On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred

On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 175
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ISBN-10 : 9781400841882
ISBN-13 : 1400841887
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Book Synopsis On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred by : Paul Reitter

Download or read book On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred written by Paul Reitter and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-29 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new intellectual history that looks at "Jewish self-hatred" 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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