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HUMAN ARCHITECTURE
Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge


Volume VII • Issue 2 • Spring 2009

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Historicizing Anti-Semitism

Proceedings of the International Conference on the Post-September 11th New Ethnic/Racial Configurations in Europe and the United States: The Case of Anti-Semitism Maison des Science de l'Home (MSH) Paris, June 29-30, 2007

Journal Editor:
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, UMass Boston

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Issue Co-Editors:
Lewis R. Gordon, Temple University
Ramón Grosfoguel, U.C. Berkeley
Eric Mielants, Fairfield University

The articles collected in this Spring 2009 (VII, 2) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge entitled "Historicizing Anti-Semitism" were part of an international conference entitled, “The Post-September 11 New Ethnic/Racial Configurations in Europe and the United States: The Case of Anti-Semitism,” organized by Lewis Gordon and Ramón Grosfoguel at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH) in Paris on June 29–30, 2007. Part of a series inaugurated by a discussion on Islamophobia, they brought a majority Jewish group of scholars together in the hope of bringing to the forum a critical exchange and conversation among the participants. The articles gathered here do not represent a unified voice but those often unheard in discussions of anti-Semitism. The focus on anti-Semitism in this collection raises the question of how ancient and Medieval versions of anti-Jewish practices should be interpreted, especially since even the term “Semite” came about as an effort in eighteenth-century French and German scholarship to organize Arabic, Aramaic, and Hebrew under a single linguistic nomenclature, which was crystallized in the nineteenth century in the work of the French scholar Ernest Renan. Contributores include: Lewis R. Gordon, Ramón Grosfoguel, Eric Mielants, David Ost, James Cohen, Santiago E. Slabodsky, Rabson Wuriga, Walter Mignolo, Ramón Grosfoguel, Marc H. Ellis, Etienne Balibar, Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Martine Chard-Hutchinson, Michael Löwy, Jean-Paul Rocchi and Mohammad H. Tamdgidi.


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ISBN-13: 978-1-888024-54-8 eBook PDF
ISBN-10: 1-888024-33-X paperback
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ISSN: 1540-5699
Number of Pages: 192
Publisher: Okcir Press (2009 pb) (2012 eb)
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 7x10 inches


Contents
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Historicizing Anti-Semitism

Proceedings of the International Conference on the Post-September 11th New Ethnic/Racial Configurations in Europe and the United States: The Case of Anti-Semitism Maison des Science de l'Home (MSH) Paris, June 29-30, 2007


vii—Editor’s Note: Historicizing Anti-Semitism
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, University of Massachusetts Boston

1—Global Anti-Semitism in World-Historical Perspective: An Introduction
Issue Co-Editors: Lewis R. Gordon, Temple University; Ramón Grosfoguel, U.C. Berkeley;
and
Eric Mielants, Fairfield University

15—Anti-Semitism in the Peculiar Context of Eastern Europe
David Ost, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

23—The Accusation of Anti-Semitism as Moral Blackmail:
Conservative Jews in France and the Israel-Palestinian Conflict

James Cohen, Université de Paris VIII, France

35—“But there are no longer any anti-Semites!”:
Vicious Circles, Jewish Destinies, and a Complementary Framework to Read De-colonial Discourses

Santiago E. Slabodsky, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

53—Role and Impact of Intellectual Factor in the 18th-20th Centuries’
European Conception of ‘Jews as Jews’: A Revisitation

Rabson Wuriga, Temple University

69—Dispensable and Bare Lives:
Coloniality and The Hidden Political/Economic Agenda of Modernity

Walter Mignolo, Duke University

89—Human Rights and Anti-Semitism after GAZA
Ramón Grosfoguel, University of California, Berkeley

103—On Jewish Particularity and Anti-Semitism:
Notes From a Jewish Theology of Liberation

Marc H. Ellis, Baylor University

123—“God will not remain silent”: Zionism, Messianism and Nationalism
Etienne Balibar, University of Paris, France

135—Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: The Formation of a Secret
Ivan Davidson Kalmar, University of Toronto, Canada

145—‘Perpetual Fear’: Repetition and Fantasy in The Plot against America by Philip Roth
Martine Chard-Hutchinson, Institut Charles V- Université Paris Diderot, France

151—Franz Kafka’s Trial and the Anti-Semitic Trials of His Time
Michael Löwy, CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), France

159—Dying Metaphors and Deadly Fantasies: Freud, Baldwin and Race as Intimacy
Jean-Paul Rocchi, Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7), France