THE ISGAP PAPERS ANTISEMITISM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE VOLUME THREE
THE ISGAP PAPER.S
ANTISEMITISM IN
COMPAR.ATIVE PERSPECTIVE
VOLUME THREE
Charles Asher Small Editor
ISGAP
New York • Montreal • Kyiv • Tel Aviv • Paris • Rome • Oxford • Vienna INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM AND POLICY
Executive Director Charles Asher Small Co-Chairs of the International Academic Board of Advisors Professor Alan Dershowitz Professor Ruth Wisse Director of ISGAP, Canada Michelle Whiteman Director of ISGAP, France Glen Feder Director of ISGAP, Israel Mala Tabory Director of ISGAP, Italy Robert Hassan
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ISBN 978-1-724898-51-7 Table of Contents
Introduction ...... 1 Charles Asher Small Antisemitism and the Problem of Jewish Firstness ...... 13 Adam Katz Theodor Lessing and Jewish Self-Hatred ...... 25 Alon Segev Trends in the Psychological Study of Contemporary Antisemitism: Conceptual Issues and Empirical Evidence ...... 39 Neil J. Kressel and Samuel W. Kressel The German People and the Holocaust: New Sources, New Insights...... 67 Susanna Schrafstetter and Alan E. Steinweis Resentment, Anxiety, and Careerism: Accounting for Antisemitism in the Academy and among the Intelligentsia ...... 79 Barry A. Kosmin Gaza = Auschwitz: The Logic of Holocaust Inversion ...... 95 Martin Kramer Anti-Zionism: The Soft Underbelly in Jihad’s Cognitive War on the Western World ...... 107 Richard Landes From Christian Antisemitism to New Antisemitism: The Case of Philoumenos of Jacob’s Well ...... 139 David Gurevich and Yisca Harani The Three Totalitarian Temptations: A Different Look at an Essential Aspect of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict ...... 171 Col. (res.) Dr. Eran Lerman The Political and Intellectual War on Israel in Latin America ...... 187 Luis Fleischman