{"id":50141,"date":"2025-12-04T22:38:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=50141"},"modified":"2025-12-04T22:38:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:38:24","slug":"mark-mazower-on-antisemitism-a-word-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=50141","title":{"rendered":"Mark Mazower, \u201eOn Antisemitism: A Word in History\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For most of history, antisemitism has been understood as a menace from Europe\u2019s political Right, the province of blood-and-soil ethno-nativists who built on Christendom\u2019s long-standing suspicion of its Jewish population and infused it with racist pseudo-science. Such threats culminated in the nightmare of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.<br><br>The landscape is very different now, as Mark Mazower argues in this piercingly brilliant book. More than four-fifths of the world\u2019s Jews now live in Israel and the United States, with the former\u2019s military dominance of its region guaranteed by the latter while the loudest voices decrying antisemitism see it coming from the Left not the Right.<br><br>Mazower clearly and carefully shows us how we got here, seeking to illuminate rather than blame. Very few words have the punch of \u2018antisemitism\u2019 and yet no term is more liable to be misunderstood in ways affecting free speech and foreign policy alike. <em>On Antisemitism <\/em>is a vitally important attempt to draw a line that must be drawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Mark Mazower<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mark Mazower<\/strong> is Ira D. Wallach Professor of History at Columbia University, where he directs the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. His previous books include <em>Inside Hitler&#8217;s Greece<\/em>, <em>Dark Continent<\/em>, <em>The Balkans<\/em> and <em>Salonica, City of Ghosts. <\/em>His most recent book, <em>The Greek Revolution<\/em>, won the Duff Cooper Prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/464187\/on-antisemitism-by-mazower-mark\/9780241722909\">https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/464187\/on-antisemitism-by-mazower-mark\/9780241722909<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mazower.jpg?fit=325%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50143,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50141\/revisions\/50143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}