Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism
Particular attention is paid to three major manifestations of Western anti-Semitism: the development of institutionalized anti-Semitism in the Roman Empire, the Iberian Inquisitions, and the phenomenon of Nazism. All of these movements exhibited a powerful gentile group cohesion in opposition to Judaism as a group strategy, and MacDonald argues that each may be analyzed as a reaction to the presence of Judaism as a highly successful group evolutionary strategy. Because of the repeated occurrence of anti-Semitism, Jews have developed a highly flexible array of strategies to minimize its effects. These include: crypsis during periods of persecution, controls on Jewish behavior likely to lead to anti-Semitism, and the manipulation of gentile attitudes toward Jews. This controversial work challenges prevailing views. Students and scholars involved with evolutionary approaches to human behavior and Jewish Studies will be interested, as will social scientists and historians in general. |
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... anti - Semitic book is , to use White's phrase , expectable and completely in keeping with the thesis of this essay . A major theme of this volume , found especially in Chapters 6 and 7 , is that intellectual defenses of Judaism and of ...
... anti - Semitism from this perspective : the institutionalization of anti- Semitism in the Roman Empire in the 4th century , the Iberian inquisitions beginning in the 15th century , and the National Socialist movement in Germany from ...
... anti - Semitism . " Rather , Jewish nationalism pro- voked anti - Semitism as a gentile reaction - a critical example of the reactive anti - Semitism theme of Chapters 3-5 : Modern anti - Semitism was itself a reaction to Jewish proto ...
Contents
THEMES OF ANTISEMITISM | 27 |
REACTIVE ANTISEMITISM IN | 89 |
THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD | 115 |
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Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Development Robert G. Burgess,Kevin MacDonald Limited preview - 2005 |