Resurgent Antisemitism

Alvin H. Rosenfeld holds the Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies and is Professor of English and Founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism at Indiana University Bloomington. He is author of A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature, Imagining Hitler, and The End of the Holocaust, all published by IU Press.

The editor has culled articles from outstanding, thorough and sophisticated scholars representing diverse disciplines. The result is a brilliantly nuanced geographical and ideological atlas which analyzes the coordinates of antisemitism in its malevolent tentacles all over the world. The breadth of the inquiry is astonishing . . .(Jewish Post & Opinion) The present collection lays bare the double-think, identifies modern libels, and counters them with historical knowledge; it maps paths for further retrieval of such knowledge. It grants its audience a fuller understanding of the resurgent antisemitism not only as a social but also as an intellectual phenomenon, a nexus of different strands of cultural history.(Modern Judaism) The authors make their case for paying closer attention to contemporary expressions of antisemitism. Interested academic and general readers will want to do so through this book.(Library Journal) This new book . . . comes as a bright flare of warning about the renewal of the ancient hatred of Jews . . . Adolf Hitler nearly succeeded in wiping out European Jewry. Today his goal has gone global.(National Catholic Reporter) Despite its more than 500 pages, the book's many subjects and perspectives ensure it never ceases to be interesting, and it does an outstanding job of describing the chilling diversity of anti-Semitism today.(ForeWord Reviews) More than an excellent survey, Resurgent Antisemitism heralds the emergence of an international study of anti-Semitism, replete with both grand established figures and emerging young stars.(Brandeis Brief) Resurgent Antisemitism is an important study and includes numerous interesting voices, not merely academics, but also activists and writers.(Jerusalem Post Magazine) Resurgent Antisemitism is a key text that helps to frame the intellectual debates now developing in the field of Antisemitism Studies and as such it has the potential to help move the field forward intellectually, something which is indeed crucial at this moment in time.(Scholars for Peace in the Middle East) Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives helps to frame the debates now current in the field of Antisemitism Studies. As such, the book moves the field forward at a crucial time in its development.(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives is a key text that helps to frame the intellectual debates now developing in the field of Antisemitism Studies and as such it has the potential to help move the field forward intellectually, something which is indeed crucial at this moment in time.(Israel Book Review) This book makes valuable contributions to the academic and extra-academic efforts to sort out what antisemitism is and why it continues to occur.- Sol Goldberg - University of Toronto (Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies)

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction Alvin H. Rosenfeld1 Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and the Rhetorical Manipulation of Reality Bernard Harrison 2 Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism as a Moral Question Elhanan Yakira 3 Manisfestations of Antisemitism in British Cultural and Intellectual Life Paul Bogdanor 4 Between Old and New Antisemitism: The Image of Jews in Present-day Spain Alejandro Baer 5 Antisemitism Redux: On Literary and Theoretical Perversions Bruno Chaouat 6 Anti-Zionism and the Resurgence of Antisemitism in Norway Eirik Eiglad 7 Antisemitism Redivivus: The Rising Ghosts of a Calamitous Inheritance in Hungary and Romania Szilvia Peremiczky 8 Comparative and Competitive Victimization in the Post-Communist Sphere Zvi Gitelman 9 The Catholic Church, Radio Maryja, and the Question of Antisemitism in Poland Anna Sommer Schneider 10 Antisemitism among Young European Muslims Gunther Jikeli 11 The Banalisation of Hate: Antisemitism in Contemporary Turkey Rifat Bali 12 Antisemitism's Permutations in the Islamic Republic of Iran Jamsheed Choksy 13 The Israeli Scene – Political Criticism and the Politics of Anti-Zionism Ilan Avisar 14 The Roots of Antisemitism in the Middle East: New Debates Matthias Küntzel 15 Anti-Zionist Connections: Communism, Radical Islam, and the Left Robert Wistrich 16 Present-day Antisemitism and the Centrality of the Jewish Alibi Emanuele Ottolenghi 17 Holocaust Denial and the Image of the Jew or: "They Boycott Auschwitz as an Israeli Product" Dina Porat 18 Identity Politics, the Pursuit of Social Justice, and the Rise of Campus Antisemitism: A Case Study Tammi Rossman-Benjamin 19 The End of the Holocaust and the Beginnings of a New Antisemitism Alvin Rosenfeld List of contributors Index