Antisemitism, Islamophobia and the Politics of Definition / David Feldman, Marc Volovici.
2023
DS145 .A58 2023
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Title
Antisemitism, Islamophobia and the Politics of Definition / David Feldman, Marc Volovici.
ISBN
9783031162664 electronic book
3031162668 electronic book
303116265X
9783031162657
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16266-4
Published
Cham, Swizterland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer, [2023]
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English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 294 pages).
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10.1007/978-3-031-16266-4 doi
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DS145 .A58 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.8924
Summary
This book, the first to explore the politics of definitions from an interdisciplinary perspective, encourages readers to reconsider the value and limits of definitions in confronting antisemitism and Islamophobia. In recent years, definitions of antisemitism and Islamophobia have become central to the struggle to combat the hostility, harassment and discrimination experienced by Jews and Muslims. Yet these definitions have also provoked fierce controversy: critics have questioned whether they are fit for purpose, or have criticised them as unwelcome attempts to restrict freedom of expression. In this edited collection, historians, social scientists and philosophers reflect on definitions of antisemitism and Islamophobia in both the past and the present. Its contributors investigate the different historical contexts which have shaped definitions and examine their different political purposes and meanings, as well as addressing contemporary debates, and identifying ways for us to move beyond our current impasse. This book therefore provides a broad and new perspective from which to comprehend present day minority politics. David Feldman is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK and Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism. Marc Volovici is Alfred Landecker Lecturer in the Department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa, Israel.
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Palgrave critical studies of antisemitism and racism.
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Part I Introduction
1. The Pure Essence of Things? Contingency, Controversy, and the Struggle to Define Antisemitism and Islamophobia - David Feldman and Marc Volovici
Part II The Long View
2. Bracketing Antisemitism: The Discourse and Its Semantic Distinctions - Manuela Consonni
3. Attitudes to Islam and Muslims in the Christian Balkans - Frederick F. Anscombe
4. Moorish Blood: Islamophobia, Racism and the Struggle for the Identity of Modern Spain - Fernando Bravo Lpez
5. Challenges of The Jewish People: Promises and Perils of Collective Identities - Cynthia M. Baker
Part III The Short View
6. The Antisemitism Question and the Politics of Israel in Cold War America - Doug Rossinow. 7. The Rifle that Stands Between Us: Arab Intellectuals and the Jewish Question, 18392020 - Orit Bashkin
8. Wither Philosemitic Europe? Antisemitism after the Golden Era - G. Daniel Cohen
Part IV The Present Day
9. Defining Antisemitism: What Is the Point? - Brian Klug
10. BDS today is no different from the SA in 1933: Juridification, Securitisation and Antifa-isation of the Contemporary German Discourse on IsraelPalestine, Antisemitism and the BDS Movement - Peter Ullrich
11. Islamophobia, Antisemitism and the Struggle for Recognition: The Politics of Definitions - Tariq Modood
12. Does Defining Racism Help Overcome It? - Rebecca Ruth Gould.

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