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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... population . Similar examples have occurred in modern times . During World War I , Rus- sian suspicions that Jewish subjects favored Germany in the war effort resulted in eviction of Jews from the zone of combat ( Pipes 1990 , 231 ) ...
... population , consists of Contributors and Consumers who are even less affiliated with organized Judaism , but make ... population in the United States . Kosmin et al . ( 1993 ) find that 33 percent of the " Core Jewish Population ...
... population ; the total Orthodox population is about 12 percent of the total worldwide Jewish population ( Landau 1993 , xxi – xxii , 22ff ) . ( Heilman [ 1992 , 12 ] estimates the number of Haredim at 550,000 . ) Orthodox Jewish leaders ...
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 |