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This chapter seeks to explain how the Holocaust of European Jewry has altered the understanding of those presently engaged in studying the meaning of antisemitism. It will trace the changes in the conceptualization of antisemitism since its inception as an organized political entity in the late nineteenth century and attempt to show how the mass-murder of Jews during World War II rendered older ways of grappling with the problem obsolete, while posing new challenges to the ways men and women seek to come to terms with its persistence.
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Much of what Lazare has to say about Jews in 1894 would classify him as a Jewish antisemite, particularly his distinction between Israelites and the unassimilated eastern European Jews, whose “spirit of Talmudism” he held generally responsible for Jew-hatred. His experience of the Dreyfus Affair, however, led to a significant change of heart. Eventually, he embraced a social revolutionary Zionism as the only solution of the Jewish Question.
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Levy, R.S. (2021). The Holocaust. In: Goldberg, S., Ury, S., Weiser, K. (eds) Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism. Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51658-1_11
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