325971757

On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred [Elektronische Ressource]

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012

175 p.

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978-0-691-11922-9

NY 8000

 

f Online-Publikation  Judentum  Identität  Assimilation, Soziologie  Antisemitismus  Selbsthass  Deutschland  Haskala  Lessing, Theodor, 1872-1933 

 

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978-1-400-84188-2

Today, the term ""Jewish self-hatred"" often denotes a treasonous brand of Jewish self-loathing, and is frequently used as a smear, such as when it is applied to politically moderate Jews who are critical of Israel. In On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred, Paul Reitter demonstrates that the concept of Jewish self-hatred once had decidedly positive connotations. He traces the genesis of the term to Anton Kuh, a Viennese-Jewish journalist who coined it in the aftermath of World War I, and shows how the German-Jewish philosopher Theodor Lessing came, in 1930, to write a book that popula...