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Inside the Antisemitic Mind
Antisemitism never disappeared in Europe. In fact, there is substantial evidence that it is again on the rise, manifest in violent acts against Jews in some quarters, but more commonly noticeable in everyday discourse in mainstream European society. This innovative empirical study examines written examples of antisemitism in contemporary Germany. It demonstrates that hostility against Jews is not just a right-wing phenomenon or a phenomenon among the uneducated, but is manifest among all social classes, including intellectuals. Drawing on 14,000 letters and e-mails sent between 2002 and 2012 to the Central Council of Jews in Germany and to the Israeli embassy in Berlin, as well as communications sent between 2010 and 2011 to Israeli embassies in Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, England, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Spain, this volume shows how language plays a crucial role in activating and re-activating antisemitism. In addition, the authors investigate the role of emotions in antisemitic argumentation patterns and analyze Òanti-IsraelismÓ as the dominant form of contemporary hatred of Jews.
Confronting Antisemitism from Perspectives of Philosophy and Social Sciences
The five volumes provide a compendium of the history of and discourse about antisemitism - both as a unique cultural and religious category. Antisemitic stereotypes function as religious symbols that express and transmit a belief system of Jew-hatred, which are stored in the cultural and religious memories of the Western and Muslim worlds. This volume explores the phenomenon from the perspectives of Philosophy and Social Sciences.
Contending with Antisemitism in a Rapidly Changing Political Climate
Today's highly fraught historical moment brings a resurgence of antisemitism. Antisemitic incidents of all kinds are on the rise across the world, including hate speech, the spread of neo-Nazi graffiti and other forms of verbal and written threats, the defacement of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries, and acts of murderous terror. Contending with Antisemitism in a Rapidly Changing Political Climate is an edited collection of 18 essays that address antisemitism in its new and resurgent forms. Against a backdrop of concerning political developments such as rising nationalism and illiberalism on the right, new forms of intolerance and anti-liberal movements on the left, and militant deeds and demands by Islamic extremists, the contributors to this timely and necessary volume seek to better understand and effectively contend with today's antisemitism.
Countering Contemporary Antisemitism in Britain
In Countering Contemporary Antisemitism in Britain, Sarah Cardaun presents a critical analysis of responses towards anti-Jewish prejudice in the UK and examines how government and civil society have attempted to combat both old and new forms of this age-old hatred in Britain.
That Sinking Feeling
Emotions, especially those of impoverished migrant families, have long been underrepresented in German social and cultural studies. That Sinking Feeling raises the visibility of the emotional dimensions of exclusion processes and locates students in current social transformations. Drawing from a year of ethnographic fieldwork with grade ten students, Stefan Wellgraf’s study on an array of both classic emotions and affectively charged phenomena reveals a culture of devaluation and self-assertion of the youthful, post-migrant urban underclass in neoliberal times.
Being Jewish in 21st-Century Germany
An unexpected immigration wave of Jews from the former Soviet Union mostly in the 1990s has stabilized and enlarged Jewish life in Germany. Jewish kindergartens and schools were opened, and Jewish museums, theaters, and festivals are attracting a wide audience. No doubt: Jews will continue to live in Germany. At the same time, Jewish life has undergone an impressing transformation in the second half of the 20th century– from rejection to acceptance, but not without disillusionments and heated debates. And while the ‘new Jews of Germany,’ 90 percent of them of Eastern European background, are already considered an important factor of the contemporary Jewish diaspora, they still grapple with the shadow of the Holocaust, with internal cultural clashes and with difficulties in shaping a new collective identity. What does it mean to live a Jewish life in present-day Germany? How are Jewish thoughts, feelings, and practices reflected in contemporary arts, literature, and movies? What will remain of the former German Jewish cultural heritage? Who are the new Jewish elites, and how successful is the fight against anti-Semitism? This volume offers some answers.
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the Course of History: Exchange and Conflicts
Das Verhältnis zwischen Judentum, Christentum und Islam unterlag im Laufe der Geschichte vielfältigen Veränderungen. Welche Konflikte gab es, welche Phasen und Formen von Austausch und Kooperation standen dem gegenüber? Der Band ist das Ergebnis einer Tagung aus dem Jahr 2009. Wissenschaftler aus sechs Ländern präsentieren nun die Ergebnisse. Die Sektionen behandeln die "Gegenseitige Wahrnehmung vor dem 1. Weltkrieg", "Kultur, Bildung, Fremdwahrnehmung" seit 1945, "Austausch und Konflikte" von der Frühen Neuzeit bis ins 20. Jahrhundert, das "Rechtsverständnis", "Recht und Wirtschaft", die "Religionsgelehrsamkeit" sowie "gesellschaftliche Integration und Bewahrung der Identität". Mit...
Antisemitismus unter ,,muslimischen Jugendlichen"
In seiner empirisch fundierten Studie untersucht Stefan E. Hößl Zusammenhänge zwischen Antisemitismus und Religiösem bei Jugendlichen, die sich als Musliminnen und Muslime definieren. Der Autor lässt eine rekonstruktive Analysehaltung zum Tragen kommen und fragt dabei, inwiefern Religiöses – fernab einer bloßen religiösen Selbstverortung der Jugendlichen – in ihrem Denken und Wahrnehmen einen Niederschlag findet. Auf der Basis der Auswertung qualitativ-narrativer und Leitfaden-Interviews arbeitet er zwei kontrastierende Konstellationen heraus. Aus seinen Ergebnissen leitet der Autor Reflexionen für die antisemitismuskritische Bildungsarbeit ab.
Sorgende Arrangements
Familiale Gewalt gegen und Vernachlässigung von Kindern und Jugendlichen ist gegenwärtig verstärkt im Blick der öffentlichen, politischen und fachlichen Aufmerksamkeit. Daher gewinnen die Verständigungsprozesse über den Auftrag, den die für den Kinderschutz verantwortlichen Institutionen zu realisieren haben, an Relevanz. Im Rahmen der vom Forschungsprojekt »Familiale Gewalt: Brüche und Unsicherheiten in der sozialpädagogischen Praxis (UsoPrax)« ausgerichteten Fachtagung wurden insbesondere Handlungsformen von Professionellen im Allgemeinen Sozialen Dienst bei der Verdachtsabklärung von Hinweisen auf Kindeswohlgefährdung sowie die Kooperation zwischen freien und öffentlichen Trägern in diesen Fällen beleuchtet. Die hier publizierten Beiträge der Fachtagung diskutieren die professionellen Dynamiken, Kulturen und strukturellen Bedingungen der Praxen, die Kinder vor Gewalt schützen sollen.
Stifled Progress – International Perspectives on Social Work and Social Policy in the Era of Right-Wing Populism
Social work as a democratically constituted profession committed to human rights is currently facing cross-border encroachments and attacks by right-wing populist movements and governments. With the Bundestag elections in September 2017, the question of the extent to which right-wing populist forces succeed in influencing the discourse with xenophobic and nationalist arguments arises in Germany, too. The authors examine how social work can respond effectively to nationalism, exclusion, de-solidarization and a basic skepticism about science and position itself against this background. The book explores different conditions in Germany, France, Poland, Russia and the US.
