Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Historical Perspective: Convergence and Divergence PDF
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Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Historical Perspective ThisbookpresentsthereflectionsofhistoriansfromIsrael,Europe,CanadaandtheUnitedStates concerning the similarities and differences between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism primarily in Europe and the Middle East. Spanning the past century, the essays explore the continuum of critique from early challenges to Zionism and they offer criteria to ascertain when criticism with particular policies has and has not coalesced into an “ism” of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. Including studies of England, France, Germany, Poland, the United States, Iran and Israel, the volume also examines the elements of continuity and break in European traditions of anti- Semitism and anti-Zionism when they diffused to the Arab and Islamic. This book was previously published as a special issue of The Journal of Israeli History. JeffreyHerfisProfessorofModernEuropeanHistoryattheUniversityofMarylandinCollegePark. This page intentionally left blank Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Historical Perspective Convergence and Divergence Edited by Jeffrey Herf Firstpublished2007byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon,OX144RN SimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanada byRoutledge 270MadisonAve,NewYork,NY10016 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness q2007Taylor&FrancisLtd TypesetinMinion10.5/13ptbytheAldenGroup,Oxford PrintedandboundinGreatBritainby AntonyRoweLtd,Chippenham,Wiltshire Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,nowknown orhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinany informationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthe publishers. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Acatalogrecordforthisbookhasbeenrequested ISBN100-415-40069-4 ISBN13978-0-415-40069-5 C O N T E N T S Convergence andDivergence: Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Historical Perspective Editor:JEFFREY HERF Acknowledgments viii Introduction JEFFREY HERF x 1 Anti-Semites onZionism: FromIndifference to Obsession DEREK J. PENSLAR 1 2 CanThereBe a Principled Anti-Zionism? Onthe Nexus between Anti-Historicism and Anti-Zionism in Modern Jewish Thought DAVID N. MYERS 20 3 Readjusting Cultural Codes: Reflectionson Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism SHULAMIT VOLKOV 38 4 Convergence: The ClassicCase Nazi Germany, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism during World War II JEFFREY HERF 50 5 An Inseparable Tandem of EuropeanIdentity?Anti-Americanism and Anti-Semitism in the Shortand Long Run ANDREI S. MARKOVITS 71 6 FromCowardsand Subversivesto Aggressors and QuestionableAllies: US ArmyPerceptions of Zionism sinceWorld War I JOSEPH W. BENDERSKY 92 7 Anti-Zionism in Britain, 1922–2002: Continuitiesand Discontinuities DAVID CESARANI 115 8 The French Radical Right:FromAnti-Semitic Zionism to Anti-Semitic Anti-Zionism PIERRE BIRNBAUM 145 v vi Contents 9 Anti-Zionism as aMultipurposePolicyInstrument: The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland, 1967–1968 DARIUSZ STOLA 159 10 Ideology andRealpolitik:East German Attitudes towardsZionism and Israel ANGELIKATIMM 186 11 Israeland the International Legal Arena ARIEH J. KOCHAVI 206 12 Israeli Perceptions of Anti-Semitism andAnti-Zionism ANITA SHAPIRA 228 13 The Islamic Republicof Iran andthe Holocaust:Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism MEIR LITVAK 250 Index 269 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments I would like to thank the following people and institutions who contributed to the conference entitled “Convergence and Divergence: Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism inHistoricalPerspective”,heldfrom24to25March2004atBrandeisUniversity.Ithas beenapleasuretoworkwithAnitaShapiraandDerekPenslarinshapingthethemes and inviting contributors to the conference. The conference was made possible with financialandinstitutionalsupportfromtheChaimWeizmannInstitutefortheStudy ofZionismandIsraelatTelAvivUniversity,theSarnatCenterfor theStudyofAnti- Jewishness at Brandeis University, and the American Jewish Committee (AJC). ProfessorsSusannahHeschel,JerryMullerandAnsonRabinbachservedasmoderators onseveralpanelsandmadevaluablecontributionstoconferencediscussions.Thanks arealsoduetoStevenBaymeoftheAJCforhiscommentsattheconference,aswellas for facilitating support from the AJC. Sylvia Fuks Fried, executive director of the TauberInstitute atBrandeis,superblyhandledthedetailsofthe conference.Philippa Shimrat,theassistanteditorofthisjournal,hasexpertlyguidedthisvolumeonitsway to completion. Thanks most of all to the contributors to this conference, who wrote fine papers and responded quickly and thoughtfully to this editor’s suggestions and comments. Jeffrey Herf viii This page intentionally left blank
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