(Ebook) Revisiting the Jewish Question by Roudinesco, Elisabeth ISBN 9780745652191, 9780745652207, 9780745683720, 0745652190, 0745652204, 074568372X

(Ebook) Revisiting the Jewish Question by Roudinesco, Elisabeth ISBN 9780745652191, 9780745652207, 9780745683720, 0745652190, 0745652204, 074568372X

What does it mean to be Jewish? What is an anti-Semite? Why does the enigmatic identity of the men who founded the first monotheistic religion arouse such passions? 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 Eur.;Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Dedication; Introduction; 1: Our First Parents; 2: The Shadow of the Camps and the Smoke of the Ovens; 3: Promised Land, Conquered Land; 4: Universal Jew, Territorial Jew; 5: Genocide between Memory and Negation; 6: A Great and Destructive Madness; 7: Inquisitorial Figures; Notes; Index.