Tears of History: The Rise of Political Antisemitism in the United States

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Pierre Birnbaum (Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology) Karen Santos Da Silva (Lecturer of French Language and Lit)

Tears of History

The Rise of Political Antisemitism in the United States

Pierre Birnbaum (Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology), Karen Santos Da Silva (Lecturer of French Language and Lit)

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Columbia University Press
02 October 2023

Social & cultural history; Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict; Social discrimination; Jewish studies

Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

"For many Jews, for more than a century, the United States has seemed to be a safe haven. There has been antisemitic prejudice, but nothing on the scale of the discrimination, persecution, pogroms, and genocide witnessed in Europe. White American ethnic violence has assailed many targets, but Jews have rarely been among them. Observing what he took to be an American exception, the influential historian Salo Baron challenged the ""lachrymose conception"" of Jewish history as an unending flow of oppressions, and many have followed him in seeing American Jews as sheltered from violence. But in recent years a spate of antisemitic attacks has cast doubt on this rosy view.

The eminent French scholar Pierre Birnbaum offers a timely reconsideration of the tear-stained pages of Jewish history and the persistence of antisemitism. He explores the promise of American tolerance as well as the darkest moments of American intolerance, such as the 1913 lynching of Leo Frank. Birnbaum engages deeply with Baron's views about Jewish history and tracks the echoes of European antisemitic violence in American culture. He argues that a new and insidious form of antisemitic ideology has arisen, one that sees the state as an instrument of Jewish control-and threatens further bloodshed. Thoughtful and eloquent, Tears of History is an important reflection on the roots of antisemitic violence and hatred."

By: Pierre Birnbaum (Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology)
Translated by: Karen Santos Da Silva (Lecturer of French Language and Lit)
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9780231209618
ISBN 10: 0231209614
Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 02 October 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface to the American Edition Introduction: On American Happiness 1. Salo Baron, the Golden Country and the Refusal of a Lachrymose History 2. The Leo Frank Affair: The Lynching of a Jew 3. From the Jew Deal to the Storming of the Capitol Conclusion: Kishinev à l’américaine—the End of Hope? Notes Index

Pierre Birnbaum is a historian and political sociologist who is professor emeritus at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His books in English include Paths of Emancipation: Jews, States, and Citizenship (coedited with Ira Katznelson, 1995), Jewish Destinies: Citizenship, State, and Community in Modern France (2000), The Anti-Semitic Moment: A Tour of France in 1898 (2011), and Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist (2015). Karen Santos Da Silva teaches French language and literature at Barnard College and is a professional translator who specializes in literary scholarship.

Reviews for Tears of History: The Rise of Political Antisemitism in the United States

With characteristic understanding, learning, and historical range, Pierre Birnbaum compellingly illuminates central aspects-past and present-of the American Jewish experience. Tears of History provocatively chronicles how antistate white supremacist insurgencies have come to target Jews, transforming prior circumstances in which political antisemitism had proved incapable in the United States to a situation Birnbaum compares to the status of Jews in Weimar Germany and Dreyfus-era France. -- Ira Katznelson, author of <i>Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time</i>