Antisemitism and the left by Robert Fine
A highly original conceptual study of the opposing faces of universalism, its stimulation for Jewish emancipation and the struggle for its rescue from repressive, antisemitic associations. -- .‘Fine and Spencer are excellent in showing how universalism both offered a progressive pathway to emancipate Jews and a means to suppress their particularityThey meticulously probe the conundrum of whether, in Enlightenment thought and practice, Jews could only be humans and never Jews.’
Robin Cohen, University of Oxford
‘Fine and Spencer have contributed some very sensitive, and sensible, analyses of attitudes towards antisemitism and the Jewish question from universalist thinkers, beginning with the Enlightenment and going on through to current debates on the left about Israel.’
Steven Beller, Independent scholar, Washington D.C., Patterns of prejudice, 2017, Vol. 51, No. 5
‘Fine and Spencer should be applauded for convincingly demonstrating, in such a short work, the need for the left to confront the Jewish question in order to pursue its political mission.’
Benjamin Bland, Royal Holloway, University of London, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 54, No. 1
'Allegations of antisemitism have been directed at Corbyn and his newly-modelled Labour Party, both from within British Jewry and from within his own party; those same allegations have been rejected by many of Corbyn’s supporters as a politically-motivated smear. Robert Fine – who has sadly passed away since this book was published – and Philip Spencer tried to explain this apparent revival of antisemitism on the left by reference to the history of the Jewish question in European politics.'
Dave Rich, Deputy Director of Communications Community Security Trust, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Vol. 19, No. 3, (2020)
Robert Fine was Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick
Philip Spencer is Emeritus Professor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Kingston University and Visiting Professor in Politics at Birkbeck, University of London
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| ISBN 13 | 9781526104977 |
| ISBN 10 | 1526104970 |
| Title | Antisemitism and the left |
| Author | Robert Fine |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2017-02-16 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
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