Hybrid Hate
Jews, Blacks, and the Question of Race
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:5th Jan '21
Should be back in stock very soon
Hybrid Hate is the first book to study the conflation of anti-Semitism and anti-Black racism. As objects of racism, Jews and Blacks have been linked together for centuries as peoples apart from the general run of humanity. In this book, Tudor Parfitt investigates the development of anti-Semitism, anti-Black racism, and race theory in the West from the Renaissance to the Second World War. Parfitt explains how Jews were often perceived as Black in medieval Europe, and the conflation of Jews and Blacks continued throughout the period of the Enlightenment. With the discovery of a community of Black Jews in Loango in West Africa in 1777, and later of Black Jews in India, the Middle East, and other parts of Africa, the notion of multiracial Jews was born. Over the following centuries, the figure of the hybrid Black Jew was drawn into the maelstrom of evolving theories about race hierarchies and taxonomies. Parfitt analyses how Jews and Blacks were increasingly conflated in a racist discourse from the mid-nineteenth century to the period of the Third Reich, as the two fundamental prejudices of the West were combined. Hybrid Hate offers a new interpretation of the rise of anti-Semitism and anti-Black racism in Europe, and casts light on contemporary racist discourses in the United States and Europe.
Tudor Parfitt's volume is an exercise in erudition. Draws on an extensive documentation, it offers a detailed reconstruction of the history of racism, and more precisely, the history of racism before racism as seen against the backdrop of the long confrontation (or "struggle," as the author calls it), between polygenism and monogenism. * Monica Miniati, Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History *
While the early history of anti-Black racism and racialization has become a lively academic topic in recent decades, and a significant body of work exists on the history of antisemitism, these topics have rarely been examined in parallel. Parfitt presents a startling quantity of evidence for their persistent conflation across the centuries, and demonstrates conclusively that the West's "two fundamental hatreds" have more often than not occurred together * Jonathan Egid, TLS *
Hybrid Hate is an outstanding book ... It is beautifully written and offers the reader original material and food for thought ... No future discussion of antisemitism or racialization will be able to ignore the thesis presented in this book. * Shalva Weil, Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism *
Engaging...a delight to read. * Financial Times *
What makes Parfitt's Hybrid Hate such a delight to read is his trust that the readers will draw their own conclusions from his work. * Stephen Bush, Financial Times *
Hybrid Hate is a thoroughly written and well-constructed book which makes a compelling argument to consider anti-Jewish and anti-Black racism together. * Clive Gabay, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies *
Hybrid Hate is a thoroughly written and well-constructed book which makes a compelling argument to consider anti-Jewish and anti-Black racism together. * Clive Gabay, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies *
ISBN: 9780190083335
Dimensions: 157mm x 236mm x 33mm
Weight: 567g
304 pages