{"product_id":"on-the-origins-of-jewish-selfhatred-9780691119229","title":"On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new intellectual history that looks at \"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 popularized \"Jewish self-hatred.\" Reitter contends that  as Kuh and Lessing used it  the concept of Jewish self-hatred described a complex and possibly redemptive way of being Jewish. Paradoxically  Jews could show the world how to get past the blight of self-hatred only by embracing their own  singularly advanced self-critical tendenciestheir \"Jewish self-hatred.\"  Provocative and elegantly argued  On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred challenges widely held notions about the history and meaning of this idea  and explains why its history is so badly misrepresented today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666346991669,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691119228","price":44.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691119229.jpg?v=1782429058","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/on-the-origins-of-jewish-selfhatred-9780691119229","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}