Saying No to Hate
Jewish Publication Society (Verlag)
978-0-8276-1523-6 (ISBN)
Saying No to Hate grounds readers contextually in the history of antisemitism in America by emphasizing the legal, political, educational, communal, and other strategies American Jews have used through the centuries to address high-profile threats.
Norman H. Finkelstein shows how antisemitism has long functioned in America in systemic, structural, and interpersonal ways, from missionaries, the KKK, and American Nazis to employment discrimination, social media attacks, and QAnon. He explains how historic antisemitic events such as General Ulysses S. Grant’s General Order No. 11 (1862); the Massena, New York blood libel (1928); and the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue (2018) galvanized the Jewish community. Finkelstein shines light on Jews such as Louis Brandeis and Admiral Hyman Rickover who succeeded despite discrimination and on individuals and organizations that have tackled legal and security affairs, from the passage of Maryland’s Jew Bill (1826) to groups helping Jewish institutions better protect themselves from active shooter threats.
Far from a victim narrative, Saying No to Hate is as much about Jewish resilience and ingenuity as it is about hatred. Engaging high school students and adults with personal narratives, it prepares each of us to recognize, understand, and confront injustice and hatred today, in the Jewish community and beyond.
Norman H. Finkelstein (1941–2024) taught Jewish history at Hebrew College for more than thirty-five years and is the author of twenty-one nonfiction histories and biographies. Two of his books, Heeding the Call and Forged in Freedom (both available from JPS), won National Jewish Book Awards.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why This Book
1. Origins of Hate
2. In the Beginning
3. Settling In
4. A Country Divided
5. The Great Wave
6. A Lynching and a Lawyer
7. The Bigoted 1920s
8. The Rising Storm
9. Into the Mainstream
10. Civil Rights and Legal Rights
11. Zionism = Judaism?
12. The Changing Landscape of Hate
Appendix 1: How to Fight Antisemitism with Advocacy and Pride
Appendix 2: How to Prepare for an Active Shooter Attack
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.03.2024 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 15 photographs, 3 illustrations, 2 appendixes, index |
| Verlagsort | Philadelphia |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8276-1523-X / 082761523X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8276-1523-6 / 9780827615236 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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