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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... immigration prior to and during the war . The same can be said for Canada , as recounted by Abella and Troper ( 1982 ) in their book None Is Too Many - the title coming from a statement of a senior Canadian immigration official that ...
... immigration ( e.g. , the National Liberal Immigration League ; the Citizens Committee for Displaced Persons ; the National Commission on Immigration and Citizenship ; the Ameri- can Immigration Conference ; see The Culture of Critique ) ...
... immigration into Great Britain , illustrated by an examination of Russian and Polish Jewish children . Annals of Eugenics 1 : 5-127 . Peli , P. H. ( 1991 ) . Response to anti - Semitism in Midrashic literature . In Anti - Semitism in ...
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 |