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From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel
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by Robert S. Wistrich
Robert S. Wistrich
From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel
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by Robert S. Wistrich
Robert S. Wistrich
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From Ambivalence to Betrayal is the first study to explore the transformation in attitudes on the Left toward the Jews, Zionism, and Israel since the origins of European socialism in the 1840s until the present. This pathbreaking synthesis reveals a striking continuity in negative stereotypes of Jews, contempt for Judaism, and negation of Jewish national self-determination from the days of Karl Marx to the current left-wing intellectual assault on Israel. World-renowned expert on the history of antisemitism Robert S. Wistrich provides not only a powerful analysis of how and why the Left emerged as a spearhead of anti-Israel sentiment but also new insights into the wider involvement of Jews in radical movements.
There are fascinating portraits of Marx, Moses Hess, Bernard Lazare, Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, and other Jewish intellectuals, alongside analyses of the darker face of socialist and Communist antisemitism. The closing section eloquently exposes the degeneration of leftist anti-Zionist critiques into a novel form of "anti-racist" racism.
Robert S. Wistrich is the Neuburger Professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. He is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad (2010) and Laboratory for World Destruction: Germans and Jews in Central Europe (Nebraska, 2007).
There are fascinating portraits of Marx, Moses Hess, Bernard Lazare, Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, and other Jewish intellectuals, alongside analyses of the darker face of socialist and Communist antisemitism. The closing section eloquently exposes the degeneration of leftist anti-Zionist critiques into a novel form of "anti-racist" racism.
Robert S. Wistrich is the Neuburger Professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. He is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad (2010) and Laboratory for World Destruction: Germans and Jews in Central Europe (Nebraska, 2007).
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780803240766 |
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| Publisher: | Nebraska |
| Publication date: | 06/01/2012 |
| Series: | Studies in Antisemitism |
| Pages: | 648 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 2.00(d) |
About the Author
Robert S. Wistrich (1945–2015) was the Neuburger Professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. He is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad (2010) and Laboratory for World Destruction: Germans and Jews in Central Europe (Nebraska, 2007).
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Jews, Zion, and Revolution
THE ANTISEMITIC QUESTION
1. The Racist Temptation in the Labor Movement
2. Karl Marx, Moses Hess, and Jewish Emancipation
3. German Social Democrats on the Völkisch Movement
4. The "Jewish Question" from Engels to Bernstein
5. Anti-Capitalism or Antisemitism? The Enigma of Franz Mehring
6. Socialists and Antisemites in Europe before 1914
NATIONALISM AND INTERNATIONALISM
7. Bernard Lazare: Anarchist, Dreyfusard, and Revolutionary Jew
8. Social Democracy and Judeophobia in Imperial Vienna
9. The Austro-Marxist Critique of Jewish Nationalism
10. Karl Kautsky and the Controversy over Zion
11. The Internationalism of Rosa Luxemburg
12. Leon Trotsky—A Bolshevik Tragedy
ANTI-ZIONIST MYTHOLOGIES
13. From Lenin to the Soviet Black Hundreds
14. The Holocaust Inversion of the Left
15. Bruno Kreisky, Israel, and the Palestinian Question
16. Anti-Zionist Myths on the Contemporary Left
17. Great Britain: A Suitable Case for Treatment?
18. The Marxist-Islamist Alliance
Archival Sources and Selected Bibliography
Index
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