{"id":48579,"date":"2025-10-02T21:13:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=48579"},"modified":"2025-10-02T21:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:13:19","slug":"jeffrey-herf-three-faces-of-antisemitism-right-left-and-islamist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=48579","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Herf, \u201eThree Faces of Antisemitism: Right, Left and Islamist\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Three Faces of Antisemitism <\/em>examines the three primary forms of antisemitism as they emerged in modern and contemporary Germany, and then in other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chapters draw on the author\u2019s historical scholarship over the years on the form antisemitism assumed on the far right in Weimar and Nazi Germany, in the Communist regime in East Germany, and in the West German radical left, and in Islamist organizations during World War II and the Holocaust, and afterward in the Middle East. The resurgence of antisemitism since the attacks of September 11, 2001, has origins in the ideas, events, and circumstances in Europe and the Middle East in the half century from the 1920s to the 1970s. This book covers the period since 1945 when neo-Nazism was on the fringes of Western and world politics, and the persistence of antisemitism took place primarily when its leftist and Islamist forms combined antisemitism with anti-Zionism in attacks on the state of Israel. The collection includes recent essays of commentary that draw attention to the simultaneous presence of antisemitism\u2019s three faces. While scholarship on the antisemitism of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust remains crucial, the scholarly, intellectual, and political effort to fight antisemitism in our times requires the examination of antisemitism\u2019s leftist and Islamist forms as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book will be of interest to scholars researching antisemitism, racism, conspiracy theories, the far right, the far left, and Islamism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foreword for Jeffrey Herf\u2019s <\/em>Three Faces of Antisemitism<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Hirsh<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acknowledgments<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction: Three Faces of Antisemitism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 Reactionary Modernism, the Jews, and Anticapitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Germany\u2019s Core Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 Nazi Anti-Zionism<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 Nazi Propaganda Aimed at Arabs and Muslims during World War II and the Holocaust<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 The Importance and the Limits of Husseini\u2019s Influence in Nazi Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 East German Communists and the Jewish Question: In Memory of Sigrid Meushel (1944\u20132016) and for Anetta Kahane<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7 East Germany from Antifascism to Undeclared Wars with Israel, 1967\u20131989<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 The West German Left and Israel, 1967\u20131977<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9 Antisemitism and White Racism: Similarities and Differences<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10 Antisemitic Conspiracies Yet Again: White Racism, Holocaust Denial, and Ideological Assaults on Israel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essays on Antisemitism and Contemporary History Since September 11, 2001<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11 What is Old and What is New in the Terrorism of Islamic Fundamentalism?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12 Why They Fight: Hamas\u2019 Too-Little-Known Fascist Charter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13 Is Donald Trump a Fascist?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14 Ideological Exceptionalism: Taking Iran\u2019s Antisemitism Seriously<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15 Antisemitism and the Academy since 9\/11<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16 Conclusion: The Era of Simultaneity of Antisemitism\u2019s Three Faces<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Bibliography<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Index<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jeffrey Herf <\/strong>is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. His previous publications include: Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich <\/em>(1984), Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys <\/em>(1997), The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust <\/em>(2006), Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World <\/em>(2009), Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967\u20131989 <\/em>(2016), and Israel\u2019s Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State <\/em>(2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ISBN 9781032583013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

286 Pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published December 11, 2023 by Routledge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Three-Faces-of-Antisemitism-Right-Left-and-Islamist\/Herf\/p\/book\/9781032583013<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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