Anti-semitism

Anti-Semitism is resurgent throughout much of the world. A new theoretical model of anti-Semitism is presented and tested in three experiments. The New Anti-Semitism Israel (NASI) model proposes that mortality salience increases anti-Semitism and that anti-Semitism often manifes…

This thesis demonstrates how, in Renaissance Florence, the legend of the Inventio crucis (The Discovery of the Cross) not only provided the basic plot line for several sacred plays, but also served the contemporary political establishment, that is, the ruling Medici family. The …

This project emerges out of the rich data derived from ethnographic interviews conducted with 20 American Jews during 2007. It is an effort to locate the compromises and conflicted understandings in which Jews articulate their own experiences, memories and identities. It is also…

This dissertation investigates the relationship between Hollywood's seemingly overnight development into the nation's first mass culture industry and women's roles as industry workers, fans, and social critics in shaping and defining the sexual and racial politics of postwar Ame…

My dissertation describes the social and economic history of Jews in Kiev from the tenth century to the February 1917 Revolution. At the turn of the twentieth century the Kiev Jewish community was one of the largest and wealthiest in the Russian Empire. According to the all-Russ…

This study seeks to answer the question, "Is the epistle to the Hebrews anti-Semitic, anti-Judaic or supersessionist?" The question poses many challenges in light of the continuity and discontinuity found in the epistle. The first three chapters of the dissertation set the stage…

This study on the mainline Protestant portrayal of Jews and Judaism in religious education materials is a "next step" in the fifty-year tradition of content analysis in the field. The research provides a rationale for further work in the area through examination of resources sin…

This dissertation shows that the decades after German unification were characterized not just by a few sensational antisemitic trials, but by a constant drumbeat of large and small cases involving public discussion of the "Jewish Question." Based primarily on newspaper accounts,…

In March 1968 tens of thousands of students across Poland left their classrooms to protest against the communist regime. The Polish United Workers' Party (Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza, or PUWP), which had been in power for two decades, responded by publicly accusing the …

The second century parting of the ways between rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity resulted in a fundamental breach, the effects of which have reverberated to the present day. Christians separated from the Jewish roots of their faith will suffer from a theological identity c…