Antisemitism and the American Far Left

Stephen H. Norwood has written the first systematic study of the American far left's role in both propagating and combating antisemitism. This book covers Communists from 1920 onward, Trotskyists, the New Left and its black nationalist allies, and the contemporary remnants of the New Left. Professor Norwood analyzes the deficiencies of the American far left's explanations of Nazism and the Holocaust. He explores far left approaches to militant Islam, from condemnation of its fierce antisemitism in the 1930s to recent apologies for jihad. Norwood discusses the far left's use of long-standing theological and economic antisemitic stereotypes that the far right also embraced. The study analyzes the far left's antipathy to Jewish culture, as well as its occasional efforts to promote it. He considers how early Marxist and Bolshevik paradigms continued to shape American far left views of Jewish identity, Zionism, Israel, and antisemitism.

Author: Stephen H. Norwood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 08/19/2013
Pages: 324
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781107657007
ISBN10: 1107657008
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 20th Century
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social