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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... converted to Christianity but continued to marry among themselves , although daughters were commonly married into the gentile nobility ( W. E. Mosse 1987 , 37 ) . Such behavior by a nominally converted group of Jews ( who are in effect ...
... converted to Judaism before the conception occurred . The references to " impure blood " in this responsum , however , would , on the face of it , appear to indicate that it was the doubt about genetic relationships that resulted in the ...
... converted ( viz . Jews by Choice ) . Two - thirds of Jews by Choice were women , and 70 percent had formally converted to Judaism . Almost all of the children of these marriages were being raised as Jews . Thus the predominant pattern ...
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 |