The Holocaust, Israel and 'the Jew' - Remco Ensel; Evelien Gans
histories of Antisemitism in postwar Dutch Society
KORTE INHOUD
Thinking of Holland, would you believe that, in 1934, the Dutch government implemented two new law sections, especially because abuses against Jews got a kind of 'epidemic character'? The contrast between the traditional image of Dutch tolerance and the high number of Jewish deportees during World War II has created the notion of the 'Dutch paradox'. During the German occupation antisemitism grew, and burst into the open after the liberation. Illustrative was the insult 'They have forgotten to gas you', a first, radical expression of how, after 1945, the Shoah or Holocaust was turned against the Jews.
In the eighties the identification of 'the Jew' and the gas chamber spread from the streets to chants in football stadiums, to pamphlets and satire. Subsequently it showed up in anti-Israel demonstrations in the slogan 'Hamas, Hamas, all the Jews to the gas'. A variety of antisemitic manifestations among Dutch Moroccans and Turks prove that traditional and new anti-Jewish stereotypes blended also among migrant co...
In the eighties the identification of 'the Jew' and the gas chamber spread from the streets to chants in football stadiums, to pamphlets and satire. Subsequently it showed up in anti-Israel demonstrations in the slogan 'Hamas, Hamas, all the Jews to the gas'. A variety of antisemitic manifestations among Dutch Moroccans and Turks prove that traditional and new anti-Jewish stereotypes blended also among migrant co...
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2017Uitgever: Amsterdam University Press598 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 9462986088ISBN-13: 9789462986084Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2017, 598pp, paperback, goed exemplaar / good copy [Auteur: Ensel, Remco, Gans, Evelien] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: AUP] [Jaar: 2017] [Titel: The Holocaust, Israel and 'the Jew' / histories of Antisemitism in postwar Dutch Society]
