Sister Rose Thering’s Battle against Antisemitism

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgements ix
4. Comprehending Antisemitism through the Ages: Introduction 1
5. Comprehending Antisemitism in Antiquity and Late Antiquity
6. Early Christian Anti-Judaism 31
7. Jew-Hatred in Antiquity: Cultural, Legal, and Physical Forms of Antisemitic Persecution 41
8. The Blood Libel and the Leper Libel: Ancient Antisemitism? 79
9. Divinity, Ethnicity, Identity: “Religion” as a Political Category in Christian Antiquity 101
10. Comprehending Antisemitism in the Middle Ages
11. The Evolution of Anti-Jewish Imagery in Medieval Christian Europe 123
12. Inferiority Embodied: The ‘Men-struating’ Jew and Pre-Modern Notions of Identity and Difference 135
13. “All the World’s a Stage”: Imagined Jewish Rituals in Medieval Christian Art and Drama 161
14. Anti-Jewish Legislation in the Middle Ages 183
15. Comprehending Antisemitism in Modern Times
16. Georg Ritter von Schönerers Radikalisierung zum Rassenantisemiten vom Linzer Programm 1882 bis zur Gründung des „Verbandes der Deutschnationalen“ 1885 219
17. The Defense against Antisemitism: Minor Victories, Major Defeats, 1890–1939 233
18. The Jewish Response to Antisemitism in Austria Prior to the Anschluss 245
19. Nazi Propaganda in the Middle East and its Repercussions in the Postwar Period 257
20. Comprehending Shoah and Post-Shoah Antisemitism
21. Is the Holocaust a Unique Historical Event? A Debate between Two Pillars of Holocaust Research and its Impact on the Study of Antisemitism 275
22. Caribbean Jewry: A Model of Tolerance or Assimilation? 295
23. Sholem Aleichem and Qumran: Jewish-Related Scholarship in the Soviet Union, 1953–1967 325
24. Sister Rose Thering’s Battle against Antisemitism 347
25. Antisemitism in Today’s America 367
26. Antisemitic Perceptions and Jewish Sense of Belonging 393
27. Comprehending Anti-Zionism as a Virulent Form of “New Antisemitism”
28. The German Left and Israel 411
29. Comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany in Contemporary German Discourse 443
30. “Israel Threatens to Defend Itself”: The Depiction of Israel in the Media 465
31. Editorial Board 479
32. List of Contributors 481
33. Acknowledgements 483