic anti-Semitism."
The 6th volume of this handbook provides information about
publishers, newspapers, and journals and also about the numerous
treatises, articles, and books that have figured in the history of
anti-Semitism, from the pamphlets of the 15th and 16th centuries to
the present day.
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