Jews & Race: Writings on Identity & Difference, 1880-1940

Book Overview

Many people think of Jews as victims of a particular sort of racism, not as active participants in the development of racial thinking in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Yet many Jews did take up racial discourse and used it to analyze Judaism, Jewish history, and the contemporary condition of world Jewry. Race discourse generated by Jews was in part apologetic, a response to racial antisemitism; however, it also served other political and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584657170
• ISBN13: 9781584657170
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"