- Summary
- We need to return to the Jewish question. We need, first, to distinguish between the anti-Judaism of medieval times, which persecuted the Jews, and the anti-Judaism of the Enlightenment, which emancipated them while being critical of their religion. It is a mistake to confuse the two and see everyone from Voltaire to Hitler as anti-Semitic in the same way. Then we need to focus on the development of anti-Semitism in Europe, especially Vienna and Paris, where the Zionist idea was born. Finally, we need to investigate the reception of Zionism both in the Arab countries and within the Diaspora. Re-examining the Jewish question in the light of these distinctions and investigations, Roudinesco shows that there is a permanent tension between the figures of the "universal Jew" and the "territorial Jew". Freud and Jung split partly over this issue, which gained added intensity after the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 and the Eichmann trial in 1961. Finally, Roudinesco turns to the Holocaust deniers, who started to suggest that the Jews had invented the genocide that befell their people, and to the increasing number of intellectual and literary figures who have been accused of anti-Semitism. -- Publisher description.
- Uniform Title
- Retour sur la question juive. English
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Roudinesco, Elisabeth, 1944- author.
- Published
- Cambridge : Polity Press, 2013
©2013
- Edition
- English edition
- Contents
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Our first parents
The shadow of the camps and the smoke of the ovens
Promised land, conquered land
Universal Jew, territorial Jew
Genocide between memory and negation
A great and destructive madness
Inquisitorial figures.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Brown, Andrew (Literary translator), translator.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-231) and index.
Our first parents -- The shadow of the camps and the smoke of the ovens -- Promised land, conquered land -- Universal Jew, territorial Jew -- Genocide between memory and negation -- A great and destructive madness -- Inquisitorial figures.
