{"product_id":"9781400841882","title":"On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred","description":"\u003cp\u003eToday, the term \"Jewish self-hatred\" often denotes a treasonous brand of Jewish self-loathing, and is frequently used as a smear, such as when it is applied to politically moderate Jews who are critical of Israel. \u003ci\u003eIn On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred\u003c\/i\u003e, Paul Reitter demonstrates that the concept of Jewish self-hatred once had decidedly positive connotations. He traces the genesis of the term to Anton Kuh, a Viennese-Jewish journalist who coined it in the aftermath of World War I, and shows how the German-Jewish philosopher Theodor Lessing came, in 1930, to write a book that popularized \"Jewish self-hatred.\" Reitter contends that, as Kuh and Lessing used it, the concept of Jewish self-hatred described a complex and possibly redemptive way of being Jewish. Paradoxically, Jews could show the world how to get past the blight of self-hatred only by embracing their own, singularly advanced self-critical tendencies--their \"Jewish self-hatred.?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Provocative and elegantly argued, \u003ci\u003eOn the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred\u003c\/i\u003e challenges widely held notions about the history and meaning of this idea, and explains why its history is so badly misrepresented today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121592680688,"sku":"9781400841882","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781400841882_p0.jpg?v=1763713840","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781400841882","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}