| Description |
x, 309 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Trial and Death of Jesus: The Myth of "Christ Killers" and the "Criminal People" -- 2. Ritual Murderers: Christian Blood and Jewish Matzohs -- 3. The Diabolization of Jews: Demons, Conspirators, and Race Defilers -- 4. Homo Judaicus Economicus: The Jew as Shylock, Parasite, and Plutocrat -- 5. Denying the Holocaust: A Neo-Nazi Mythology -- 6. Antisemitic Myths Blackwashed: The Nation of Islam Inherits a Devil -- App. I. Jewish-Muslim Relations in History -- App. II. Canada's Attempts to Curb Ernst Zundel's Antisemitic Actions as a Public Danger |
| Summary |
"In this provocative book, historians Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer analyze the lies, misperceptions, and myths about Jews and Judaism that antisemites have propagated throughout the centuries. Beginning with antiquity, and continuing into the present day, the authors explore the irrational fabrications that have led to numerous acts of violence and hatred against Jews. The book examines ancient and medieval myths central to the history of antisemitism: Jews as "Christ-killers," instruments of Satan, and ritual murderers of Christian children. It also explores the scapegoating of Jews in the modern world as conspirators bent on world domination; extortionists who manufactured the Holocaust as a hoax designed to gain reparation payments from Germany; and the leaders of the slave trade that put Africa in chains |
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No other book has focused its attention exclusively on a thematic discussion of historic and contemporary antisemitic myths, covering such an expansive scope of time, and allowing for such a painstaking level of exemplification. Antisemitism is an essential book that will serve as a corrective to bigotry, stereotype, and historical distortion."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Mainly lectures and addresses which have already appeared in print but are here altered and corrected where necessary |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Anti-Jewish propaganda -- History.
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Antisemitism -- History.
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Blood accusation.
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Christianity and antisemitism.
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Holocaust denial.
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Chemists -- Biography.
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Chemistry -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Author |
Schweitzer, Frederick M.
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| LC no. |
02022035 |
| ISBN |
0312165617 |
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