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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Anti-Semitism"”.
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Malcolm Ross : anti-semitism, hate and free speech in Canada
… General refused to charge Ross under Canada's anti-hate legislation, those who wanted action taken against Ross had to act creatively. First, the school board was left to handle the citizens' complaints. Its slow reaction and reluctance to reprimand a teacher for personal beliefs, led one …
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Jews and British Sport: integration, ethnicity and anti-semitism, c1880-c1960
… surrounding integration, ethnicity and anti-Semitism. Through a broad analysis of archival materials, newspaper sources and oral history, this thesis seeks to examine the influence that sport exerted on the Jewish community – paying particular attention to the ways in which physical …
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Henry Ford's anti-Semitism: A rhetorical analysis of the "paranoid" style
… why, and how, he propagated the longest running anti-Semitic campaign in history. A synergy of two existing theories in communication, Hofstadter (1966) and Smith (1977) provided the appropriate framework for this study. Their observations of high-profile figures being labeled as politically …
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A Study of Anti-Semitism in Europe and the United States, Post World War II
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Jewish Identity on American Television and Viewer Attitudes in an Era of Rising Anti-Semitism
… these perceptions. Due to the current rise of anti-Semitism in the United States, it is important to consider how writers are defining Jewish identity by examining depictions of contemporary Jewish characters and assessing viewer attitudes toward those characters. Two long-running, popular …
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The Lesser of Two Evils: The Figure of the Jew in Elizabethan Literature
… drama: either a) the depiction is intended to be anti-Semitic; b) philo-Semitic; c) that the playwrights are merely observing and documenting the anti-Semitism prevalent in Elizabethan London. This reductive view oversimplifies our understanding of the complexities of Jewish characters on the …
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Crystal Night : a short novel
… Initially the Jewish fear of intermarriage and anti-Semitism that Rachel inherits from her parents challenges this relationship, and when Danny is conscripted into the army by the Apartheid state, his mysterious death ends it.
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"""Horny -Handed Sons of Toil"": Workers, Politics, and Religion in Augusta, Georgia, 1880--1910"
… success on a new platform of white supremacy, anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism. The dissertation concludes by uncovering the roots of this party and the efforts of Catholic and African-American religious organizations to protest against it.
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Cultural critique and canon formation, 1910-1937. A study in modernism and cultural memory
… by showing the later importance of unconscious anti-semitism to her capacity to elaborate an ecological nationalism. The final chapter examines anti-semitism and satire in the relationship between Rodker and Wyndham Lewis, and offers a further explanatory justification for the argument of the …
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Negotiating Modernity: Cultural Reform in 1920s Hungary
… illiberality, ethnic conflict and anti-Semitism. No longer viewed as aberrations arising from an inadequate understanding of modernity, such manifestations can be seen, to the contrary, as the direct outcome of ever-more intensive, deliberate and conscious efforts to establish a …
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The Labour Party's commonwealth : an analysis of discourses on political community in the 1930s
… 1930s, in a specific relation to the issues of antisemitism and Indian independence. These issues are chosen because they are some of the issues in which a conception of race is posed in the implicit and explicit discourse. The central thrust of the investigation is to establish the ways in …
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Jewish Perspectives on Christian Privilege: a Consensual Qualitative Study
… Impact of Christian Culture (3) Experience of anti-Semitism/Marginalization in Dominant Culture (4) Coping Strategies for Marginalization (5) Thoughts and feelings about Christianity (6) Thoughts about Christian Privilege and (7) Expectations for Helping Professionals.</p>
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MAKING AUSTRIAN: CULTURAL MEMORY, NATIONALISM, AND PERFORMING IDENTITY POLITICS IN LATE IMPERIAL VIENNA
… performances: First, the development of anti-Semitism as key to shared cultural memory in the rhetoric and political rallies of opposing but predominant political leaders Karl Lueger and Georg Schönerer, and second, how this development gave rise to an increased awareness and discussion …
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Isaac Bashevis Singer: Speak English, Think Yiddish-- Adaptation versus Assimilation.
… Singer's characters survive the travails of anti-Semitism and resettle in America. This study explores Singer's Polish Jews to determine whether they assimilate into their new culture; or maintain their strong Jewish traditions and adapt to the freedoms of America.</p> <p>Singer's life is …
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Buddhist Heart - Jewish Soul: A Examination of the Phenomenon of Jewish Buddhists in the United States
… Holocaust, the rejection of the God of Judaism, Anti-Semitism and cultural assimilation. It demonstrates that higher education and the evolving discipline of science were also factors. It reveals how the literary movement of the beats, its founding member Allen Ginsberg and the psychedelic drug …
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Grafting Onto `the Jew': The Importance Of Being Jew-Ish To Early Modern English Christian Identity
… of whether or not there was early modern anti-Semitism, and toward a more nuanced reading of the ideologies and evidence that motivated these representations and behaviors. Inherently interdisciplinary, my dissertation is informed by the ways in which the humanities (history, religious …
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Motivic development in the piano music of Karl Weigl (1881-1949).
… Weigl's professional horizons. With the rise of anti-semitism in Nazi Germany, Weigl and his family escaped to New York in autumn 1938. Eventually, Weigl obtained positions in the Hartt School of Music, Brooklyn College, Boston Conservatory, and finally, the Philadelphia Academy of Music in 1948. …
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Terror in the Ostland: The Genesis of Nazi Collaboration, 1941-42
… varied: however, a euphoric wave of nationalism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Communism accompanied the early period of German occupation, or "liberation” from the Red Army, and proved to be the overwhelming motive for Eastern Europeans to murder their Jewish neighbors.
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