This dissertation combines affect, race, history and colonial studies to examine the process of Christian othering of Jews in Europe since the Protestant Reformation, with a focus on the narrative of honor that was used to depict European Jews as lacking it. While the ways Jews …
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This research set to read the reign of the Modjadji Rain Queens from a gender-critical lens. The setting of their dynasty on the one hand in a South African democratic space with an appraisal of women’s rights and on the other in a rural traditionalist setting where women have a…
Most historians regard the 1920s as a period of increasing anti-Semitism in the United States. In response to growing anti-Semitism, religious liberals created institutions to promote good will between Jews and Christians. The goodwill movement, which culminated in the National …
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 …
This dissertation analyzes American Jewish identity and assimilation practices through Warner Bros. films produced between 1918 and 1941. It argues that Warner Bros. films not only reflected the Warner brothers? (Harry, Abe, Sam and Jack) individual identity politics, Warner Bro…
Hebrew Esther tells the story of a woman who assumes responsibility to save her people from attempted genocide. Old Greek and Alpha Text Esther are examples of Jewish apologetic and polemic literature that addressed Greek and Latin perceptions of Jewish xenophobia and misanthrop…
The effects of aversive anti-Semitism on selection decisions regarding Jewish employees in the U.S. were studied. The extant literature on aversive racism, prejudice and stereotyping, and job discrimination provided a backdrop for the present study. Participants read transcripts…
Cannibalism is the ultimate breaking of taboos—what Peter Hulme has called “the mark of unregenerate savagery.” Yet accounts of this topos of horror, mythological, historical and contemporary, were particularly popular in Europe during the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance…
The history of twentieth-century immigration by the African and Caribbean Diasporas to Britain is a history of mental distress. This thesis focusses on the social elements—conditioned by racism, gender inequities, and colonialism—that cause mental distress in the protagonists of…
This doctoral study explores the lives of adult Jewish-Argentinian immigrants to Israel, who as children experienced trauma/stress as a result of the military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). My conceptual framework draws upon trauma theory and Simich and Beiser’s (2011) p…
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 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…
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…
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 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,…