SOC 3701 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Jewish Deicide, Christian Culture, Social Darwinism
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The holo(cid:272)aust: (cid:862)the deli(cid:271)erate, s(cid:455)ste(cid:373)ati(cid:272) (cid:373)urder of appro(cid:454)i(cid:373)atel(cid:455) (cid:1010) (cid:373)illio(cid:374) je(cid:449)s i(cid:374) Eight stages of genocide: classification, symbolization, dehumanization, organization, polarization, preparation, extermination, denial. Why the jews: anti-jewish attitudes deeply rooted in european christian culture and society, jews historically charged with the crime of deicide. Jew hatred in modernity: racial/biological/nationalist influences, new rationale, old hatred. Enlightenment new ideas: freedom of religion, equality, tolerance, separation of church and state, abolish social classes and privilege, less basis for discrimination against jews. Emancipation: 1791 fra(cid:374)(cid:272)e is the first europea(cid:374) state to (cid:862)e(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:272)ipate(cid:863) je(cid:449)s, grants them legal equality, spreads through western and central europe in 19th century. Nationalism: o(cid:374)e"s per(cid:272)ei(cid:448)ed relatio(cid:374)ship to a (cid:374)atio(cid:374)al (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)it(cid:455, nation: political entity and/or ethnic group. Social darwinism: appl(cid:455)i(cid:374)g dar(cid:449)i(cid:374)"s theor(cid:455) of e(cid:448)olutio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)sur(cid:448)i(cid:448)al of the fittest(cid:863) to hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)s, o(cid:373)e ra(cid:272)ial groups (cid:449)ere (cid:862)(cid:373)ore fit(cid:863) tha(cid:374) others, o(cid:373)e ra(cid:272)ial groups ha(cid:448)e (cid:862)e(cid:448)ol(cid:448)ed(cid:863) further tha(cid:374) others. New anti-semitism pla(cid:455)s out : example: the dreyfus affair, france 1899.
