Anti-Semitism

In the summer of 2006 the author received a message that read Love the Nazis and KILL THE JEWS DEAD. And that was the trigger that launched internationally known scholar Falk into work on this book. Anti-Semitism has once again become a worldwide phenomenon growing largely during the last decade of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st. Among the spurs for this are the migration of Muslim populations and the ongoing Israeli-Arab wars. In this far-reaching and comprehensive volume Falk delves deeply into the current events history and literature on anti-Semitism integrating insights from psychology sociology anthropology psychoanalysis and political science. The result is an absorbing exploration of one of the oldest scourges of humanity spotlighting the irrational and unconscious causes of anti-Semitism the summer of 2006 the author received a message that read Love the Nazis and KILL THE JEWS DEAD. And that was the trigger that launched internationally known scholar Avner Falk into work on this book. Anti-Semitism has once again become a worldwide phenomenon growing largely during the last decade of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first. Among the spurs for this are migration of Muslim populations and the ongoing Israeli-Arab wars. In this far-reaching and comprehensive volume Falk delves deeply into the current events history and literature on anti-Semitism integrating insights from psychology sociology anthropology psychoanalysis and political science. The result is an absorbing exploration of one of the oldest scourges of humanity spotlighting the irrational and unconscious causes of anti-Semitism.This book also features chapters on the psychodynamics of racism fascism Nazism and the dark tragic and unconscious processes both individual and collective that led to the Shoah. Holocaust denial and its psychological motives as well as insights into the physical and psychological survival strategies of Holocaust survivors are explored in depth. There are also chapters on scientific anti-Semitism including eugenics.