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Format: XIX, 222 S.

ISBN: 0-8133-2641-9 , 0-8133-2642-7

Content: Evaluating the Jewish Holocaust is by no means a simple matter, and one of the most controversial questions for academics is whether there have been any historical parallels for it. Have Armenians, Gypsies, American Indians, or others undergone a comparable genocide? In this fiercely controversial volume, distinguished scholars offer new discussions of this question. Presenting a wide range of strongly held views, they provide no easy consensus

Content: Some critics contend that if the Holocaust is seen as fundamentally different in kind from other genocides or mass deaths, the suffering of other persecuted groups will be diminished. Others argue that denying the uniqueness of the Holocaust will trivialize it. Alan Rosenbaum's introduction provides a much-needed context for readers to come to terms with this multidimensional dispute, to help them understand why it has recently intensified, and to enable them to appreciate what universal lessons might be gleaned from studying the Holocaust

Language: English

Subjects: History , Political Science , Theology , Philosophy

Keywords: Judenvernichtung ; Geschichtsschreibung ; Judenvernichtung ; Völkermord ; Geschichte ; Vergleich ; Judenvernichtung ; Völkermord ; Vergleich ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Format: VIII, 239 S.

ISBN: 0-674-47493-7

Content: Will American Jews survive their success? Or will the United States' uniquely hospitable environment lead inexorably to their assimilation and loss of cultural identity? This is the conundrum that Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab explore in their wise and learned book about the American Jewish experience. Jews, perhaps more than any ethnic or religious minority that has migrated to these shores, have benefited from the country's openness, egalitarianism and social heterogeneity. This unusually good fit, the authors argue, has as much to do with the exceptionalism of the Jewish people as with that of America. But acceptance for all ancestral groups has its downside: integration into the mainstream erodes their defining features, diluting the loyalties that sustain their members

Content: The authors vividly illustrate this paradox as it is experienced by American Jews today - in their high rates of intermarriage, their waning observance of religious rites, their extraordinary academic and professional success, their commitment to liberalism in domestic politics, and their steadfast defense of Israel. Yet Jews view these trends with a sense of foreboding: "We feel very comfortable in America - but anti-Semitism is a serious problem"; "We would be desolate if Israel were lost - but we don't feel as close to that country as we used to"; "More of our youth are seeking some serious form of Jewish affirmation and involvement but more of them are slipping away from Jewish life." These are the contradictions tormenting American Jews as they struggle anew with the never-dying problem of Jewish continuity

Content: A graceful and immensely readable work, Jews and the New American Scene provides a remarkable range of scholarship, anecdote, and statistical research - the clearest, most up-to-date account available of the dilemma facing American Jews in their third century of citizenship

Language: English

Subjects: American Studies , Political Science , Sociology

Keywords: Juden ; Juden ; Identität

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Author information: Lipset, Seymour Martin 1922-2006

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Format: 697 Seiten ; , 25 cm.

ISBN: 0-671-22682-7 , 0-671-24848-0

Note: Part one : The politics of hysteria. The Truman doctrine : Pax Americana -- The Republican catharsis -- Espionage fever : myth of the vital secret -- The states and subversion -- Part two : The machinery of repression. The Congressional inquisition -- The FBI and the informers -- The Constitution concussed in the courts -- Part three : The assault on the left. Bureaucratic persecution -- The Communist Party goes under -- Hell in Pittsburgh -- The deportation terror -- The golden curtain : passports and immigration -- Part four : purge of the Civil Service. The Federal Civil Service -- The Armed Forces : a code of dishonor -- The State Department and the China experts -- The UN, brief refuge -- State and city employees -- Part five : Pacification of the working class. How to break a union -- How to fire a worker -- United Elecrical Workers on the rack -- On the waterfront -- Part six : Purge of the professions. Purge of the "reducators" -- New York teachers on trial -- Newspapermen and libraries -- Science : sanity or "security"? -- Part seven : Show business : the blacklists. Hollywood -- Radio, television and theater -- Conclusion -- Appendix A : undercover agents -- Appendix B : The Tillett survey : the predicament of the discharged teacher -- Appendix C : The Hollywood blacklist

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science

Keywords: Antikommunismus ; 1890-1969 Eisenhower, Dwight D. ; 1884-1972 Truman, Harry S. ; MacCarthyismus ; Geschichte

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Format: XIV, 242 Seiten , 24 cm

ISBN: 9780807028421 , 9780807076910

Content: "A powerful look at the non-scientific history of "race science," and the assumptions, prejudices, and incentives that have allowed it to reemerge in contemporary science Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science. After the horrors of the Nazi regime in WWII, the mainstream scientific world turned its back on eugenics and the study of racial difference. But a worldwide network of unrepentant eugenicists quietly founded journals and funded research, providing the kind of shoddy studies that were ultimately cited in Richard Hernstein's and Charles Murray's 1994 title, The Bell Curve, which purported to show differences in intelligence among races. If the vast majority of scientists and scholars disavowed these ideas, and considered race a social construct, it was still an idea that managed to somehow make its way into the research into the human genome that began in earnest in the mid-1990s and continues today. Dissecting the statements and work of contemporary scientists studying human biodiversity, most of whom claim to be just following the data, Saini shows us how, again and again, science is retrofitted to accommodate race. Even as our understanding of highly complex traits like intelligence, and the complicated effect of environmental influences on human beings, from the molecular level on up, grows, the hope of finding simple genetic differences between "races"--to explain differing rates of disease, to explain poverty or test scores or to justify cultural assumptions--stubbornly persists. At a time when racialized nationalisms are a resurgent threat throughout the world, Superior is a powerful reminder that biologically, we are all far more alike than different

Content: "In Superior award-winning science writer Angela Saini explores the concept of race, past and present. She examines the dark roots of race research and how race has again crept gently back into science and medicine. And she investigates the people who use this research for their own political purposes, including white supremacists. They believe that populations are born different, in character and intellectually, and that this defines the success or failure of nations. It is a worldwide network of eugenicists with their own journals journals and sources of funding, providing the kind of shoddy studies that were ultimately cited in Richard Hernstein's and Charles Murray's 1994 title, The Bell Curve, which purported to show differences in intelligence among races. Taking us from Darwin through the civil rights movement to modern-day ancestry testing, Saini examines how deeply our present is influenced by our past, and the role that politics has so often had to play in our understanding of race. Superior is a powerful, rigorous, much needed examination of the insidious history and damaging consequences of race science and the unfortunate reasons behind its apparent recent resurgence across the globe

Content: After the horrors of the Nazi regime in WWII, the mainstream scientific world turned its back on eugenics and the study of racial difference. But a worldwide network of unrepentant eugenicists quietly founded journals and funded research purporting to show differences in intelligence among races. Dissecting the statements and work of contemporary scientists studying human biodiversity, Saini shows us how science is retrofitted to accommodate race. At a time when racialized nationalisms are a resurgent threat throughout the world, she presents a powerful reminder that biologically, we are all far more alike than different. -- adapted from jacket

Note: Prologue -- Deep time -- It's a small world -- Scientific priestcraft -- Inside the fold -- Race realists -- Human biodiversity -- Roots -- Origin stories -- Caste -- The illusionists -- Black pills -- Afterword

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Saini, Angela, 1980- author Superior Boston : Beacon Press, 2019 ISBN 9780807076941

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science , Sociology

Keywords: Geschichte 1945-2019 ; Rassismus ; Wissenschaft ; Eugenik ; Rasse ; Begriff

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Format: xi, 277 Seiten.

ISBN: 978-1-137-57627-9

Content: "In a riveting narrative based on accounts of her interactions with Saudi and Iranian politicians and rich archival material, a leading scholar on the Middle East unravels the mysteries of a contentious relationship. This seasoned observer of political and diplomatic worlds shatters the myth of the inevitability of sectarian conflict and that the diplomacy between Saudi Arabia and Iran is exhausted. Instead, Banafsheh Keynoush argues in Saudi Arabia and Iran: Friends or Foes? that it has yet to be explored, by recasting the partnership from a US-centered point of view to one based on how Saudi Arabia and Iran see their roles. Who is to blame and how to fix it is part of this penetrating historic account which captivates readers through accurate, non-sensational, and objective analysis. Keynoush recounts it all: the fears, misunderstandings, prejudices, and ambitions that have hobbled efforts to build a lasting partnership, creating a work that is important to both the expert and the layperson."--

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB ISBN 978-1-137-58938-5

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF ISBN 978-1-137-58939-2

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science

Keywords: Internationale Politik

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Format: 208 Seiten , Illustrationen , 21 cm x 14.8 cm, 270 g

ISBN: 9783838214887

Content: "Numerous political commentators have noted the rise of the radical right worldwide. How has the radical right responded to the COVID-19 pandemic? Has the radical right been legitimized in a world of closed borders and greater securitization? Have radical right regimes in power cracked under the strains of the crisis and thus undermined their own political fortunes? Have radical right-wing responses to COVID-19 been uniform or diversified? These are some of the questions tackled in Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic by the Radical Right.0This volume gathers a collection of short pieces, which highlight the multi-faceted ways in which right-wing and radical right-wing political forces have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. It presents research by scholars from all around the world concentrating on the evolution of radical right-wing movements since the COVID-19 crisis began and their influence on mainstream and alternative narratives. The edited volume includes case studies as well as far-reaching reports on the radical right's utilizing of the crisis to re-shape ideas about sovereignty, globalization, democracy, equality, diversity, and political legitimacy. Such studies comprise cases on gender and class, racism, religious hatred, scapegoating, anti-Semitism and Sinophobia, conspiracy theories, and online radicalization, focusing on locations as diverse as the US, Canada, Brazil, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, France, Spain, Ukraine, Latvia, Israel, and India. All such studies are compiled in a total of six chapters and an epilogue, organized thematically and by country." --

Note: COVID-19 and the radical right , How is the far right capitalizing on COVID-19? , How COVID-19 will impact the fight against the radical right , For the far right, the COVID-19 crisis is a PR opportunity , COVID-19's victims : populism , Case studies from Europe and North America , Flanders first : how COVID-19 has boosted the Flemish radical populist right , Germany : is the COVID-19 pandemic weakening the far right? , COVID-19 and the pause of far-right demonstrations in Germany , Amid COVID-19, Trump attempts to rewrite history , Will France's Marine Le Pen be a profiteer or victim of the pandemic? , How the European Union lost Italy to the radical right , After COVID-19 : will Matteo Salvini lead Europe's radical right? , COVID-19 & the (temporary) fall of the populist radical right in European politics? , The Spanish right, COVID-19 and 'socio-communism' , Tilting at windmills : the Spanish radical populist right in times of COVID-19 , COVID-19 and radical-right conspiracy theories , The oldest hatred, conspiracy theories and the COVID-19 pandemic , COVID-19 and the radical right : conspiracy, disinformation and xenophobia , The dangers of right-wing COVID-19 conspiracy theories , Apocalypse now : the conspiracy theories of the radical right , COVID-19 and the rise of racism and religious hatred , The 'other' in a time of crisis : Europe's populist radical-right response to COVID-19 , Anti-Asian racism amid COVID-19 echoes US history of blaming immigrants for disease , Canada and the 'yellow peril' conspiracy amidst COVID-19 , "#CORONAJIHAD" : how the far right in India is responding to the pandemic , COVID-19 and the radical right's transition online , Quarantined radicals : right-wing extremism in the age of COVID-19 , Zoom-bombing and the far right's latest assault on college communities , The risks of online radicalization in the COVID-19 era , The influence of memes on far-right radicalisation , COVID-19, class and gender , Appropriating 'choice' : uses of gendered discourse in 're-open' protests , Gender and mainstreaming in the era of COVID-19 : Swedish exceptionalism & the radical right , Contesting class in the lockdown protests

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science , Sociology

Keywords: COVID-19 ; Pandemie ; Rechtsradikalismus ; Aufsatzsammlung

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