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Spring 2023, Volume 7, Issue 1

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Editor's Introduction
Catherine Chatterley


Articles

Accounting for Contemporary Antisemitism
A Four-Dimensional Framework and a New Dataset
Johannes Due Enstad

Reflections on George L. Mosse’s Work on Antisemitism
Jeffrey Herf


Scholars Forum

Revisiting Hi**er’s Antisemitism

Christopher R. Browning
Hi**er, Antisemitism, and the Final Solution

François Delpla
The Place of Antisemitism in the Goals of Na**sm

Brendan Simms
Antisemitism and Anti-(International) Capitalism in the Early Thought of Adolf Hi**er, 1919-1924

Thomas Weber
Germany in Crisis: Hi**er’s Antisemitism as a Function of Existential Anxiety and a Quest for Sustainable Security


Book Reviews

Jews Out of the Question: A Critique of Anti-Anti-Semitism
Elad Lapidot
Bernard Harrison

Charlotte Delbo: A Life Reclaimed
Ghislaine Dunant
Deborah Schnitzer

France’s Purveyors of Hatred: Aspects of the French Extreme Right and Its Influence, 1918-1945
Richard Griffiths
Martin A. Schain

Comrades Betrayed: Jewish World War I Veterans under Hi**er
Michael Geheran
Philipp Nielsen

Anti-Semitism and Analytical Psychology: Jung, Politics and Culture
Daniel Burston
Geoffrey C***s

A Century of Populist Demagogues: Eighteen European Portraits, 1918-2018
Ivan T. Berend
Thomas Ehrlich Reifer

The Boundaries of Pluralism: The World of the University of Michigan’s Jewish Students from 1897 to 1945
Andrei Markovits and Kenneth Garner
Jamie Moshin

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Editor’s Introduction

In this issue, we launch our first Scholars Forum. The Forum will be a section of an issue that brings together a group of leading experts in a sub-field of antisemitism research to discuss an important new book, a controversy, or a specific question. The subject of our first Forum is Madga Teter’s new book, Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth (Harvard, 2020), a historical study based on printed and archival sources in 10 languages from eight countries over a period of eight centuries. The participants are leading experts on the subject of ritual murder accusations across Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern period: Elissa Bemporad, Hillel Kieval, Miri Rubin, Paola Tartakoff, Magda Teter, and Robert Weinberg.

Our first article is a fascinating new study of Ingrid Rimland by Ben Goossen. Rimland was the wife of Ernst Zündel and the founder of his Holocaust denial website in California (zundelsite). Goossen explores her life and work as a writer of popular Mennonite historical fiction, including her childhood in N**i-occupied Ukraine and her working relationship with several leading Mennonite intellectuals, before explaining her embrace of neo-Na**sm and turn toward Holocaust denial and antisemitism.

Samuel Ghiles-Meilhac’s article on Houria Bouteldja and the Indigènes de la République provides readers with an intelligent appraisal of the Algerian-born French activist and the political group she founded in 2005. The article traces the history of this activist group and analyzes their public interventions and commentary on subjects concerning Jews including antisemitism, the Holocaust, Zionism, Israel and Palestine, and terrorist attacks against Jews in France. Of particular interest is the Indigènes’ concept of “state philosemitism,” a term they coined to describe the French government’s supposed privileged treatment of Jews resulting in the supposed special attention given to antisemitism above other forms of racism in French public life. Likewise, Jews are accused by the Indigènes of being instruments of the French state and of European racist imperialism in general, and are told to reject their “false whiteness,” which includes both Zionism and their assimilated French identity.

Finally, Philip Spencer provides readers with his reflections on the work of Robert Fine, who passed away in 2018. The focus of the article is on the problem of antisemitism on the Left and how Robert understood its development and persistence. Having worked closely with Fine for many years, Spencer is the perfect interpreter of Fine’s work and the major intellectual influences on his thinking (Marx, Arendt, and Habermas). Robert Fine was dedicated to the concept of universalism and worked within the intellectual universe of the Left to try to provide a critique of, and an alternative to, its “self-inflicted failures.”

This issue’s wide-ranging book reviews include a study of antisemitism in the comedy films of N**i Germany, of the early roots of racism (including its antisemitic variant) in medieval society, an analysis of post-Vatican II Catholic doctrines on the Jewish people, a critical examination of Holocaust memorialization in post-Soviet Eastern Europe, a history of an American blood libel story in 1928 Massena, New York, and new biographies of Zygmunt Bauman and Theodor Herzl.

Sadly, antisemitism research has lost another two important senior scholars: Richard Levy (1940-June 23, 2021) and Manfred Gerstenfeld (1937-February 25, 2021). Richard will be missed by this editor as he was a very generous and helpful member of our advisory board.

As always, I thank our authors, book reviewers, and expert readers for sharing their talent, expertise, and generosity with this publication.

Catherine Chatterley, Founding Editor-in-Chief

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Spring 2021, Volume 5, Issue 1

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Editor’s Introduction
Catherine Chatterley


Articles

A New Protocols: Kevin MacDonald’s Reconceptualization of Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory
Jeffrey C. Blutinger


Modern Antisemitism as Fetishized Anti-Capitalism: Moishe Postone's Theory and its Historical and Contemporary Relevance
Lars Rensmann and Samuel Salzborn


For Reich and Volksgemeinschaft—Against the World Conspiracy: Antisemitism and Sovereignism in the Federal Republic of Germany Since 1945
Jan Rathje


From Medieval Ritual Murder to Modern Blood Libel: The Narrative of “Saint” Dominguito de Val in Spain
François Soyer



Book Reviews

The Jews and the Reformation
Kenneth Austin
Thomas Kaufmann


The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us About the Making of European Commercial Society
Francesca Trivellato
Joshua Teplitsky


The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Ex*****on of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew
Yair Mintzker
David Meola


Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth
Magda Teter
Edward Berenson


Gulag Literature and the Literature of N**i Camps: An Intercontextual Reading
Leona Toker
Benjamin Paloff


Israel Denial: Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, & the Faculty Campaign Against the Jewish State
Cary Nelson
Richard Cravatts


N**is und der Nahe Osten: Wie der Islamische Antisemitismus Entstand
Matthias Küntzel
Jeffrey Herf

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Opinion | A new declaration aims to fight antisemitism without curtailing free speech No definition cannot settle all arguments, or be exhaustive. Context, judgement, and sensitivity are crucial.