Robert Michael

A Concise History of American Antisemitism

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Produktbeschreibung

A Concise History of American Antisemitism shows how Christianity's negative views of Jews pervaded American history from colonial times to the present. The book describes the European background to American anti-Semitism, then divides American history into time periods, and examines the anti-Semitic ideas, personalities, and literature in each period. Clear and forceful, A Concise History of American Antisemitism is an important work for undergraduate course use and for the general public interested in the roots of the current rash of anti-Semitism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780742543126
• ISBN-10: 0742543129
• Artikelnr.: 21851930

Autorenporträt

Robert Michael is professor emeritus of history at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth and Visiting Professor at Ringling School of Art and Design and Florida Gulf Coast University. His other books include: Dictionary of Anti-Semitism, An English Lexicon of the Language of the Third Reich, and The Holocaust: A Chronology and Documentary. He is working on a poetry collection and a novel.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Introduction: "The United
States Is Above All Things a Christian Nation" Chapter 4 "We Never Do Evil
So Completely and Cheerfully as When We Do It Out of Religious Conviction:"
European Antisemitism before the Founding of America Chapter 5 "The
Preservation of Christianity Is One of the Great and Leading Ends of
Government:" The Jews in the American Colonies and Early State History
Chapter 6 "Chock Full of Lies, Wickedness, and Blasphemy:" American
Attitudes toward Jews before the Civil War Chapter 7 "A People Whose Feet
Run to Evil:" American Antisemitism from the Civil War to the Turn of the
Century Chapter 8 "The Jews Reap More and More Dislike as They Better
Themselves:" American Responses to Jews from World War One to the Start of
World War Two Chapter 9 "The Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder
of the Jews:" America, the Jews, and the Holocaust from 1938 to 1945
Chapter 10 "Dangerous People:" A New Beginning? America and the Jews since
1945 Chapter 11 Appendix: Postwar Film