SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Antisemitism, Globalism, Eugenics
3 May 2018
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SOCI 227 – Jews in North America
Anti-Semitism – March 14th
Readings: Weinfeld chapter 11, Weinfeld, Wieseltier, Wisse
How to measure anti-Semitism
Surveys – do you perceive it, have you had problems with it?
• They are objective
• Asking person how they perceive it – large, small problem?
o This is commonly asked
• One issue with this approach
o Question of perception vs. objection
o A lot of times we find that there is a misjudgement
o Interesting with the Jewish case, by many objective measures – they are mis-
read, and they do well with rising inter-marriage rates, education, wealth, etc.
• What’s goig o?
o Are people paranoid? Taking things out of control? Generalizing things?
Sense of others – always present
• In Weimer, Germany before WW2 – significant inter-marriage and the jews were doing
well
• There is always a fear of something negative going on or going to happen
Friendship circles – how many of your friends are Jews?
• How diverse are you
• This question can be posed to any group
• Generic questions used to measure integration, social distance
• Is the majority groups ready to accept you
• Are you ready to accept them
Sklare – wrote about this many years ago
• When Jews moved into Suburbia
• He claims that there was discomfort of Jewish people, and the reason was that they had
to play an ambassadorial character
o Ca’t e youself eause you feel you hae to e a aassado ad ake a
good impression, you are not just representing yourself but your country
North America
• Idea that they are different
• USA – KKK, many extreme right wing anti-Semitists organizations you can find
Rosenberg Trial
• Accused of being communist, sentenced to death
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• Killed
• Major issue Jews faced
• Identification of jews with being communist, spies, etc.
Canada?
• German refugees – None was too many
• Canada closed the doors to refugees
• Anti-Semitism in Quebec was huge in the 1930s
o Was greater than and still is a huge problem now
o Newspaper – openly anti-Semitic in a lot of its writing
o At the time, very Catholic state
Adella exposes English anti-Semitism and are praised
• Reaction in French Quebec was different – how dare she write and say this
o It’s ot tue, e ae NOT ati-Semitic
• Completely different reactions
May 1942 – Referendum
• Everyone was on board with this fascist attitude
• All of Canada voted YES by a large majority
• In Quebec, majority voted NO
• Quebec intellectual scholars still have a hard time attacking and confronting this issue
Social credit – 30s and 40s
• Manning – fought against anti-Semites
• Books written about social credit and anti-Semitism
• Political party of Canada, last time it had anything to with it
o Pocket credit to control the Jews
Content of Anti-Semitism
• You can look at it and identify 4 main characteristics to classify anti-Semitism
o 1. Religious anti-Semitism
▪ Mainly associated with Christianity
▪ Jews did not accept Christ
▪ Attempt to convert the Jews
▪ Long history of the Jews as a Christ killer
▪ Jew as the devil
• Books written about how they relate to the devil
• They had horns
• A bit important in Islam, but mainly in Christianity
▪ Opposed because what they believe is wrong
o 2. Racist
▪ Jews are a different race
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