RT Book
T1 Tears of history: the rise of political antisemitism in the United States
T2 European perspectives a series in social thought and cultural criticism
A1 Birnbaum, Pierre 1940-
A2 Santos Da Silva, Karen
LA English
PP New York
PB Columbia University Press
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1828170143
AB "Salo Baron was born in 1895 under the Habsburg empire and became one of the greatest historians of Judaism. He testified at the Eichmann trial. Baron was invited to teach in New York in 1926. When he got here he discovered what he thought was the American exception: as a new society, the United States would have not experienced any persecutions of Jews. That would alone refute--in his own words--"a lachrymose version of history," the story that lays out the destiny of Judaism as an uninterrupted list of persecutions and massacres. At most, he thought, American Jews would meet with prejudice or social barriers, but never antisemitism theorized as a political ideology. And yet, in 1913, in Atlanta, there was the case of Leo Frank: the lynching of a Jew accused of the ritual murder of a young woman, even though the charges had been dropped. It was the first American instance of hate-driven antisemitism. Some years later, Roosevelt's New Deal radically transformed the destiny of American Jews. For the first time powerful figures such as Henry Morgenthau and Louis Brandeis came to the fore, and Jews experienced a newfound prominence. Antisemites in America declared that Jews, having taken over the government, would destroy America's identity. During the period from Roosevelt to Obama, antisemitism increased and was clearly seen recently in the neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville in 2017 and in the Tree of Life Synagogue mass shooting in Pittsburgh in 2018. Antisemitic violence continues to grow here. On January 6, 2021, the attempted coup against the Capitol saw an outpouring of violently antisemitic slogans. All of which begs the question: does this mean that the romantic view of American exceptionalism, sanctified by many historians of American Judaism, has been refuted once and for all? Is the idea of this place of exile, seen as a protective and exceptional "home," in fact an illusion? Should it also be considered as the return of a "lachrymose" history? This book seeks to explore the answers to these questions"
AB Pierre Birnbaum offers a timely reconsideration of the tear-stained pages of Jewish history and the persistence of antisemitism
NO "Les larmes de L'Histoire. De Kichinev à Pittsburgh. copyright © 2022 Editions Gallimard, Paris."
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
NO Zielgruppe: 5PGJ, Bezug zu Juden und jüdischen Gruppen
CN E184.33
SN 9780231209601
SN 9780231209618
K1 Jews : United States : Historiography
K1 Antisemitism : United States : History
K1 History / Jewish
K1 HISTORY / Social History
K1 Jewish Studies
K1 REL116000
K1 Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict
K1 Religiöse Intoleranz, Verfolgung und Konflikte
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
K1 Social & Cultural History
K1 Social discrimination & inequality
K1 Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
K1 Soziale Diskriminierung und Gleichbehandlung
K1 United States : Race relations : History
K1 Usa
K1 Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA
K1 Antisemitismus : USA : Geschichte : Juden : Judentum