Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews - Paperback

by Sander L. Gilman (Author)

'Jewish Self-Hatred' has all the qualities of a master work by a seminal mind. It is a contribution of the first rank and should be regarded as one of the finest studies we are likely to see for a long time of a remarkable and sobering cultural phenomenon.--Chaim Potok, 'Philadelphia Inquirer. 'A broad panorama of antisemitism...Gilman's volume has the great merit of a quite unusual breadth of reference.--'Times Literary Supplement.'

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This book examines the historiography of Jewish self-hatred and traces the response of Jewish writers, from the High Middle Ages to contemporary America, to the charge that Jews are unable to command the language of the larger society in which they live.