Steven Leonard Jacobs - Antisemitism: Exploring the Issues

Adversus Judaeos

al-Banna, Hassan

al-Husseini, Amin

Alt-Right

Barnes, Harry Elmer

BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) Movement

Beilis Affair

Blood Libel

Carto, Willis

Christian Identity

Coughlin, Charles E.

Crusades

Deicide

Dreyfus Affair

Duke, David

Farhud

Farrakhan, Louis

Fascism

Faurisson, Robert

Frank Trial and Lynching

Goldstein, Baruch

Holocaust

Holocaust, Denial of

Icke, David

Intersectionality

Irving, David

Kristallnacht

Ku Klux Klan

Luther, Martin

Marr, Wilhelm

Martyrdom, Sanctifying the Name of God

National Socialism/Nazism

Nationalism

Oberammergau Passion Play

Pierce, William Luther

Pius XII, Pope

Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion

Proud Boys

Qutb, Sayyid

Rassinier, Paul

Rockwell, George Lincoln

Social Darwinism

Spanish Inquisition

Usury

Wagner, Richard

White Supremacy

World Church of the Creator

Yockey, Francis Parker

About the Author

STEVEN LEONARD JACOBS returned to the Department of Religious Studies as an associate professor and the Aaron Aronov Chair of Judaic Studies on January 1, 2001, and received tenure as of August 2004. He was promoted to full professor as of August 2017. He received his BA from Penn State University and his BHL, MAHL, DHL, DD, and rabbinic ordination from the Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute of Religion. As a resident of Alabama for four decades, he taught at Spring Hill College in Mobile; the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham-Southern College, and Samford University in Birmingham; and the University of Alabama in Huntsville and Calhoun Community College in Huntsville. He also served congregations in Birmingham, Mobile, Huntsville, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and in Dallas, Texas.

Dr. Jacobss primary research foci are in biblical studies, translation and interpretation, including the Dead Sea Scrolls; Jewish-Christian relations; and Holocaust and genocide studies. His books include Shirot Bialik: A New and Annotated Translation of Chaim Nachman Bialiks Epic Poems (1987); Raphael Lemkins Thoughts on Nazi Genocide: Not Guilty? (1992); Contemporary Christian and Contemporary Jewish Religious Responses to the Shoah (2 volumes, 1993, editor); Rethinking Jewish Faith: The Child of a Survivor Responds (1994); The Meaning of Persons and Things Jewish: Contemporary Explorations and Interpretations (1996); The Holocaust Now: Contemporary Christian and Jewish Thought (1997, editor); The Encyclopedia of Genocide (2 volumes, 2000, associate editor); Pioneers of Genocide Studies (2002, coeditor); The Biblical Masorah and the Temple Scroll: An Orthographical Inquiry (2002); Dismantling the Big Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (2003, coauthor); Post-Shoah Dialogues: Re-Thinking Our Texts Together (2004, coauthor); The Jewish Experience: An Introduction to Jewish History and Jewish Life (2010); Fifty Key Thinkers on Holocaust and Genocide (2012, coauthor); and Lemkin on Genocide (2013, editor). He has also authored more than fifty referred articles in a wide variety of professional publications as well as numerous book reviews.

Dr. Jacobss professional and civic involvements have included the Alabama Holocaust Commission; the Board of Advisors for the Center for American & Jewish Studies, Baylor University, Waco, Texas; the international editor of the Papers of Raphael Lemkin; the International Advisory Board of the Centre for Comparative Genocide Studies, Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia; the Editorial Board of Studies in the Shoah, University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland; the Editorial Board of Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History and Science, Monkton, Maryland; an Educational Consultant to the Center on the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Board of Advisors of the Aegis Trust for the Prevention of Genocide, England; and the Associate Editor of the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism. He is also coeditor of the online database Modern Genocide: Understanding Causes and Consequences (ABC-CLIO) and the four-volume encyclopedia Modern Genocide: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection (2014, ABC-CLIO). (Modern Genocide has received two national awards: 2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title and 2015 Outstanding Reference Source, Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of the American Library Association (ALA).)

Dr. Jacobs regularly teaches REL 101 (The Violent and the Sacred: Religion and the Problem of Human Suffering), REL 110 (Introduction to the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible), REL 223 (The Holocaust in Historical Perspective), REL 224 (Introduction to Judaism), REL 238 (Philosophies of Judaism), REL 332 (Figures in Contemporary Jewish Thought), REL 347 (Jewish-Christian Relations), REL 372a (Religions, Politics, and Cultures of the Middle East), REL 372b (Antisemitism and the Crises of Modernity), and REL 410 (Religion and Genocide).

Included here are books, multivolume series, journals, DVDs, websites, and institutions and organizations.

Books

Aizenberg, Salo. Hatemail: Anti-Semitism in Picture Postcards. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2013.

This graphic collection of postcards, beginning in the 1890s through the Holocaust and beyond, is a reminder that antisemitism did not begin with World War II and Adolf Hitler; it was used even earlier by politicians, journalists, and rabble-rousers to defame the Jewish people and Judaism.

Almog, Shmuel, ed. Antisemitism through the Ages. Oxford and New York: Pergamon Press, 1988.

This book presents a collection of essays that address the question of antisemitism throughout Jewish history: in antiquity, in the Middle Ages, in the Christian world, in Muslim countries, and in the twentieth century. It examines and assesses not only the various forms and manifestations of antisemitism in history but also the diverse interpretations that have been placed on it by scholars and others.

Battini, Michele. Socialism of Fools: Capitalism and Modern Anti-Semitism. Translated by Noor Mazhar and Isabella Vergnano. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.

This volume focuses on the critical moment during the Enlightenment in which anti-Jewish stereotypes morphed into a sophisticated, modern social antisemitism. It examines the anti-Jewish anti-capitalist propaganda that cemented the idea of a Jewish conspiracy in the European mind and connects it to the atrocities that characterized the Jewish experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Baum, Steven K. Antisemitism Explained. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2012.

Baum guides the reader through the social mind and explains how the formation of social beliefs can be used as a narrative to determine reality. He offers a new perspective regarding how antisemitic legends and folk beliefs form the basis of our ongoing social narrative.

Baum, Steven K., Keil J. Kressel, Florette Cohn-Abady, and Steven Leonard Jacobs, eds. Antisemitism in North America: New World, Old Hate. Leiden, Netherlands, and Boston: Brill, 2016.

The editors have brought together an array of scholars from diverse disciplines and political orientations to assess the condition of the Jews in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. They offer perspectives of why the Jewish experience in North America has neither been free from antisemitism nor ever so unwelcoming and dangerous as the countries from which they came.