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Jødehat
Die Geschichte des Judenhasses war lang, brutal und gipfelte in der Vernichtung von über sechs Millionen Juden durch die Nationalsozialisten. Nach der Schoah war der Antisemitismus in Europa tabu, verschwand aber nicht aus den Denkmustern. Vielmehr zeigte er sich in seiner stereotypen Gestalt recht bald wieder. Das Buch behandelt in chronologischer Form die verschiedenen Ausprägungen und Entwicklungen des Judenhasses in Europa. Sie reichen von Vertreibung, Gettoisierung, Pogromen und der Schoah bis zum alltäglichen Antisemitismus. Die Ereignisse werden dabei im jeweiligen historischen, ideologischen und literarischen Kontext verortet.
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690 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2005
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About the author
Trond Berg Eriksen
44 books3 followersTrond Berg Eriksen er en norsk professor i idéhistorie ved Universitetet i Oslo, professor emeritus fra høsten 2015.
Han har utgitt en rekke populærvitenskapelige bøker, og har vært en sentral talsmann for og utøver av idéhistoriefaget i Norge. Han særlig vært formidler av antikkens greske filosofi, italiensk kultur og idéhistorie. Han har utgitt monografier om blant annet Augustin, Dante, Machiavelli, Nietzsche og Kierkegaard. Eriksen har utgitt omkring 20 bøker selv og oversatt omkring 50, og han var redaktør i Samtiden fra 1989 til 1993.
Han har utgitt en rekke populærvitenskapelige bøker, og har vært en sentral talsmann for og utøver av idéhistoriefaget i Norge. Han særlig vært formidler av antikkens greske filosofi, italiensk kultur og idéhistorie. Han har utgitt monografier om blant annet Augustin, Dante, Machiavelli, Nietzsche og Kierkegaard. Eriksen har utgitt omkring 20 bøker selv og oversatt omkring 50, og han var redaktør i Samtiden fra 1989 til 1993.
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June 4, 2020
For en bok! I utgangspunktet skulle kun deler av boken brukes til en undersøkelse, men jeg endte opp med å lese hele boken. Den tar for seg jødehatets historie fra Tacitus’ tid og frem til moderne tid, og er en omfangsrik bok på mange hundre sider. Hovedsakelig inneholder den beskrivelser av hvordan begrunnelsestypene for antisemittisme har forandret seg over tid i en kronologi som for meg gjorde lesingen ekstra interessant.
August 28, 2014
I wish I had bought this book, so I could mark things in it and use it for reference here and there in the University papers I am no longer writing. However, buying a hardcover non-fiction book in Norwegian is equal to throwing your monthly salary away (well, perhaps not quite...), so that won't be happening.
This is written in Norwegian, so I can only recommend it to the other five people living in this country (which, btw, is scoring very high on antisemitic surveys lately, and there's a mere total of 1500 Jews living here). But, anyone anywhere should pick up a book on antisemitism. Because there are tons of them. And there should be tons of them.
Because WHAT ON EARTH?!
In Sweden, and Scandinavia in general, we talk a lot about WW2, so you know about the Holocaust. But about antisemitism in the 19th century? Not so much. There's this impression I have from school and whatnot that normal Germans didn't know, normal Germans weren't that bad, etc. But... eh... yes, they were actually pretty bad. Most of Europe was pretty bad. The authors of this book take some care to not stamp ANTISEMITISM on all persecutions of Jews throughout history, because sometimes they were just persecuted because they were a minority, and on equal footing with other minorities. But it seems that around the 13th or so century, the image of the bloodthirsty, greedy Jew really appeared, and in the 18th and 19th centuries it apparently became a fact, together with the rise of biological antisemitism. It's really... beyond words. I lack words for how stupid people are.
Good things to remember: Jews were treated rather decently by the early Muslims, and Muslims later inherited their antisemitism from Christians. Because Christians is of course where it all comes from.
Perhaps I'm biased now that I've read this book? I should perhaps read another book explaining the attitude of the Catholic church in a more... positive light? If that kind of lightning exists?
Why didn't I know that Martin Luther was a raging antisemite? I'm from a protestant country. We read about him. I've seen movies about him. This has never been mentioned. This seems to go for quite a lot of "brilliant minds" who came with great contributions to European humanism and intellectual thought. Voltaire, anyone? Why is this always left out? (At least here. And in France. I "studied" philosophy in France, and they never mentioned this.)
The blatant ignorance regarding facts surrounding the Holocaust in much of eastern Europe even today is also mind-blowing. I had no idea Poland was that bad back then, after the war, and still today!
Okay, so a couple of comments regarding this particular book: It's written by three people. Three men. (Naturally.) (Can anyone recommend a female viewpoint on Jewish history, by the way?) The first, Eriksen, should try to repeat himself a little bit less. Other than that, he makes for an easy read. Harket, on the other hand, really does love his French words and intricate sentences, so he took almost twice as long to read. And yes, that's the brother of Morten Harket, the lead-singer of A-ha. That's how tiny this country is. The last author, Lorenz, I have no complaints about. Perhaps a bit too much repetition there as well.
My one major complaint about this book is that Sweden is left out more or less altogether. Finland as well. Why? More or less every other country in Europe is discussed, but Norway's closest neighbors are hardly mentioned?
Also, if anyone has any recommendations for books on Jewish culture and history (fiction and non-fiction) I'm all ears!
This is written in Norwegian, so I can only recommend it to the other five people living in this country (which, btw, is scoring very high on antisemitic surveys lately, and there's a mere total of 1500 Jews living here). But, anyone anywhere should pick up a book on antisemitism. Because there are tons of them. And there should be tons of them.
Because WHAT ON EARTH?!
In Sweden, and Scandinavia in general, we talk a lot about WW2, so you know about the Holocaust. But about antisemitism in the 19th century? Not so much. There's this impression I have from school and whatnot that normal Germans didn't know, normal Germans weren't that bad, etc. But... eh... yes, they were actually pretty bad. Most of Europe was pretty bad. The authors of this book take some care to not stamp ANTISEMITISM on all persecutions of Jews throughout history, because sometimes they were just persecuted because they were a minority, and on equal footing with other minorities. But it seems that around the 13th or so century, the image of the bloodthirsty, greedy Jew really appeared, and in the 18th and 19th centuries it apparently became a fact, together with the rise of biological antisemitism. It's really... beyond words. I lack words for how stupid people are.
Good things to remember: Jews were treated rather decently by the early Muslims, and Muslims later inherited their antisemitism from Christians. Because Christians is of course where it all comes from.
Perhaps I'm biased now that I've read this book? I should perhaps read another book explaining the attitude of the Catholic church in a more... positive light? If that kind of lightning exists?
Why didn't I know that Martin Luther was a raging antisemite? I'm from a protestant country. We read about him. I've seen movies about him. This has never been mentioned. This seems to go for quite a lot of "brilliant minds" who came with great contributions to European humanism and intellectual thought. Voltaire, anyone? Why is this always left out? (At least here. And in France. I "studied" philosophy in France, and they never mentioned this.)
The blatant ignorance regarding facts surrounding the Holocaust in much of eastern Europe even today is also mind-blowing. I had no idea Poland was that bad back then, after the war, and still today!
Okay, so a couple of comments regarding this particular book: It's written by three people. Three men. (Naturally.) (Can anyone recommend a female viewpoint on Jewish history, by the way?) The first, Eriksen, should try to repeat himself a little bit less. Other than that, he makes for an easy read. Harket, on the other hand, really does love his French words and intricate sentences, so he took almost twice as long to read. And yes, that's the brother of Morten Harket, the lead-singer of A-ha. That's how tiny this country is. The last author, Lorenz, I have no complaints about. Perhaps a bit too much repetition there as well.
My one major complaint about this book is that Sweden is left out more or less altogether. Finland as well. Why? More or less every other country in Europe is discussed, but Norway's closest neighbors are hardly mentioned?
Also, if anyone has any recommendations for books on Jewish culture and history (fiction and non-fiction) I'm all ears!
April 3, 2024
Denne boken har jeg hatt i bokhyllen i over et tiår. Endelig fikk jeg lest den, og det er jo et passende tidspunkt mtp Israels krigføring i Gaza, som nå knyttes til mange av de gamle fordommene mot jødefolket.
Boken er lang og informativ, og gir et godt overblikk over jødehatets historie, hovedsakelig i Europa, men og litt i USA og Midt-østen. Den er noe gjenntagende og oppramsende, og jeg stusser litt over noen av valgene forfatterne har tatt - det blir f.eks beskrevet hvem kjente figurer som Goebbels var, mens langt mindre kjente figurer (Melanchton, Zwingli) blir nevnt i forbifarten, uten å bli kontekstualisert. At det ikke er et eget kapittel om Jacob Frank og den spliden internt i jødedommen han førte til føler jeg og er et stort hull. Det blir heller ikke gjort noen særlige forsøk på å forstå antisemitismens fordommer. Det blir f.eks nevnt hvordan sammenhengen bolsjevisme-jøde blir brukt i antisemittiske sirkler, i forlengelse av at jøden tar rollen av "den Andre"/fienden, men det blir ikke nevnt at jøder jo var proporsjonalt overrepresentert blant bolsjevikene.
Påstandene om at Islam har "lært" jødehat av de kristne skulle jeg og sett mer debattert, for selv om jøder var tryggere i islamske land enn Europeiske i middelalderen, betyr ikke dette at det ikke har eksistert jødehat der før kristendommens inflytelse. Selve Koranen refererer til at jøder blir gjort om til aper, til dømes.
Boken er lang og informativ, og gir et godt overblikk over jødehatets historie, hovedsakelig i Europa, men og litt i USA og Midt-østen. Den er noe gjenntagende og oppramsende, og jeg stusser litt over noen av valgene forfatterne har tatt - det blir f.eks beskrevet hvem kjente figurer som Goebbels var, mens langt mindre kjente figurer (Melanchton, Zwingli) blir nevnt i forbifarten, uten å bli kontekstualisert. At det ikke er et eget kapittel om Jacob Frank og den spliden internt i jødedommen han førte til føler jeg og er et stort hull. Det blir heller ikke gjort noen særlige forsøk på å forstå antisemitismens fordommer. Det blir f.eks nevnt hvordan sammenhengen bolsjevisme-jøde blir brukt i antisemittiske sirkler, i forlengelse av at jøden tar rollen av "den Andre"/fienden, men det blir ikke nevnt at jøder jo var proporsjonalt overrepresentert blant bolsjevikene.
Påstandene om at Islam har "lært" jødehat av de kristne skulle jeg og sett mer debattert, for selv om jøder var tryggere i islamske land enn Europeiske i middelalderen, betyr ikke dette at det ikke har eksistert jødehat der før kristendommens inflytelse. Selve Koranen refererer til at jøder blir gjort om til aper, til dømes.
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