Guest Editors’ Introduction: Trump and the “Jewish Question”

Lévi,; Rothberg,

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“…This inclusion of Israel is based on an understanding of Zionism as a political assimilation into pan-european white supranationalist statism, such that Richard Spencer "has frequently expressed his admiration for Zionism and the State of Israel, seeing them as positive 'models' for the ethno-nationalism he supports. " 68 Furthermore, the development of Israeli nationalism was modeled alongside the development of pan-european nation-statism, so much so that Yitzhak Baer claimed in 1947 that the nationalism of the Jewish people "is the original sacred model for all the national ideas of Europe. " 69 This alliance of Israel with the larger pan-european white supranationalism can be further understood through analysis in The Arab Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity.…”

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Critical Pedagogical Jewish Studies: Whiteness, Racism, and Jewish Ethno/National Fissures

Ingenthron¹

2023

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Critical pedagogy makes for an enriched approach to Jewish Studies because of shared principles and values also found in Jewish traditions and teachings. The first step of critical pedagogy is to pose the world as a problem. This article agrees with scholarship suggesting that whiteness and racism are fundamental problems of our time. After synthesizing Jewish Studies with a critical pedagogical approach that focuses on the problems of whiteness and racism, the next important step in critical pedagogy is reflection—in this instance, reflection on the relationship between Judaism, whiteness, and racism. This article uses critical whiteness studies as a theoretical framework for reflecting on these relationships. There are two overarching schools of thought in critical whiteness studies—one being that whiteness can be rearticulated to "antiracist white," and the other arguing that whiteness must be abolished. The following article builds upon the latter, making a proposal for one way that Judaism might contribute to liberation movements led by Black, Indigenous and People of Color toward the abolition of whiteness and racism. Finally, the article explores cultural action, the third step of critical pedagogy, at the ideological and material levels. Bringing critical whiteness studies to Jewish Studies reveals one of the many possible ways that Judaism can help to dismantle whiteness and racism.

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Critical Pedagogical Jewish Studies: Whiteness, Racism, and Jewish Ethno/National Fissures

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2023

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“…1 My main claim below is that, in Moses and Monotheism, Freud focuses on the two central tenets of the Jewish Question: understanding the core features of Jewish identity, on the one hand, and explaining the pervasiveness of antisemitism within Western culture, on the other. At its best, the way Freud raises these issues allows him, theoretically, to challenge modern conceptions of secularisation as linear progress (Chernilo, 2023); historically, to interrogate the origins and trajectory of Judaism as a religion, first, and as a cultural marker later on (Batnitzky, 2011); and, politically, to explain why antisemitism continues to be such a major issue for political ideologies and parties on both the right and the left (Hirsh, 2017;Levi and Rothberg, 2020). More than scrutinising Freud's texts to the letter, therefore, my strategy here is to think through these questions with as well as beyond Freud's own insights.…”

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The Jews Killed Moses: Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Question

Chernilo

2023

Theory, Culture & Society

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Freud completed his last book, on Moses and Monotheism, in 1939, while in his London exile. Its publication was deemed untimely, as its two main theses could be construed as a form of Jewish self-hatred. The first claim questions Moses’ Jewish origins and contends that the founder of the Jews was in fact an Egyptian; the second suggests that the Jews killed Moses and then created his myth as a coping mechanism for concealing their terrible deed. In this article, I contend that Moses and Monotheism can be read as Freud’s intervention in debates on the ‘Jewish Question’. After revisiting Freud’s original argument (I), I assess its reception among leading Jewish intellectuals of the 20th century (II). I then use Freud’s arguments to look at the two key themes of the Jewish Question: understanding the defining features of Jewish identity (III) and the pervasiveness of antisemitism in Western culture (IV).

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Philo-Semitic Civilisationism or Anti-Semitic Nationalism? The Ambivalent Stance of the Alternative for Germany Towards Judaism, Jews, and Israel

Selent,

Kortmann

2023

German Politics

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Guest Editors’ Introduction: Trump and the “Jewish Question”

Cited by 3 publications

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Critical Pedagogical Jewish Studies: Whiteness, Racism, and Jewish Ethno/National Fissures

Critical Pedagogical Jewish Studies: Whiteness, Racism, and Jewish Ethno/National Fissures

The Jews Killed Moses: Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Question

Philo-Semitic Civilisationism or Anti-Semitic Nationalism? The Ambivalent Stance of the Alternative for Germany Towards Judaism, Jews, and Israel

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