Soon after the founding of the Center, the bibliography on antisemitism became one of its major ongoing research projects. The purpose was to create a reference bibliography for scholars and students engaged in research on antisemitism. Today, after almost fifteen years of listing and annotating works on antisemitism, the bibliography can truly be called an essential guide. The comprehensive, detailed subject and author indexes, and the table of contents allow access to the material in a variety of ways.
The Felix Posen Bibliographic Project on Antisemitism comprises an online database accessible through Israel’s university library network (ALEPH), and printed volumes.
The bibliography includes works published throughout the world about antisemitism—books, dissertations, masters’ theses, and articles from periodicals and collections. It does not include newspaper articles, reviews, and works of fiction, nor does it cover antisemitic publications.
The project has two parts:
For the purpose of this bibliography, antisemitism is defined as antagonism toward Jews and Judaism as expressed in writings (e.g., the New Testament, polemical works, literature), in the visual arts (e.g., art, caricatures, films), and in action (e.g., pogroms, blood libel accusations, discriminatory legislation, the Holocaust).
The references are divided into three sections:
Antisemitism throughout the Ages
Antisemitism in Literature and the Arts
A staff of academic abstractors continually catalogs new material. Two additional staff members retrieve information in response to requests received from around the world, in addition to assisting faculty, students, and researchers at the Hebrew University. Bibliographies on specific subjects — for workshops, conferences and study groups — are retrieved on request.
There is also a database on “The ‘Jewish Question’ in German-Speaking Countries, 1848–1914” of approximately 4,500 references. This database is currently being expanded to cover events up to 1933.
Online Access to the Bibliographies
The above databases are accessible through Israel’s university library network (ALEPH), and can be reached from all over the world via Telnet and Internet.
To gain access to the Bibliography on Antisemitism databases Telnet to:
The username is SICSA. No password is required. Instructions for searching are on the screen.
Susan Sarah Cohen, ed., Antisemitism: An Annotated Bibliography, Vols. 1-12 (1984–96). Munich: K. G. Saur Verlag
Rena R. Auerbach, ed., The “Jewish Question” in German-Speaking Countries, 1849–1914. New York: Garland, 1994. xxv + 385 pp. ISBN 0-8153-0812-4. Outstanding Academic Book, 1995, CHOICE Reviews of Academic Books
Ordering the Bibliographies
The series Antisemitism: An Annotated Bibliography is published by K. G. Saur Verlag, Munich, including reprints of the first three volumes. For further information please contact:
Barbara Fischer, Editorial Dept.
K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
D-81373 Munich, GERMANY
FAX 49 89 76 902 350
You may order directly from the Saur website: http://www.saur.de/jewish/jeindex.htm
Harwood Academic Publishers
Robert S. Wistrich, Editor
Demonizing the Other: Antisemitism, Racism, and Xenophobia
Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers
At the close of the twentieth century, the stereotyping and demonization of “others,” whether on religious, nationalist, racist, or political grounds, has become a burning issue. Yet comparatively little attention has been paid to how and why we fabricate images of the “other” as an enemy or “demon” to be destroyed. This innovative book fills that gap through an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural approach that brings together a distinguished array of historians, anthropologists, psychologists, literary critics, and feminists.
The historical sweep covers Greco-Roman antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the modern era. Antisemitism receives special attention because of its longevity and its centrality to the Holocaust, but it is analyzed here within the much broader framework of racism and xenophobia. The plurality of viewpoints expressed in this volume provide fascinating insights into what is common and what is unique to the many varieties of prejudice, stereotyping, demonization, and hatred.
Introduction: The Devil, the Jews, and Hatred of the “Other” Robert S. Wistrich
Demonizing the “Other” Harumi Befu
Why Do Stereotypes Stick? Yaacov Schul and Henri Zukier
The Demonization of the “Other” in the Visual Arts Ziva Amishai-Maisels
Antisemitism and Other –isms in the Greco-Roman World Daniel R. Schwartz
Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages: Shared Myths, Common Language Israel J. Yuval
Jews and Christians in Medieval Muslim Thought Hava Lazarus-Yafeh
The Transformation of Hatred: Antisemitism as a Struggle for Group Identity Henri Zukier
The Borrowed Identity: Neo-Pagan Reactions to the Jewish Roots of Christianity Shmuel Almog
Exploring the Other: The Enlightenment’s Search for the Boundaries of Humanity Shulamit Volkov
Otherness and Difference: The Perspective of Gender Theory Yael S. Feldman
Recurrent Images in French Antisemitism in the Third Republic Richard I. Cohen
The Critique of Judaism in Modern European Thought: Genuine Factors and Demonic Perceptions Otto D. Kulka
“Europe’s Inner Demons”: The “Other” as Threat in Early Twentieth-Century European Culture Saul Friedländer
Nazi Antisemitism: Animalization and Demonization Philippe Burrin
When the Demon Itself Complains of Being Demonized Simon Epstein
“All Poets Are Yids”: The Voice of the “Other” in Paul Celan John Felstiner
The Popular Image of the Jew in Modern Poland Yisrael Gutman
Mass Death under Communist Rule and the Limits of “Otherness” Steven T. Katz
The Flourishing Demon: Japan in the Role of the Jews? Ben-Ami Shillony
Anti-Jewish Imagery in the Contemporary Arab-Muslim World Rivka Yadlin
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: New Uses of an Old Myth Dina Porat
The Motivations and Impact of Contemporary Holocaust Denial in Germany Wolfgang Benz
Xenophobia and Antisemitism in the New Europe: The Case of Germany Robert S. Wistrich
Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France
Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, and
New York: New York University Press, 1996
Russian Antisemitism, Pamyat, and the Demonology of Zionism
Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers,
ISBN 3-7186-5740-6 (hardcover) ISBN 3-7186-5742-2 (softcover)
The Catholic Church and Antisemitism: Poland, 1933–1939
Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1994.
ISBN 3-7186-5568-3. College Theology Society Best Book Award, 1994
Harwood publications may be ordered directly from their website: http://www.gbhap.com/
Studies in Antisemitism Series
Robert Everett, Christianity without Antisemitism: James Parkes and the Jewish Christian Encounter. Oxford: Pergamon, 1993. xiv + 346 pp. ISBN 0-08-041040-5
Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. New York: Free Press, 1993. ix + 278 pp. ISBN 0-02-919235-8
Ronald Nettler, Past Trials and Present Tribulations: A Muslim Fundamentalist's View of the Jews. Oxford: Pergamon, 1987. 104 pp. ISBN 0-08-0347916
Elisheva Revel-Neher, The Image of the Jew in Byzantine Art. Oxford: Pergamon, 1992. 200 pp. with 100 illustrations, 10 in color. ISBN 0-08-0406556
Frank Stern, The Whitewashing of the Yellow Badge: Antisemitism and Philosemitism in Postwar Germany 1945–1952. Oxford: Pergamon, 1992. xxv + 455 pp. ISBN 0-08-040653X
Leon Volovici, Nationalist Ideology and Antisemitism: The Case of Romanian Intellectuals in the 1930s. Oxford: Pergamon, 1991. xi + 213 pp. ISBN 0-08-041-24-3
Studies in Antisemitism: History
Shmuel Almog, Nationalism and Antisemitism in Modern Europe, 1815–1945. Oxford: Pergamon, 1990. xxv + 159 pp. ISBN 0-08-377742 (pb); ISBN 0-08-0372546 (hb)
Joint Project with the Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History and the Historical Society of Israel, Jerusalem
Michel Abitbol, From Crémieux to Pétain: Antisemitism in Colonial Algeria, 1870–1940 (Hebrew). Jerusalem: Shazar, 1988. 188 pp. ISBN 965-205-122-7
Shmuel Almog, Nationalism and Antisemitism in Modern Europe 1815-1945 (Hebrew). Jerusalem: Shazar, 1988. 181 pp. ISBN 965-227-051-2
Nathaniel Katzburg, Antisemitism in Hungary 1867–1944 (Hebrew). Jerusalem: Shazar, 1992. 203 pp. ISBN 965-227-082-2
Rivka Yadlin, Anti-Zionism as Anti-Judaism in Egypt (Hebrew). Jerusalem: Shazar, 1988. 157 pp. ISBN 965-227-050-4
Miriam Yardeni, Huguenots and Jews (Hebrew). Jerusalem: Shazar, 1998, 193 pp. ISBN 965-227-122-5.
SICSA Publications, Jerusalem
Robert S.Wistrich and Sergio DellaPergola, eds.
Fascist Antisemitism and the Italian Jews
Jerusalem: Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism
and Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, 1995, $10.00
Papers collected here were originally presented at a symposium on Fifty Years after the Racial Laws in Italy, held in Jerusalem. Contains a preface by Sergio DellaPergola. Papers include: Robert S. Wistrich, “Fascism and the Jews of Italy”; Mario Sznajder, “The Fascist Regime, Antisemitism, and the Racial Laws in Italy”; Simonetta Della Seta, “Italian Zionism Confronts Fascism and the Racial Laws”; and Meir Michaelis, “The Current Debate over Fascist Racial Policy.”
Yehuda Bauer, ed.
The Danger of Antisemitism in Central and Eastern Europe in the Wake of 1989–1990
Jerusalem. Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. 1991, $10.00.
Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus
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This unit analyzes local and national changes, as well as regional influences on public opinion, the arts, the mass media, and ideological and political movements. The unit compares trends worldwide, pinpointing serious potential threats.
ACTA is engaged in accumulating data on current antisemitism. Analyses are published as a series of occasional papers. The following titles appeared in 1993–1999:
2. Simon Epstein: Cyclical Patterns in Antisemitism: The Dynamics of Anti-Jewish Violence in Western Countries since the 1950s. 1993.
3. Theodore H. Friedgut: Antisemitism and Its Opponents in the Russian Press: From Perestroika until the Present. 1994.
4. Herta Herzog: The Jews as ‘Others’: On Communicative Aspects of Antisemitism. 1994.
5. Leon Volovici: Antisemitism in Post-Communist Eastern Europe: A Marginal or Central Issue? 1994.
6. Tali Tadmor-Shimony: Antisemitism on the Information Superhighway: A Case Study of a UseNet Discussion Group. 1995.
7. Daniel Perdurant: Antisemitism in Con- temporary Greek Society. 1995.
8. Simon Epstein: Extreme Right Electoral Upsurges in Western Europe: The 1984–1995 Wave as Compared with the Previous Ones. 1996.
9. Gilad Margalit: Antigypsyism in the Political Culture of the Federal Republic of Germany: A Parallel with Antisemitism? 1996.
10. Shlomit Levy: Israeli Perceptions of Antisemitism. 1996
11. Rotem Kowner: On Ignorance, Respect and Suspicion: Current Japanese Attitudes towards Jews. 1997.
12. Laslo Sekelj, Antisemitism and Jewish Identity in Serbia after the 1991 Collapse of the Yugoslav State. 1998.
13. Victor A. Shnirelman, Russian Neo-Pagan Myths and Antisemitism. 1998.
14. Liudmilla Dymerskaya-Tsigelman and Leonid Fineberg, Antisemitism of the Ukrainian Radical Nationalists: Ideology and Policy. 1999.
15. José L. Rodríguez-Jiménez, Antisemitism and the Extreme Right in Spain. 1999. [out of print]
16. András Kovács, Antisemitism in Hungary Today. 1999.
Research proposals for the ACTA series may be submitted to the ACTA staff.
The information and documentation service of ACTA enables researchers and students to easily access articles, reports, surveys, and specialized journals that deal with current antisemitism. Advice and assistance is provided by the ACTA staff. Inquiries are welcome.
will examine the categories that have constituted how antisemitism has
been understood and opposed by some of its major theorists. The development
of the conceptual category of “anti-antisemitism” as fruitful for the understanding
of the history of antisemitism is one goal of the project. Drawing on the
critical strategies of those theorists, it reconsiders the work of Jean-Paul
Sartre, Hannah Arendt, the Frankfurt School (focusing on Erich Fromm, the
collective work in The Authoritarian Personality and Horkheimer
and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment), Talcott Parsons’ essays
on the sociology of antisemitism, and the more recent efforts by thinkers
associated with “postmodernism,” especially Jean-François Lyotard.
It is a critical reading of their work in order to reconstruct genealogically
some of the central concepts that structure how scholars and the public
more generally have come to think about antisemitism after the Holocaust.
Dr. Vygantas Vareikis, University of Klaipéda, Lithuania
will analyze anti-Jewish stereotypes and the growth of antisemitism in
modern Lithuania on the basis of historical and literary sources and folklore.
Utilizing nineteenth-century records, the Aušra and Varpas
journals, the memoirs of Lithuanian politicians and intellectuals, and
collections of folklore, the penetration of antisemitism into society will
be explored. Another aim is to present the background and to explain the
participation of many Lithuanians in the implementation of the “Final Solution.”
Dr. Victoria Khiterer, Hebrew University
1905, hundreds of pogroms took place in cities, towns, and villages in
the Ukraine. The research will investigate the political nature of these
pogroms and the involvement of the authorities. The Russian political context
will be analyzed, as well as the attitude of local and central authorities,
the social structure of the victims, forms of Jewish self-defense, including
the reactions to the pogroms as manifested by various groups in Russian
and Ukrainian society.
will look at the attitudes of various social groups — professional organizations,
churches, “ordinary people” — to the official discrimination against the
Jews during the Holocaust period. Changes in the Hungarian collective consciousness
under the influence of antisemitic propaganda by the press and by representatives
of Christian Churches, especially the Catholic Jesuit and Franciscan orders,
will be analyzed. In addition, the reactions of the Churches’ leadership
when faced with the racial laws and with increased requests by Jews to
be baptized will be addressed.
Prof. Laslo Sekelj, Institute of European Studies, Belgrade
will give a comprehensive sociological and historical description of the
various forms of antisemitism in Yugoslavia during the periods of state-building
(1900–1919), national conflict (1919–1941), during the Second World War
and the Holocaust, as well as during the recent period of state self-destruction
(1986–1991), and civil war (1991–1995). The examination of different antisemitic
aspects will be linked to the main historical and political processes which
took place in Yugoslavia and to ethnic tensions and conflicts.
Dr. Olaf Blaschke, Jews and Catholics in the German Empire
Dr. Jacob Borut, Antisemitism in Jewish Everyday Life in the Weimar Republic
Prof. Benjamin Braude, The Image of the Jew in the Literature of Eastern Travel, 1350–1650
Prof. Oleg Budnitskii, Russian Jews between the Reds and the Whites: Jews and the Anti-Bolshevik Movement.
Dr. Patrick Anthony Cavaliere, Antisemitism in Fascist Italy: The Intellectual Origins of the Racial Laws of 1938
Dr. Daniel Gutwein, Antisemitism in England 1882–1914: Economic and Political Factors
Dr. Brian Horowitz, Russian-Jewish Interaction, 1880–1913: Cultural Cooperation in an Epoch of Antisemitism
Prof. Melinda Jones, The Role of Law in Overcoming Antisemitism in Australia
Prof. Judith Kornblatt, Russian Jewish- Christians: Between Antisemitism and Identity
Dr. Anthony Kauders, Democracy and Antisemitism in Munich, 1945–1965
Dr. Alan T. Levenson, German Philosemitism before Hitler
Dr. Avigdor Löwenheim, Antisemitic Violence in Hungary during the Period of Political Radicalization and the “White Terror” (1919)
Andrei Oisteanu, The Image of the Jew in Romanian Traditional Culture
Dr. José L. Rodríguez Jiménez, Extreme Right, Xenophobia, and Antisemitism in Spain (1931–1982): The Political Use of the “Conspiracy Theory.”
Dr. Nora Strejilevich, The Construction of Antisemitic Discourse in Contemporary Argentina: 1974–1994
Dr. Anna Szalai, Jewish Characters in Hungarian Literature of the Nineteenth Century
Dr. Leon Volovici (Project Coordinator) Antisemitism in Public Discourse in Post- Communist Eastern European Societies, with Dr. András Kovács, Prof. Wolf Moskovich, Dr. Gheorge Voicu, and Dr. Paul Zawadski
Prof. Cesare De Michelis, The Non-Existent Manuscript: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, A Twentieth-Century Apocryphal
Dr. Nissim Kazaz, Arab Nationalism and the Attitude toward Jews in Modern Iraq
Dr. Vadim Rossman, Russian Intellectual Antisemitism in the Post-Communist Era
Dr. Victor Shnirelman, The Myth of the Khazars and Intellectual Antisemitism in Russia, 1970s–1990s
Felix Posen Ph.D. Fellowships
Nimrod Amzalak, Hebrew University, Student Culture and Fascist Discourse during the Third Republic in France
Florent Brayard, Centre Marc Bloch, Germany, Gerstein’s Report: Production, Interpretation, Reception, 1942–1997
Agnieszka Friedrich, University of Gdansk, Poland, Boles?aw Prus’s Attitude to the “Jewish Question”
Dana E. Katz, University of Urbana- Champaign, USA, Between Privilege and Perfidy: Portraying the Jew in Fifteenth-century North Italian Painting
Joanna Michlic, University College London, The Myth of the Jew as Threatening the Other: Polish Nationalism and Society in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Iael Orvieto, Hebrew University, From Discrimination to Persecution: Italian Jews in Crisis: 1938–1943
Albert Kaganovich, Hebrew University, The Attitude of the Czarist Administration to the Bukharan Jews, 1868–1917
The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism congratulates the following scholars, who received Felix Posen Fellowships in previous years, and have now been awarded their doctoral degrees:
Meir Amor, University of Toronto, “Violent Ethnocentrism: A Comparative Analysis of Pariah-hood”
Shaul Baumann, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “The German Faith Movement and Its Founder, Jacob Wilhelm Hauer”
Till van Rahden, University of Bielefeld, “Jews as Established Outsiders? Jewish-Gentile Relations in Breslau, 1870–1918”
Kalik, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “The Catholic Church and the
Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Seventeenth–Eighteenth
Publications resulting from research funded by the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism
Cesare G. De Michelis, Il manoscritto inesistente: I “Protocolli dei savi di Sion” un apocrifo del XX secolo. Venice: Marsilio, 1998.
(October 1998–July 1999)
Shaul Baumann, “‘The Black Sun’: Occultism, Religious Consolidation, and Antisemitism in Nazi Germany” (16 November 1998)
Silvia Cresti, “German Nationalism and Jewish Identity: The Perception of Antisemitism in Jewish Periodicals during the Weimar Republic” (21 December 1998)
Wolf Moskovich “The Rhetoric of Post- CommunistRussian Nationalism” (15 February 1999)
Marc-Olivier Baruch, “The Civil Service and the Anti-Jewish Legislation in Vichy France” (15 March 1999)
Joanna Michlic, “The Jew as the Threatening ‘Other’ in Polish Political Discourse during the Second World War” (19 April 1999)
Victor Shnirelman, “‘Aryans’ and ‘Khazars’: Historiosophic Myths of Contemporary Russian Antisemites” (24 May 1999)
Prof. Laslo Sekelj, “Past and Present Yugoslavia: Jews, Antisemitism, and Ethnic Conflicts” (5 June 1999)
Author and editor Geoffrey Wigoder, who was engaged for many years in interfaith dialogue, died on April 9, 1999. Born in Leeds, England in 1922, he came to Israel in 1949. He served as head of Israel Radio’s overseas broadcasting, and was a BBC correspondent. He was director of the Oral History Department of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and chairman of the Israel Interfaith Association. He authored a number of books, and was editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia Judaica and Encyclopedia of the Jewish Religion, general editor of the Illustrated Dictionary and Concordance of the Bible, and of the English edition of the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. He contributed many articles to the Jerusalem Post, the Jewish Chronicle of Britain, and the Tablet, an English Catholic weekly.
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