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
21 - Antisemitism in America, 1654–2020
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
A history and periodization of American antisemitism that asks (1) whether to understand the phenomenon as grimly eternal, dependably cyclical, or just as an occasional and episodic factor in American history; (2) whether to interpret antisemitism as a “cultural code,” revealing less about Jews than about the culture that stigmatizes them; and (3) whether antisemitism is different in the United States than in other diaspora lands where Jews have lived.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism , pp. 392 - 411Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
References
Further Reading
Baldwin, N., Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate (New York, 2001). The best-researched study, which also sheds light on the factors that shaped Henry Ford’s antisemitism.Google Scholar
Diamond, S., The Nazi Movement in the United States: 1924–1941 (Ithaca, NY, 1974). A pathbreaking study of the “Nazi Movement,” particularly in the 1930s when support for Nazism in America peaked.Google Scholar
Dinnerstein, L., Antisemitism in America (New York, 1994). The only scholarly history of American antisemitism from colonial America through the 1990s.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gerber, D., ed., Anti-Semitism in American History (Urbana, IL, 1986). An invaluable collection of fresh, thoughtful, and well-researched articles covering diverse and sometimes surprising aspects of American antisemitism.Google Scholar
Goldstein, E., The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity (Princeton, NJ, 2007). An award-winning, deeply researched study of the shifting place of Jews in America’s racial hierarchy.Google Scholar
Greene, M. F., The Temple Bombing (Reading, MA, 1996). A well-researched study of the bombing of Atlanta’s Hebrew Benevolent Congregation (“The Temple”) on October 12, 1958, contextualized within the civil rights movement and the white southerners who violently opposed Black equality.Google Scholar
Higham, J., “Anti-Semitism in the Gilded Age: A Reinterpretation,” The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 43 (March 1957), 559–578. This pathbreaking article began the serious study of American antisemitism and articulated concepts that remain fundamental to its comprehension and study.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Karabel, J., The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale and Princeton (New York, 2005). Karabel tells the story of college “quotas” that limited Jewish admissions, focusing on the three premier Ivy League universities. An exhaustive, well-researched study.Google Scholar
Oney, S., And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank (New York, 2003). The definitive study of the Leo Frank case which rocked Georgia and much of the American Jewish community from 1913 to 1915 and resulted in a torrent of antisemitism. Leo Frank was kidnapped from jail and lynched on the night of August 16, 1915.Google Scholar
Sarna, J. D., When General Grant Expelled the Jews (New York, 2012). The only full-scale study of Ulysses S. Grant’s General Orders No. 11 expelling Jews from his war zone in December 1862, amid the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln overturned the order and Grant subsequently atoned for it.Google Scholar