Comprehending and Confronting Antisemitism

A Multi-Faceted Approach

Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat, Lawrence H. Schiffman

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9783110618594
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Storia
• Subtopic: Teologia ebraica

This volume provides 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, migrating freely between Christian, Muslim and other religious symbolic systems.

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• Greetings
• I. Introduction to Combating Antisemitism
• General Introduction “An End to Antisemitism!”
• Executive Summary
• II. Leadership Talks
• Leadership Talk by the Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria (2017–2019)
• Leadership Talk by the Austrian Federal Minister for Education, Science and Research (2018–2019)
• Leadership Talk by the Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria (2016–2017); Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (2016–2018)
• Leadership Talk by the Executive Vice-President and CEO of the European Jewish Congress
• Leadership Talk by the European Commission Coordinator on Combating Antisemitism
• Leadership Talk by the AJC Director of International Jewish Affairs; Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Anti-Semitism
• Leadership Talk by the Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights
• Leadership Talk by the Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel (2009–2018)
• Leadership Talk by the Director of the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice
• Leadership Talk by the Bishop of the Protestant Church of Austria (2008–2019)
• Leadership Talk by the Chief Rabbi of Vienna, Austria (2016–2019)
• Leadership Talk by the Imam of the municipal Drancy mosque Seine-Saint-Denis
• Leadership Talk by the Rector of the Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano Buenos Aires
• III. Religion
• Contributions
• Jews and Judaism between Bedevilment and Source of Salvation: Christianity as a Cause of and a Cure against Antisemitism
• Redeeming Humanity from the Evil of the Jews: Islamist Rationalization of Antisemitism
• Scrolls, Testament and Talmud: Issues of Antisemitism in the Study of Ancient Judaism
• Recommendations
• Recommendations regarding Religious Groups and Institutions
• IV. Culture, Education, Research
• Contributions
• Contemporary Philosophical and Ethical Fights over Jews, Judaism, and the State of Israel
• Antisemitism: Sociological Perspectives
• The Psychology of Modern Antisemitism: Theory, Research, and Methodology
• The Demonization of Judaism
• “Antisemitism 2.0”—The Spreading of Jew-hatred on the World Wide Web
• Combatting Antisemitism: An Interdisciplinary Approach
• Recommendations
• Recommendations regarding Cultural Organizations and Institutions
• Recommendations regarding the Internet, its Influencers and its Users
• Recommendations regarding Academic Organizations and Institutions
• Recommendations regarding Educational Organizations and Institutions
• V. Politics, Business and Jurisprudence
• Contributions
• Jews and Non-Jews in Ancient Cities: Alexandria, Antioch, Caesarea, Rome
• Jews against Zionism/Israel: On the Ambivalences of Contemporary Jewish Identity
• The Fight against Antisemitism and the Iranian Regime: Challenges and Contradictions in the Light of Adorno’s Categorical Imperative
• The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism
• The Working Definition of Antisemitism — A 2018 Perception
• Counteracting Antisemitism with Tools of Law: An Effort Doomed to Failure?
• Equal Treatment, not just Religious Freedom: On the Methods of Slaughtering Animals for Human Consumption
• Recommendations
• Recommendations regarding Organizations and Institutions of the Business World
• Recommendations regarding Governments, Political Organizations, and Institutions
• VI. IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism
• IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism
• VII. Editorial Board and List of Contributors
• Editorial Board
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements