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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... status . because of their unquestioned loyalty to the regime - a loyalty deriving from the fact that their status was entirely dependent on the gentile elite . A 19th - century account of the entry of Jews into England presents a very ...
... status individuals ( see below and PTSDA , Ch . 1 ) . While the National Socialist movement retained traditional hierarchical Western social structure , the internal cohesiveness and altruism characteristic of National Socialism may ...
... status males . At the extreme , if the lower - status male is a slave , cooperation and self - sacrifice are expected to only occur as the result of coercion ( see also PTSDA , Ch . 1 ) . The appeal of asceticism among leaders would be ...
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 |