Laurence Weinbaum on Poland’s Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present, by Joanna Beata Michlic
The Power of Hate
Poland’s Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present, by Joanna Beata Michlic, University of Nebraska Press, 2007, 386 pp.
Reviewed by Laurence Weinbaum
Rolf Behrens on Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviets’ Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War, by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez
Exploring the Six Day War’s Soviet Angle
Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviets’ Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War, by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, Yale University Press, 2007, 287 pp.
Reviewed by Rolf Behrens
Simon Erlanger on Insel der Aufklärung: Israel im Kontext, vol. 3, Schriften zur politischen Bildung, Kultur und Kommunikation (Island of Enlightenment: Israel in Context, vol. 3, Papers on Political
Israel in Context
Insel der Aufklärung: Israel im Kontext, vol. 3, Schriften zur politischen Bildung, Kultur und Kommunikation (Island of Enlightenment: Israel in Context, vol. 3, Papers on Political Education, Culture and Communication), edited by Alexandra Kurth, Netzwerk für politische Bildung, Kultur und Kommunikation (NBKK), 2005, 232 pp.
Reviewed by Simon Erlanger
Shalom Freedman on The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control, by Abraham H. Foxman
Lies about the Lobby
The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control, by Abraham H. Foxman, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 256 pp.
Reviewed by Shalom Freedman
Sarah Schmidt on Bearing False Witness: Jimmy Carter’s Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, edited by CAMERA
CAMERA Fights Back
Bearing False Witness: Jimmy Carter’s Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, edited by CAMERA: Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, 2007, 99 pp.
Reviewed by Sarah Schmidt
Asaf Romirowsky on Academics against Israel and the Jews, by Manfred Gerstenfeld
Maligning Israel on Campus
Academics against Israel and the Jews, by Manfred Gerstenfeld, JCPA, 2007, 276 pp.
Reviewed by Asaf Romirowsky
Amnon Lord on Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism, and the Roots of 9/11, by Matthias Küntzel
An Urgent Wakeup Call
Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism, and the Roots of 9/11, by Matthias Küntzel, trans. Colin Meade, Telos Press, 2007, 180 pp.
Reviewed by Amnon Lord
Herbert Eiteneier on Ausgrenzung. Vertreibung. Völkermord. Genozid im 20. Jahrhundert (Exclusion. Expulsion. Genocide. Genocide in the Twentieth Century), by Wolfgang Benz
An Overview of Atrocity
Ausgrenzung. Vertreibung. Völkermord. Genozid im 20. Jahrhundert
(Exclusion. Expulsion. Genocide. Genocide in the Twentieth Century), by Wolfgang Benz, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2006, 190 pp. [German]
Reviewed by Herbert Eiteneier
Manfred Gerstenfeld on The Jews Are Coming Back: The Return of the Jews to Their Countries of Origin after WWII
European Anti-Semitism Remained after the War
The Jews Are Coming Back: The Return of the Jews to Their Countries of Origin after WWII, edited by David Bankier, Yad Vashem and Berghahn Books, 2005, 319 pp.
Reviewed by Manfred Gerstenfeld
Sarah Schmidt on Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America, by Andre S. Markovits
"Uncouth" Nation, or Just a Powerful One?
Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America, by Andre S. Markovits, Princeton University Press, 2007, 275 pp.
Reviewed by Sarah Schmidt
Holocaust Trivialization
Holocaust trivialization is one among various categories of Holocaust distortion. It is a tool for some ideologically or politically motivated activists to metaphorically compare phenomena they oppose to the industrial-scale destruction of the Jews in World War II by Germans, Austrians, and their allies. Examples include environmental problems, abortion, the slaughter of animals, the use of tobacco, and human rights abuses.
From the Editors
This issue opens with an assessment by Steven Bayme of the development of American Jewry’s relationship to Israel. American Jewish leadership helped frame the ongoing special relationship between the United States and Israel, especially since 1967. The main tensions between Israel and American Jewry concern the issues of personal status as well as religious pluralism. Nevertheless, the pro-Israeli consensus has held firm over the sixty years since Israel’s establishment.
The Jewish Communities of the Western United States
Twenty-five percent of all American Jews live in the Western United States. They represent a distinctive and growing voice within Jewish life.
Online Antisemitism 2.0. “Social Antisemitism” on the “Social Web”
Around 2004, changes in technology created Web 2.0.[1] As technology adapted, so did online antisemitism. With the new “social web” came a new “social antisemitism.” This Antisemitism 2.0 is the use of online social networking and content collaboration to share demonization, conspiracy theories, Holocaust denial, and classical antisemitic motifs with a view to creating social acceptability for such content.
How Will the IDF Confront Regional Threats? – A Strategic Overview
The three primary generators of Middle East radicalism and extremism are Iran’s “Shia Crescent,” the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Global Jihad. Iran is Persian, ideologically and historically different from the Arab world. Yet if Iran gets its hands on nuclear weapons in the future, the threatened pro-Western regimes of the Arab world may decide to join it and not fight it.
