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On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred /
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 demonstrat...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersy :
Princeton University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (152 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781400841882 |