Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Classical Period
- Part II Medieval Times
- Part III The Modern Era
- 15 Martin Luther and the Reformation
- 16 The Enlightenment and Its Negative Consequences
- 17 Modern Antisemitism in Western Europe
- 18 Antisemitism in Late Imperial Russia and Eastern Europe through 1920
- 19 Marxism, Socialism, and Antisemitism
- 20A Antisemitism in Modern Literature and Theater
- 20B Antisemitism in Modern Literature and Theater
- 20C Antisemitism in Modern Literature and Theater
- 21 Antisemitism in America, 1654–2020
- 22 Antisemitism in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich
- 23 New Islamic Antisemitism, Mid-19th to the 21st Century
- 24 Anti-Zionism as Antisemitism
- 25 New Issues
- 26 Antisemitism in Social Media and on the Web
- 27 Theories on the Causes of Antisemitism
- Appendix The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance: Working Definition of Antisemitism
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
19 - Marxism, Socialism, and Antisemitism
from Part III - The Modern Era
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Classical Period
- Part II Medieval Times
- Part III The Modern Era
- 15 Martin Luther and the Reformation
- 16 The Enlightenment and Its Negative Consequences
- 17 Modern Antisemitism in Western Europe
- 18 Antisemitism in Late Imperial Russia and Eastern Europe through 1920
- 19 Marxism, Socialism, and Antisemitism
- 20A Antisemitism in Modern Literature and Theater
- 20B Antisemitism in Modern Literature and Theater
- 20C Antisemitism in Modern Literature and Theater
- 21 Antisemitism in America, 1654–2020
- 22 Antisemitism in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich
- 23 New Islamic Antisemitism, Mid-19th to the 21st Century
- 24 Anti-Zionism as Antisemitism
- 25 New Issues
- 26 Antisemitism in Social Media and on the Web
- 27 Theories on the Causes of Antisemitism
- Appendix The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance: Working Definition of Antisemitism
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
Summary
The meaning, the uses, and the function of antisemitism have been rather varied on the left, as elsewhere on the political spectrum. while specific socialists, Communists, and radicals have made use of antisemitic rhetoric, many important leftists have perceived political antisemitism as reactionary, and have combatted it in a variety of different ways.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism , pp. 340 - 357Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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Further Reading
Carlebach, J., Karl Marx and the Radical Critique of Judaism (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization) (London, 1978). The most thorough analysis of Marx’s relationship to antisemitism. Includes an extensive, annotated bibliography.Google Scholar
Fischer, L., The Socialist Response to Antisemitism in Imperial Germany (Cambridge, 2007). An impressive study on the relationships of German Social Democrats toward antisemitism at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Linfield, S., The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky (New Haven, CT, 2019). Explores the attitudes of 20th-century left-wing intellectuals, including Maxime Rodinson, Isaac Deutscher, Albert Memmi, and Noam Chomsky.Google Scholar
McGeever, B., Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution (Cambridge, 2019). An excellent study of the relationships between the Bolsheviks and antisemitism in the era of the Russian Revolution and of the Russian Civil War.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mendelsohn, E., ed., Essential Papers on Jews and the Left (New York, 1997). Reprints of classic pieces by prominent scholars such as Edmund Silberner, Shlomo Avineri, and Jonathan Frankel.Google Scholar
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