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On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred
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ISBN: 1280494204 9786613589439 1400841887 9781400841882 9780691119229 0691119228 9781280494208 Year: 2012 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Today, the term "Jewish self-hatred" often denotes a treasonous brand of Jewish self-loathing, and is frequently used as a smear, such as when it is applied to politically moderate Jews who are critical of Israel. In On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred, Paul Reitter demonstrates that the concept of Jewish self-hatred once had decidedly positive connotations. He traces the genesis of the term to Anton Kuh, a Viennese-Jewish journalist who coined it in the aftermath of World War I, and shows how the German-Jewish philosopher Theodor Lessing came, in 1930, to write a book that popularized "Jewish self-hatred." Reitter contends that, as Kuh and Lessing used it, the concept of Jewish self-hatred described a complex and possibly redemptive way of being Jewish. Paradoxically, Jews could show the world how to get past the blight of self-hatred only by embracing their own, singularly advanced self-critical tendencies--their "Jewish self-hatred.? Provocative and elegantly argued, On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred challenges widely held notions about the history and meaning of this idea, and explains why its history is so badly misrepresented today.

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Self-hate (Psychology) --- Antisemitism --- Self-hatred (Psychology) --- Hate --- Self-perception --- Psychological aspects. --- Adage. --- Adolf Loos. --- Afrikan Spir. --- Alfred Kerr. --- Anti-Zionism. --- Anti-imperialism. --- Anti-nationalism. --- Antisemitism (authors). --- Antisemitism. --- Anxiety of influence. --- Bildung. --- Bildungsroman. --- Boris Groys. --- Buddenbrooks. --- Consciousness. --- Counter-revolutionary. --- Cultural pessimism. --- Defamation. --- Deportation. --- Edmund Husserl. --- Erudition. --- Erving Goffman. --- Feuilleton. --- Franz Kafka. --- Franz Werfel. --- Fritz Haarmann. --- German Forest. --- German nationalism. --- Germans. --- Gershom Scholem. --- Gustav Wyneken. --- Hans Gross. --- Hans Mayer. --- Hatred. --- Heinrich Heine. --- Heinrich von Kleist. --- Highbrow. --- His Family. --- Houston Stewart Chamberlain. --- Hugo Bettauer. --- Humiliation. --- Hypocrisy. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Jakob Wassermann. --- Jewish assimilation. --- Jewish guilt. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- Karl Kraus (writer). --- Kurt Tucholsky. --- Lecture. --- Lessing. --- Ludwig Klages. --- Ludwig Wittgenstein. --- Martin Buber. --- Modern Paganism. --- Modernity. --- Moses Mendelssohn. --- Narrative. --- Novelist. --- Oedipus complex. --- On the Jewish Question. --- Oppression. --- Oswald Spengler. --- Otto Gross. --- Otto Weininger. --- Pacifism. --- Paul Heyse. --- Persecution. --- Pessimism. --- Philosophy. --- Pity. --- Pogrom. --- Polemic. --- Prejudice. --- Prostitution. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Rainer Maria Rilke. --- Ridicule. --- Rudolf Steiner. --- Satire. --- Self-consciousness. --- Self-criticism. --- Self-hating Jew. --- Self-hatred. --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- The Decline of the West. --- The Other Hand. --- The Philosopher. --- The Pity of It All. --- Theodor Fritsch. --- Theodor Lessing. --- Theodor. --- Thomas Mann. --- Thought. --- Vladimir Nabokov. --- Walter Benjamin. --- Writing. --- Zionism. --- Jews --- History. --- Lessing, Theodor,

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