Antisemitism and Philosemitism in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries

This book of essays provides a significant reappraisal of discussions of antisemitism and philosemitism. An outstanding group of contributors from political theory, film, English, gender studies, and history demonstrates that analysis of philosemitic attitudes is as crucial to the history of representations of Jews and Jewish culture as are investigations of antisemitism. The topics include F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby", Hannah Arendt's politics, self-help guides such as "Boy Vey! The Shiksa's Guide to Dating Jewish Men", and contemporary cinema.This pathbreaking book shows the necessity of studying philosemitism as a critical manifestation of antisemitism and as a principle way that Jews have been and still are set apart from non-Jews. These essays will enable us to rethink historical debates surrounding the 'Jewish question'. Phyllis Lassner teaches Holocaust Studies, Gender Studies, and Writing at Northwestern University. Lara Trubowitz is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa.

ISBN 0874130298   Pages 248 ISBN13 9780874130294 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Associated University Presses   Weight (grammes) 544 Imprint University of Delaware Press   Published in Cranbury Format Hardback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 15 Nov 2008   Width (mm) 157 Library of Congress 2007052625   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY 305.8924   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		Introduction by Phyllis Lassner and Lara Trubowitz		7
Pt. I		Rethinking Philosemitism and Antisemitism: Theoretical Perspectives in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
		Between Philosemitism and Antisemitism: The Frankfurt School's Anti-Antisemitism by Jonathan Judaken		23
		"Killing Me Softly": Racial Ambivalence in Jean-Paul Sartre's Reflexions sur la question juive by Max Silverman		47
		From Antisemitism to "the Right to Have Rights": The Jewish Roots of Hannah Arendt's Cosmopolitanism by Seyla Benhabib and Raluca Eddon		63
		Points of Conflict: Cultural Values in "Green" and "Racial" Antisemitism by Sander L. Gilman		81
Pt. II		Reimagining Philosemitism and Antisemitism: Cultural Artifacts in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
		Educating for a Jewish Gaze: The Close Doubling of Antisemitism and Philosemitism in Sandra Goldbacher's The Governess by Helene Meyers		103
		Esther Kahn: Antisemitism and Philosemitism at the Turns of Two Centuries by Margaret D. Stetz		119
		"May Jews Go To College?": Fictions of Jewishness in the 1920s by Lisa Marcus		138
		Antisemitism without Jews: Left Behind in the American Heartland by Jonathan Freedman		154
		The Urban Geography of English Antisemitism and Assimilation: A Case Study by Kristin Bluemel		175
		Lovin' Me, Lovin' Jew: Gender, Intermarriage, and Metaphor by Sara R. Horowitz		196
		Exile and Jewish Identity: Marjorie Agosin and Urban Diasporic Possibility by Murray Baumgarten		217
		Notes on Contributors		234
		Index		237

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