Ebook: On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred

Today, the term ""Jewish self-hatred"" often denotes a treasonous brand of Jewish self-loathing, and is frequently used as a smear, such as when it is applied to politically moderate Jews who are critical of Israel. In On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred, Paul Reitter demonstrates that the concept of Jewish self-hatred once had decidedly positive connotations. He traces the genesis of the term to Anton Kuh, a Viennese-Jewish journalist who coined it in the aftermath of World War I, and shows how the German-Jewish philosopher Theodor Lessing came, in 1930, to write a book that popula.;Genealogical imperatives -- The birth of "Jewish self-hatred" and the spirit of interwar Europe -- Prominence : the making of Theodor Lessings book Jewish self-hatred.