On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred, Paul Reitter
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On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred, Paul Reitter
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eng
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non fiction
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On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred
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Paul Reitter
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 popularized "Jewish self-hatred." Reitter contends that, as Kuh and Lessing used it, the concept of Jewish self-hatred described a complex and possibly redemptive way of being Jewish. Paradoxically, Jews could show the world how to get past the blight of self-hatred only by embracing their own, singularly advanced self-critical tendencies--their "Jewish self-hatred.? Provocative and elegantly argued, On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred challenges widely held notions about the history and meaning of this idea, and explains why its history is so badly misrepresented today
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adult
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- Self-hate (Psychology)
- Social sciences -- Ethnic Studies -- General
- Social sciences -- Minority Studies
- History -- Jewish
- Electronic books
- Social sciences -- Discrimination and amp -- Race relations
- Antisemitism + Psychological aspects
- Social sciences -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- Antisemitism -- Psychological aspects
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- Self-hate (Psychology)
- Social sciences -- Ethnic Studies -- General
- Social sciences -- Minority Studies
- History -- Jewish
- Electronic books
- Social sciences -- Discrimination and amp -- Race relations
- Antisemitism + Psychological aspects
- Social sciences -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- Antisemitism -- Psychological aspects
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