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Tag Archives: anti-Semitism
(Still Lachrymose) The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom (Robert Chazan)
Invaluable for students of Jews and Jewish Studies is the focus Robert Chazan puts on Christians and Christendom in this neat little survey. The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom 1000-1500 is maybe the best one-stop-shop historical study explaining what happened … Continue reading
Medieval Anti-Jewish Anti-Semitism (Source Reader)
Not for a quick read, this is a long working-post with primary source material in English translation for general interest and for use in the classroom. The original impetus for posting this was for my students in a course at … Continue reading
(Re-Alignments) Glory to Ukraine (Anti-Semitism & Liberal Democracy)
Glory to Ukraine is the old and heavy national slogan of Ukrainian independence. It is fraught with the heavy load of ethno-nationalism and violent anti-Semitism. For a little historical background, see this item here that I found online and here … Continue reading
What Trypho Said (Justin Martyr)
Here I reconstruct and recommend the figure of Trypho, how he and Justin Martyr met purportedly during the time of the Bar Kochba Revolt, what Justin Martyr allowed him to say in Dialogue with Trypho, and how they part ways … Continue reading
(Civic Judaism) You Know How The Jews Stick Together (Cicero Pro Flacco)
The Jews of ancient Rome were probably a pretty tough group of people. More essential than belief in God, Cicero was onto something when he wrote about them, that Jews stick together. His comment in Pro Flacco is arguably anti-Jewish. … Continue reading
anti-Judaism & anti-Semitism (Syllabus)
ANTI-JUDAISM & ANTI-SEMITISM REL/JSP 200 Spring 2022 T/Th 12:30-1:50 Shaffer Art Building 121 Zachary Braiterman office: HL 509 ZOOM office hours: W 11:00-12:00 or by appointment zbraiter@syr.edu Examines anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism as a social form, anti-Jewish and anti-Semitic tropes and … Continue reading
(Association for Jewish Studies) Antisemitism & Academic Freedom (Working Report)
A Working Report from the AJS Task Force on Antisemitism and Academic Freedom Guidelines for Confronting Antisemitism and Protecting Academic Freedom Introduction The Association for Jewish Studies, the largest learned society and professional organization representing Jewish studies scholars worldwide, assembled … Continue reading
Heidegger and World Judaism (Black Notebooks)
[Only the first 3 volumes of “Ponderings” are out in English. Not a lot on Jews and Judaism. The appearance of “Jewish” is garden variety anti-Semitism. The appearance of the word “Judaism” indicates an (anti)metaphysical anti-Semitism that forms, philosophically, a … Continue reading
(In Public Life) Nazis At The Moment
It’s not one thing or another, but the way single incidents revolving around Nazis, swastikas, and the Holocaust aggregate in a relatively compressed moment in time. This past week was a case in point. A school board takes Maus off … Continue reading
Key Terms Towards a Definition of Antisemitism (Gavin Langmuir)
While I do not think they pan out in as neat a historiographical way as he thought, these finely tuned typological distinctions offered by Gavin Langmuir suss out assertions of in-group animus for outgroups. Langmuir makes these distinctions about intergroup … Continue reading