Demonizing the other : antisemitism, racism & xenophobia / edited by Robert S. Wistrich.

Published for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Includes index.

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Cover; Demonizing the Other: Antisemitism, Racism, and Xenophobia; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Introduction: The Devil, The Jews, and Hatred of the Other Roberts. Wistrich; Part I; 1. Demonizing the Other -- 2. Why Do Stereotypes Stick?; 3. The Demonization of the Other in the Visual Arts; 4. Antisemitism and Other -isms in the Greco-Roman World; 5. Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages: Shared Myths, Common Language; 6. Jews and Christians in Medieval Muslim Thought; 7. The Transformation of Hatred: Antisemitism as a Struggle for Group Identity.

8. The Borrowed Identity: Neo-Pagan Reactions to the Jewish Roots of Christianity9. Exploring the Other: The Enlightenment's Search for the Boundaries of Humanity; 10. Otherness and Difference: The Perspective of Gender Theory; 11. Recurrent Images in French Antisemitism in the Third Republic; 12. The Critique of Judaism in Modern European Thought: Genuine Factors and Demonic Perceptions; Part II; 13. ""Europe's Inner Demons"": The ""Other"" as Threat in Early Twentieth-Century European Culture; 14. Nazi Antisemitism: Animalization and Demonization.

15. When the Demon Itself Complains of Being Demonized16. All Poets are Yids: The Voice of the Other in Paul Celan; 17. The Popular Image of the Jew in Modern Poland; 18. Mass Death under Communist Rule and the Limits of Otherness -- 19. The Flourishing Demon: Japan in the Role of the Jews?; 20. Anti-Jewish Imagery in the Contemporary Arab-Muslim World; 21. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: New Uses of an Old Myth; 22. The Motivations and Impact of Contemporary Holocaust Denial in Germany; 23. Xenophobia and Antisemitism in the New Europe: The Case of Germany; Index.

At the close of the twentieth century the stereotyping and demonization of 'others', whether on religious, nationalist, racist, or political grounds, has become a burning issue. Yet comparatively little attention has been paid to how and why we fabricate images of the 'other' as an enemy or 'demon' to be destroyed. This innovative book fills that gap through an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural approach that brings together a distinguished array of historians, anthropologists, psychologists, literary critics, and feminists. The historical sweep covers Greco-Roman Antiquity, the MIddle Ages.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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