Stephen H. Norwood

Antisemitism and the American Far Left

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Produktbeschreibung

Stephen H. Norwood has written the first systematic study of the American far left's role in propagating and combating antisemitism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781107657007
• ISBN-10: 1107657008
• Artikelnr.: 39043945

Autorenporträt

Stephen H. Norwood (PhD, Columbia University) is Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of five books on American history, including The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower (Cambridge University Press, 2009), which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Studies. He was co-editor of the Encyclopedia of American Jewish History (2008, with Eunice G. Pollack), which won Booklist's Editor's Choice Award.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Promoting a socialism of fools: the new left's debt to the old left; 2.
American communists' tangled responses to antisemitism and nazism, 1920-39;
3. World War II: the limits of American far left concern for European
Jewry; 4. Assimilation abandoned: communist resistance to antisemitism and
celebration of Jewish culture in the immediate postwar period; 5. 'Two,
four, six, eight, we demand a Jewish state': American communist support for
partition and the Jewish war of liberation, 1947-8; 6. 'Fiends in human
form': taking conspiratorial antisemitism to a new level; 7. The Jewish
question discarded: far left hostility to Jews and Israel, 1956-73; 8.
Shaping the next generations: the persistence of far left antisemitism,
1973-2012.