Antisemitism: A Reference Handbook by Jerome A. Chanes

Antisemitism: A Reference guide is the 1st reference paintings to offer an international survey of antisemitism that is going past its heritage to bare the roots and nature of antisemitism. Exploring how antisemitism has manifested itself in numerous international locations from pre-Christian instances to trendy ongoing Palestinian Intifada, which has triggered serious reactions in Arab and Muslim groups around the globe, this specific paintings strains the heritage of the hatred of Jews worldwide.Approximately 20 biographical sketches profile advocates of antisemitism similar to William Marr, who coined the time period "antisemitism," and competitors of antisemitism resembling St. Anselm and Martin Luther King. during this critical but obtainable quantity, scholars, students, govt officers, and diplomats will notice the solutions to such perplexing questions as "What is antisemitism?" and "How does antisemitism relate to racism and to staff prejudice in general?"

The Mexican-American struggle (1846-1848) discovered americans on new terrain. A republic based at the precept of armed security of freedom was once now going to warfare on behalf of occur future, looking to overcome an strange country and other people. via an exam of rank-and-file infantrymen, Paul Foos sheds new mild at the struggle and its impression on attitudes towards different races and nationalities that stood within the method of yank expansionism.

An incredible contribution to our figuring out of slavery within the early republic, bring Us from Evil illuminates the white South's twisted and tortured efforts to justify slavery, concentrating on the interval from the drafting of the federal structure in 1787 in the course of the age of Jackson. Drawing seriously on fundamental assets, together with newspapers, executive files, legislative documents, pamphlets, and speeches, Lacy Ford recaptures the numerous and occasionally contradictory rules and attitudes held through teams of white southerners as they debated the slavery query.

Alexandria was a second Athens. Jewish refusal to accept common religious and social standards was resented by the strongly Hellenized indigenous Egyptian population. Alexandria became the chief center of recognizable antisemitism in the ancient world. The main popularizer of antisemitic themes was the thirdcentury Egyptian priest and historian Manetho. Manetho taught that Jews were originally a group of Egyptian lepers who, when expelled from Egypt, became a tribe of misanthropic wanderers. Manetho, as an official historian, had credibility in Alexandria.

Thus, the negative picture of the Jew as homeless wanderer—society’s castoff—did not begin with the development of Christian theology. 1 In the third century BCE there 25 26 Historical Narrative and Chronology was a sizable Jewish community in Egypt, centered in Alexandria. Egypt indeed had become the heart of the Diaspora; it was also the center of Hellenization. Alexandria was a second Athens. Jewish refusal to accept common religious and social standards was resented by the strongly Hellenized indigenous Egyptian population.