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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict as Seen by the Spanish Left from the Gulf War Until Today
The first aim of this work is the analysis of the image of the conflict between Israel and Palestine in the newspaper of the Communist Party of Spain...
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Jews, Consumer Culture, and Jewish Consumer Cultures: An Introduction
More than a decade ago, Jewish studies witnessed an economic turn, driven by a growing interest in Jews’ economic activities, Jewish-gentile economic...
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Christianity’s Claims: A Kaleidoscope of Theologies
The return of Jews to Palestine presented Christianity with a complicated challenge. It raised theological issues that had appeared settled and...
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Judaism’s Claims: A Multiplicity of Interpretations
The Jewish claim to the Promised Land varies regarding borders but is definite in principle. The triad of God, People and Land is established in the...
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Philosemitism
This chapter explores the phenomenon of philosemitism both historically and theoretically. Defined as the “defense, love, or admiration of Jews and...
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The Italian Communists and Socialists’ Reading of the Six-Day War and Its Consequences
The Six-Day War (5–10 June 1967) has often been described as the event that determined the “anti-Israeli turning-point” of the Italian Communist...
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History as Legitimacy
Historical narratives are interwoven in all categories of secular claims to territory. Nevertheless, “history” merits separate attention since it has...
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Ashkenazi Anxieties: A Transnational Social History of Jewish Genetic Admixture Modeling, 1971–1986
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, population geneticists sought computational solutions to integrate greater numbers of genetic traits into...
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Conquest, Treaties and Self-Determination
Until after World War I, conquest and the treaties that followed victory on the battlefield were widely invoked in claiming territory. It was on this...
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Bracketing Antisemitism: The Discourse and Its Semantic Distinctions
In this chapter I retrace the historical “othering” of the Jews through a discussion of the semantic changes in antisemitic discourse centered on the...
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From Discovery to Rediscovery: The Economic Absorptive Capacity of Palestine
The concept of “discovery” in international law was famously articulated by Chief Justice John Marshall. In a series of cases, notably Johnson v....
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Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism
This volume is designed to assist university faculty and students studying and teaching about antisemitism, racism, and other forms of prejudice. In...
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Challenges of ‘The Jewish People’: Promises and Perils of Collective Identities
The word ‘Jew(s)’ has always been a peculiarly potent term whose lability as a concept and category has long rendered it a powerful mechanism for...
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“The Brotherhood of Pain”: Israel
An additional alliance was that between South Africa and Israel. From the achievement of independence in 1948, Penn paid numerous visits to a country...
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“The Pure Essence of Things”? Contingency, Controversy, and the Struggle to Define Antisemitism and Islamophobia
This chapter examines the value and limits of definitions in addressing antisemitism and Islamophobia, two relatively recent terms conveying a...
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Scotland’s Foreigners: Making Identities in Scotland
When migrants came to Scotland from continental Europe in the late nineteenth century and afterwards, they came with identities which in themselves...
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Introduction
I do not pretend that mine is a detached history. This volume is a partisan history. I agree with Saul Friedländer that ‘a kind of purely scientific...
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The Early Years
This chapter covers the period 1917–1948 starting with an examination of the formative years of the British labour movement’s support for a Jewish...