Antisemitism in the contemporary world / edited by Michael Curtis.

Papers originally presented at a conference sponsored by the International Center at Rutgers University in association with the American Jewish Congress, held at Rutgers University, Nov. 1983.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : Antisemitism-the baffling obsession / Michael Curtis -- Part one : Philosophy and ideology -- Philosophical reflections on antisemitism / Emil L. Fackenheim -- Marxism versus the Jews / Paul Johnson -- "Jewish question" : left-wing anti-Zionism in Western societies / Robert Wistrich -- Part two : Religion and politics -- Radical Islam and the Arab-Israeli conflict / Emmanuel Sivan -- Antisemitism in the contemporary Arab world / Norman A. Stillman -- Arab antisemitism in peacetime : the Egyptian case / Rivka Yadlin -- Past trials and present tribulations : a Muslim fundamentalist speaks on the Jews / Ronald L. Nettler -- New Testament antisemitism : fact or fable? / John T. Pawlikowski -- German churches and the Jewish people since 1945 / John S. Conway -- Part three : Israel and Zionism -- Is anti-Zionism a new form of antisemitism? / Dan V. Segre -- Anti-Zionism - a global phenomenon / Nathan Glazer -- Zionism as racism : a semantic analysis / Arthur Hertzberg -- Is there a new antisemitism? / Michael R. Marrus -- Part four : Discrimination : action and expression -- Soviet antisemitism and its perception by Soviet Jews / Zvi Gitelman -- Economic boycott and discrimination / Terence Prittie -- Antisemitism and the law : effects and options for action / Stephen J. Roth -- Stealing the Holocaust / Edward Alexander -- Psychology of antisemitism : conscience-proof rationalization and the deferring of moral choice / Wendy Stallard Flory -- Antisemitism, sexism, and the death of the goddess : some problems with new readings of old texts / Judith L. Goldstein -- Part five : Contemporary perceptions -- Perceptions of antisemitism in France / Dominique Schnapper -- Problems of perceiving and reacting to antisemitism : reflections of a "survivor" / William Safran -- Attitudes toward Israel and attitudes toward Jews : the relationship / Earl Raab -- American Jewish organizational efforts to combat antisemitism in the United States since 1945 / Leonard Dinnerstein.