Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Radical History Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
75 (1999) 3-27
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
African Americans Relations with Jews
;
Jews
Abstract:
From the mid-1950s to the early 1970s, leaders and intellectuals of the American Jewish community managed to reinterpret the memory of the Holocaust. While, at the early stage, Holocaust images evoked analogy with anti-Black politics in the USA and encouraged Jewish radicals to support the African-American struggle for social justice, in the late 1960s-70s those images helped the conservatives to discourage such support. In the 1960s a neo-conservative Holocaust consciousness emerged, whose leitmotif was a focus on Jewish problems and survival in the post-Auschwitz world, isolating them from the problems of others. Many conservatives also expressed concern over growing Black antisemitism. Despite the conservatives' contempt for "Jewish masochism, " which expressed itself in involvement with the Black liberationist struggle and a call for a more universalist interpretation of the "lessons of the Holocaust, " Jewish left-wing radicalism did not disappear in the 1970s.
Note:
In the USA.
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