Language:
German
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts
Angaben zur Quelle:
5 (2006) 257-278
Keywords:
Antisemitism Historiography
;
Antisemitism Philosophy
Abstract:
Argues that the three concepts named in the title, though they all originated in the same historical context of the last 150 years, are entirely unrelated in their structure and functions: antisemitism explains the world in terms of the polarization between an abstract Jewry, divorced from experience with real Jews, and the rest of mankind; racism instructs us to combat rival races; and xenophobia is a psychosocial explanation of attitudes toward strangers. Empirically these may merge, as do antisemitism and racism in Nazi ideology; they then, thanks to their differentiation, form a whole greater than the sum of its parts.
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