"This volume features powerful essays by Edward Alexander on the phenomenon of anti-Zionism on the part of the Jewish intelligentsia. It also analyses the explosive growth of traditional anti-Semitism, especially in Europe, among intellectuals and Muslims. Alexander notes that a…
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Jewish Self-Hatred -- 2 Disraeli and Marx: Stammgenosse? -- 3 Liberalism and Zionism -- 4 What the Holocaust Does Not Teach -- 5 Why Jews Must Behave Better than Everybody Els…
Alexander begins with an examination of the origins of Jewish self-hatred in nineteenth-century Europe. He then explores the mindset of disaffected Jews in reacting, or failing to react, to the two events that shape modern Jewry: the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Is…
"The essays in this book seek to understand and throw back the assault on Israel led by such Jewish liberals and radicals as Tony Judt, Noam Chomsky, George Steiner, Daniel Boyarin, Marc Ellis, Israel Shahak, and many others. Its writers demonstrate that the foundation of the st…
"The essays in this book seek to understand and throw back the assault on Israel led by such Jewish liberals and radicals as Tony Judt, Noam Chomsky, George Steiner, Daniel Boyarin, Marc Ellis, Israel Shahak, and many others. Its writers demonstrate that the foundation of the st…
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editorial Practices -- Introduction -- 1. Reading Minds and Intentions: The 1940s -- 2. Categories of Existence: The 1950s -- 3. A Mind Grappling in a New Way: The 1960s -- 4. The Kultur-Kampf over Literary Studies: The 1970s -- 5. Gains a…
