The Rhetoric of Antisemitism focuses on the initial struggle Christianity experienced with Judaism, intensifying a hatred thereof, and settling on a religious dogma of eternal guilt meant to perpetuate antisemitism for eternity. Kiewe tackles the similar approach Islam has taken in its tension with Judaism and how it was turned centuries later into the Arab-Israeli conflict, significantly with the help of Nazi-antisemitism and propaganda. This book discusses the significant rise of antisemitism in the 19th and 20th centuries, including the forgery pamphlet The Protocols of the Elders of Zion that promoted the charge of Jewish world domination, and the more recent Durban Conference (2001) as a major turning point in conflating antisemitism and anti-Zionism, including the linguistic games used to merge antisemitism with anti-Israelism. Scholars of religious studies, history, and rhetorical studies will find this book particularly useful.
Autorentext
Amos Kiewe is professor of communication and rhetorical studies at Syracuse University.
Klappentext
The Rhetoric of Antisemitism was prompted by studying the decision of Vatican II (1965) to repudiate antisemitism. A close analysis revealed that the Catholic Church focused on the foundational issue in antisemitism-the charge of eternal guilt whereby Jews are forever guilty of killing Christ. This repudiation of antisemitism came with a rhetorical explanation of this hatred, a perspective rarely explored. In advancing the rhetorical perspective, this book focuses on the initial struggle Christianity experienced with Judaism, intensifying a hatred thereof, and settling on a religious dogma of eternal guilt meant to perpetuate antisemitism for eternity. Kiewe tackles the similar approach Islam has taken in its tension with Judaism and how it was turned centuries later into the Arab-Israeli conflict, significantly with the help of Nazi-antisemitism and propaganda. This volume also discusses the significant rise of antisemitism in the 19th and 20th centuries, including the forgery pamphlet The Protocols of the Elders of Zion that promoted the charge of Jewish world domination, and the more recent Durban Conference (2001) as a major turning point in conflating antisemitism and anti-Zionism, including the linguistic games used to merge antisemitism with anti-Israelism. Finally, in the decision by Vatican II to accept the guilt over antisemitism and seeking its end, both the foundation and a solution to this hatred are evident.
Inhalt
Introduction: Anti-Semitism: A Rhetorical Perspective
Chapter 1: From Guilt to Scapegoating: The Rhetorical Grounding of Antisemitism
Chapter 2: The Messianic Conception in Judaism: The Foundation of a Fatal Misunderstanding
Chapter 3: The Rejection of Judaism and Guilt as Foundational to Antisemitism
Chapter 4: Saint John Chrysostom: Rhetorical Invectives and the Grounding of Antisemitism
Chapter 5: From the Dreyfuss Affair to the Holocaust: Blaming Jews for Antisemitism
Chapter 6: The Protocols of the Wise Elders of Zion: Beyond the Lie
Chapter 7: The Durban Conference and the Reinvention the Past
Chapter 8: The Diabolic Jew and the Visualization of Antisemitism
Chapter 9: The Jew as an Identity of Name and Place
Chapter 10: Nostra Aetate and the End to the Charge of Eternal Guilt
Chapter 11: From Denying to Boycotting: The big lie that is antisemitism
Chapter 12: The Prospects for an End to Antisemitism