Description
This book is the first comprehensive study of postwar antisemitism in the Netherlands. It focuses on the way stereotypes are passed on from one decade to the next, as reflected in public debates, the mass media, protests and commemorations, and everyday interactions. The Holocaust, Israel and ‘the Jew’ explores the ways in which old stories and phrases relating to "the stereotypical Jew" are recycled and modified for new uses, linking the antisemitism of the early postwar years to its enduring manifestations in today’s world.
The chapters cover themes including soccer-related antisemitism, Jewish responses, philosemitism, antisemitism in Dutch-Moroccan and Dutch-Turkish communities, contentious acts of remembrance, the neo-Nazi tradition, and the legacy of Theo van Gogh. The book concludes with a lengthy epilogue on "the Jew" in the politics of the radical right, the attacks in Paris in 2015, and the refugee crisis.
Chapter
Part I. Post-Liberation Antisemitism
2. ‘The Jew’ as Dubious Victim / Evelien Gans
3. The Meek Jew – and Beyond / Evelien Gans
4. Alte Kameraden: Right-wing Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial / Remco Ensel, Evelien Gans and Willem Wagenaar
5. Jewish Responses to Post-Liberation Antisemitism / Evelien Gans
Part II. Israel and ‘the Jew’
6. Philosemitism? : Ambivalences regarding Israel / Evelien Gans
7. Transnational Left-wing Protest and the ‘Powerful Zionist’ / Remco Ensel
8. Israel: Source of Divergence / Evelien Gans
9. ‘The Activist Jew’ Responds to Changing Dutch Perceptions of Israel / Katie Digan
10. Turkish Anti-Zionism in the Netherlands: From Leftist to Islamist Activism / Annemarike Stremmelaar
Part III. The Holocaust-ed Jew in Native Dutch Domains since the 1980s
11. ‘The Jew’ in Football: To Kick Around or to Embrace / Evelien Gans
12. Pornographic Antisemitism, Shoah Fatigue and Freedom of Speech / Evelien Gans
13. Historikerstreit: The Stereotypical Jew in Recent Dutch Holocaust Studies / Remco Ensel and Evelien Gans
Part IV. Generations. Migrant Identities and Antisemitism in the Twenty-first Century
14. ‘The Jew’ vs. ‘the Young Male Moroccan’ : Stereotypical Confrontations in the City / Remco Ensel
15. Conspiracism: Islamic Redemptive Antisemitism and the Murder of Theo van Gogh / Remco Ensel
16. Reading Anne Frank: Confronting Antisemitism in Turkish Communities / Annemarike Stremmelaar
17. Holocaust Commemorations in Postcolonial Dutch Society / Remco Ensel
18. Epilogue: Instrumentalising and Blaming ‘the Jew’, 2011-2016 / Evelien Gans
Illustration 1 Cartoon by Maarten Meuldijk for the nsb newspaper, Volk en Vaderland, 25 June 1935
Illustration 2 Fake train ticket. German original, 1931
Illustration 3 Photo of a protest against the expiration of war crimes on Dam Square, 28 February 1965
Illustration 4 Photo of a demonstration against the military operation in Jenin on Dam Square, 13 April 2002
Illustration 5 A photo of the Jewish Quarter in the postwar years
Illustration 6 Photo of a protest against the pension for the neo-nazi widow of a nazi in The Hague, 27 November 1986
Illustration 7 A news clipping on the distribution of neo-Nazi material in newspaper Het Parool, 23 October 1964
Illustration 8 Photo of a demonstration against airtime for an extreme right party, 18 May 1981
Illustration 9 A news clipping on an incident with a student inititation ceremony from the Haagse Post, 27 October 1962
Illustration 10 Volunteers for Israel, 5 June 1967
Illustration 11 Postcard with a drawing by Burhan Karkutli, 1980
Illustration 12 Postcard with a drawing by Burhan Karkutli, 1980
Illustration 13 Photo of the laying of a wreath for the victims of an antisemitic bombing in Paris, 14 December 1980
Illustration 14 Photo of the protection a synagogue receives, 21 October 1981
Illustration 15 Photo of a demonstration against the mass murder in Sabra and Shatila, 25 September 1982
Illustration 16 Photo of a demonstration against the mass murder in Sabra and Shatila, 25 September 1982
Illustration 17 Photo of a Feyenoord football fan
Illustration 18 Photo of a Feyenoord football fan
Illustration 19 Photo of an Ajax fan
Illustration 20 The cover of ‘Allah knows best’, a collection of columns by Theo van Gogh, January 2004
Illustration 21 Photo of Jews being forced to leave their house
Illustration 22 Photo of rapper Salah Edin in a talk show, 27 March 2008
Illustration 23 Cartoon on the Holocaust by Abdou Bouzerda
Illustration 24 Cartoon on the Holocaust by Abdou Bouzerda
Illustration 25 Photo of graffiti thematizing Jews and media, Rotterdam, 2 June 2006
Illustration 26 Photo of a demonstration against the politics of Geert Wilders, 22 March 2014
Illustration 27 Cartoon on ritual slaughter by D.C. Lama
Illustration 28 Photo of a protest against the assault on Charlie-Hebdo, 8 January 2015
Illustration 29 Photo of a demonstration against the entry of refugees in Europe, 12 March 2016
The Holocaust, Israel and the 'Jew'
：Histories of Antisemitism in Postwar Dutch Society
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