Language:
English
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
American Jewish History
Angaben zur Quelle:
89,4 (2001) 355-381
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1500-
;
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism 1800-2000
;
History
;
Antisemitism in literature
;
American literature History and criticism
Abstract:
Presents numerous examples of demonic representations of the Jew in 19th-century American culture. Stereotypes and antisemitic myths originating in medieval Christianity were imported, appearing in sermons, religious and secular literature, school textbooks, and the press. The press reported blood libel stories, and the Civil War heightened fear of Jewish conspiracies. The social and economic progress of American Jews led to the spread of stereotypes about Jews and business. The charge of deicide was featured, inter alia, by the American Catholic press. In the 1890s, the idea of a Jewish conspiracy to control the world appeared in the press. The immigrant Telemachus Timayenis introduced racial antisemitism into the U.S., along with blood libel charges; and disgruntled farmers were encouraged by Populists to scapegoat Jewish "financiers". There is no way to determine the effects of antisemitic propaganda; however, American Jews did not suffer from the pogroms and legal restrictions that characterized the European Jewish experience.
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