Global Antisemitism Past and Present

This volume presents a selection of the papers presented at the “Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity” conference organized at Yale University by YIISA/ISGAP in August 2010.

It is one of five volumes reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the conference as well as the diverse nature of the subject of antisemitism in general.

These volumes will be of interest to students and scholars of antisemitism and discrimination, as well as to scholars and readers from other fields. Rather than treating antisemitism merely as an historical phenomenon, they place it squarely in the contemporary context. As a result, the papers presented in these volumes also provide important insights into the ideologies, processes, and developments that give rise to prejudice in the contemporary global context.

Volume III examines the manifestations and impacts of antisemitism in various regional contexts. Some of the papers focus on historical cases, while others focus on recent or contemporary matters. The following papers appear in this volume:

Introduction, Charles Asher Small; Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in the “New” South Africa: Observations and Reflections, Milton Shain; The Politics of Paranoia: How—and Why—the European Radical Right Mobilizes Antisemitism, Xenophobia, and Counter-Cosmopolitanism, Lars Rensmann; Penalizing Holocaust Denial: A View from Europe, Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias; The Judeo-Masonic Enemy in Francoist Propaganda (1936-1945), Javier Domínguez Arribas; “Artisans ... for Antichrist”: Jews, Radical Catholic Traditionalists, and the Extreme Right, Mark Weitzman; Post-war Antisemitism: Germany’s Foreign Policy Toward Egypt, Ulricke Becker; Great Expectations: Antisemitism and the Politics of Free-Speech Jurisprudence, Stephen M. Feldman; A Brief History of Iberian Antisemitism, Lina Gorenstein; Antisemitism in Contemporary Poland, Marek Kucia; Anti-Jewish “Propaganda” in Brazil under Dutch Occupation, Daniela Levy; Antisemitism According to Victor Klemperer, Miriam Oelsner; Antisemitic Anti-Zionism Within the German Left—Die Linke, Sebastian Voigt; Two Thousand Years of Antisemitism: From the Canonical Laws to the Present Day, Anita Waingort Novinsky.