Overview
- Explores how left-wing political and cultural movements in Western Europe have considered Jews in the last two hundred years
- Questions the relationship between the Marxist tradition and the oldest religious minority in the world
- Examines whether Jews hinder the realization of socialism or participate in the struggle for the advent of a new civilization
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Part I
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Part II
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About this book
This book examines how left-wing political and cultural movements in Western Europe have considered Jews in the last two hundred years. The chapters seek to answer the following question: has there been a specific way in which the Left has considered Jewish minorities? The subject has taken various shapes in the different geographical contexts, influenced by national specificities. In tandem, this volume demonstrates the extent to which left-wing movements share common trends drawn from a collective repertoire of representations and meanings. Highlighting the different aspects of the subject matter, the chapters in this book are divided in three parts, each dedicated to a major theme: the contribution of the theorists of Socialism to the Jewish Question; Antisemitism and its representations in left-wing culture; and the perception of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Taken together, these three themes allow for a multidisciplinary analysis of the relationship between the Left and Jews fromthe second half of the nineteenth century to recent times.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The European Left and the Jewish Question, 1848-1992
Book Subtitle: Between Zionism and Antisemitism
Editors: Alessandra Tarquini
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56662-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56661-6Published: 03 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56664-7Published: 03 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56662-3Published: 02 July 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 348
Topics: European History, History of Modern Europe, Judaism, History, general, Cultural History