"In April 1945, Jean Améry was liberated from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. A Jewish and political prisoner, he had been brutally tortured by the Nazis, and had also survived both Auschwitz and other infamous camps. His experiences during the Holocaust were made famous b…
by Wistrich, Robert S., (Robert Solomon), Thames Television
fromAnti-semitism
Discusses the views of European intellectuals, Jews and non-Jews, on the assimilability and inassimilability ("indigestibility") of the Jews and Jewish experience (particularly the Shoah), and who are intent on universalizing the Jewish experience. Relates particularly to the vi…
A history of antisemitism, written to accompany the Thames Television series "The Longest Hatred" (1991). Surveys the evolution in antiquity from pagan hostility toward Jews to Christian anti-Judaism, and the latter's overwhelming influence on modern antisemitism. Mentions the a…
Présente l'histoire de l'antisémitisme russe, notamment la persécution des Juifs sous Staline. Celle-ci trouve son point d'orgue dans les années précédant la mort du chef du Kremlin, avec le complot des médecins du Kremlin, juifs pour la plupart, accusés d'avoir voulu assassiner…
"By examining the years immediately following World War II, Franklin Bialystok shows that Canadian Jews were not psychologically equipped to comprehend the enormity of the Holocaust. Unable to grasp the extent of the atrocities that had occurred in a world that was not theirs, C…
"By examining the years immediately following World War II, Franklin Bialystok shows that Canadian Jews were not psychologically equipped to comprehend the enormity of the Holocaust. Unable to grasp the extent of the atrocities that had occurred in a world that was not theirs, C…
"In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt sought to provide a historical account of the forces that crystallized into totalitarianism: The ebb and flow of nineteenth-century anti-Semitism (she deemed the Dreyfus Affair a dress rehearsal for the Final Solution) and the ri…
