...Hugh Raffles Duke University Press 2007 Jews, Lice, and History Hugh Raffles Antisemitism is exactly the same as delousing. Getting rid of lice is not a question of ideology...

... French publications—consisted of images of Jesus and Mary “tagged” with the words “sale juif” or “sale juive” (dirty Jew) and subtitled “L’antisémitisme: Et si c’était l’affaire de tous?” (Anti-Semitism, what if it were everyone’s concern?) (see fig. 1 ). Immediately, the Ligue Internationale Contre le...

... and national pride. The essay looks at angry responses to the three resolutions against homophobia issued by the European parliament in this period, comments on the relevance of the gay/Jew analogy to Poland's debates on sexual tolerance, and examines an incident of March 2008, when Poland's president used...

... maker was aware of this heritage prior to purchasing these factories, and made efforts to control the fallout from this potential PR blunder. During these same years, cigarette makers were publicly equating cigarettes with liberty, airing advertisements comparing smokers to the persecuted Jews of Nazi...

... of space. Critical social scientists have shown how from the “tower and stockade” method of settling Jews in Mandatory Palestine through the establishment of Jewish towns in the Galilee and the Negev to the construction of settlements and outposts in the West Bank, Zionist leaders have always understood...

... in Israeli art. This essay examines this exhibit against the backdrop of the state’s anniversary celebrations to indicate the ways in which categories of East/West, Arab/Jew, Miz- rahi/Ashkenazi, and religious/secular are reifi ed and mapped onto one another. While the fact of these divisions...

... of violence, the Middle East is replete with examples, both historical and contemporary, of coexistence among Muslims, Jews, and Christians. Some anthropologists have ascribed coexistence to an ethnic division of labor or, as Carleton Coon has called it, a “mosaic,” a sit- uation where everybody needs...

.... Schrag, Carl, and Steve Rodan. 1994 . Closer than you think. Jerusalem Post Magazine , 29 July, 11 . Sedan, Gil. 1999 . Moroccan Jews mourn death of king. Jewish News of Greater Phoenix (available on-line at www.jewishaz.com/index.shtml ),30 July. Seliktar, Ofira. 1998 . The peace dividend...

... point is made by Jean-­Claude Milner (2006) in his writing on the conditions of possibility for the historical constitution of le juif de savoir (the Jew of knowledge, or the historical figure of the Jew as fundamentally “of knowledge4 Milner examines each nomination — ­Jew, knowledge — ­in light...

... . London: Allen & Unwin. Foucault , Michel . 1979 . Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison . New York: Vintage. Ginsberg , Louis . ( 1928 ) 1968 . The Legends of the Jews . Vol. 3 . Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America. Gombrich , Richard . 1984...

... an interesting test case 435 of the conflict and influence of musical styles in the construction of authentic Arab Music in local music. Since it is both local (for Israeli Palestinians) and foreign (for Jews), Israeli Culture Arab music is a part of Israel’s cultural reality and to some extent has...

.... Benedict Anderson has shown the salience of the Nazi fear about the “secret agency” of Jews in Germany, and the desperate deployment of all sorts of means to smoke out the “real” Jews, many of whom seemed “Aryan” and “German” in every regard...

... inferiority, defeat, and exile constituted structuring factors. More than once, reli- gious factions had to call upon a foreign power to ensure their domination over others. Thus when the Jews returned from Babylonia to Jerusalem after Cyrus’s...

... States and Israel were occupied by Britain and the Jews. However counterintuitive this similarity — between a critique of hegemony today that understands itself as a critique from the Left and what had been a rightist critique of hegemony...

... in the killing of Jews.2 The very controversy about these versions of the Holocaust truth cre- ates new “conversations” in German and Polish societies about who is guilty of what. Alternative versions of truth create a public sphere of debate that consti- tutes a new community that, in turn, ensures...

..., those suffering from venereal diseases, the psycho­ paths, the traffic offenders, and, at the end, the Jews. I find Arendt’s flattening of “totalitarianism” in the contexts of Nazism and Stalinism highly problematic and restrictive. See Hannah...

..., and division:Disjunctures of culture, nationality, and citizenship in German-Jewish selfhood in East and West Berlin. In Jews, Germans, memory:Reconstructions of Jewish life in Germany , edited by Y. Michal Bodemann. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ———. 1997 . Settling accounts: Violence, justice...