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Blaming the Jews: Politics and Delusion
Contributor(s): Harrison, Bernard (Author)
ISBN: 0253049911     ISBN-13: 9780253049919
Publisher: Indiana University Press
OUR PRICE:   $37.62  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
- Social Science | Jewish Studies
Dewey: 305.892
LCCN: 2020007441
Physical Information: 1.12" H x 6" W x 9" (1.61 lbs) 504 pages
 
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In recent years Western countries have seen a proliferation of antisemitic material in social media, and attacks on Jews such as that on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018. Much of this has stemmed, not from personal hostility to Jews on the part of this or that individual, but from a resurgence in groups at both ends of politics of the ancient delusion that the Jews collectively dominate world affairs and lie at the root of all the world's evils.

In Blaming the Jews author Bernard Harrison, offers a new and unique analysis of this second and far more dangerous form of antisemitism and its persistence as a cultural phenomenon. Questioning the assumption that antisemitism affects or targets only Jews, he demonstrates that, allowed to go unrecognised or unchecked, antisemitism is potentially damaging to us all.

In a world where rhetoric is fashioned on stereotypes and driven by political ideology, Harrison argues it is our responsibility to be vigilant in exposing the delusions of antisemitism and their consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike.