"Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred"

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This paper looks at this book which provides an in-depth study of anti-Antisemitism through the ages. It shows how the essential idea of anti-Antisemitism was the same at different periods in history but its style and form changed. It shows how at some stages it was based on religious reasons, others on economic reasons while some times simply on fear of the "other." It also looks at the most recent type of anti-Antisemitism in the form of anti-Zionism.

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"Part One of this book is entitled "From the Cross to the Swastika." This section begins in antiquity with the roots of anti-Antisemitism beginning in Hellenistic times in Greece and later in ancient Rome. The Jewish Diaspora in the Hellenistic world is described as the Jewish persistence at maintaining their own monotheistic faith, keeping dietary restrictions in accordance with that faith, their disassociation with Gentiles and their contention that the Jewish faith was made up of God's chosen ones (Wistrich, 4). Greek literature includes passages that express anti-Semitic attitudes against the exclusivity that the Jews themselves created. The reaction of the Hellenistic people was that the Jewish people's wish to remain separate from their culture was best translated into an expression of "hatred of the gods" (Wistrich, 5)."

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