Feelings of guilt have tormented Holocaust survivors, ranging from immediately after the liberation to later in life, for shorter or longer periods, and persisting for some throughout their entire post-war lives. Descriptions of the guilt experienced by survivors of the Nazi camps occupy an impressive amount of literature: "Why me?" was the question, when a younger and more able family member p...

This article assesses the history of Jewish agricultural settlements created in Western Canada late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first were founded following 1881 Russian pogroms, at which time Canada’s community tried to resettle refugees Canada. result was establishment over a dozen farming colonies turn By examining documentation produced by colonists organizations that faci...

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Questionnaires designed to measure anti-Semitic prejudice usually present a number of statements to which participants can respond by choosing among response categories ranging from “disagree” to “agree.” But the value of this standard procedure should be reassessed for several reasons. First, from the perspective of discourse theory, presenting subjects with anti-Semitic statements could possi...

Noel D. Johnson and Mark Koyama’s book, Persecution Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom, examines the links between religion, state action, development of liberalism in medieval Europe. It discusses a model “conditional toleration”; how interaction religion influences persecution discrimination against minorities; religious freedom eventually paved way for scientific advances, libera...

Anti-semitism, racism, pro-life beliefs, and extreme Christian ideology have long been acknowledged to be a feature in far-right terrorist violence the United States. However, what has less is underpinning element of misogyny. This paper aims reflect on why this is. First, it looks at chronological trajectory “common-couple violence” “patriarchal terrorism” “misogynistic terrorism.” Even though...

In March of 1988, the faculty of the Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst unanimously demanded that the University remove one of its most distinguished members, Professor Julius Lester. The official reason given for this unprecedented request was that Lester had become an "anti-Negro-Negro." In making this extraordinary demand, Lester's colleagues were ...