{"id":5048,"date":"2021-07-11T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T07:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=5048"},"modified":"2021-07-11T07:42:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T07:42:00","slug":"lipstadt-publishes-essay-in-the-jewish-quarterly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2021\/07\/11\/lipstadt-publishes-essay-in-the-jewish-quarterly\/","title":{"rendered":"Lipstadt Publishes Essay in &#8216;The Jewish Quarterly&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/religion.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/lipstadt-deborah.html\">Deborah E. Lipstadt<\/a>, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies and associated faculty in the History Department,\u00a0recently published an essay in the relaunch issue of <em>The Jewish<\/em> <em>Quarterly<\/em>. The piece, &#8220;White insurrectionists: Anti-semitism in America,&#8221; examines the roots of far-right extremism in the United States. Read a short excerpt from the piece below, a longer excerpt at <em><a href=\"https:\/\/jewishnews.timesofisrael.com\/deborah-lipstadt-far-right-antisemitism-isnt-just-an-american-phenomenon\/\">Jewish News<\/a><\/em>, and the full article (subscription required) at <em><a href=\"https:\/\/jewishquarterly.com\/essay\/2021\/05\/the-return-of-history\">The Jewish Quarterly<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>&#8220;[The January 6 U.S. Capitol] assault shocked and surprised many people. It was unprecedented. (The Capitol had been attacked previously, but that was in 1812 by the British, not a swarm of American citizens.)<\/em><\/p><p><em>&#8220;I was not, however, surprised by either the insurrection or the antisemitism that was part of it. Rather than an\u00a0ex nihilo\u00a0event, it constituted a link in the growing chain of far-right extremist violence.<\/em><\/p><p><em>&#8220;During recent years, the United States \u2013 as well as much of Europe \u2013 has witnessed a decided growth in and sophistication of far-right white-power movements.<\/em><\/p><p><em>&#8220;Now that they have emerged more fully into the daylight, it is important that we recognise how the racism and antisemitism within them are inextricably linked.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr.\u00a0Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies and associated faculty in the History Department,\u00a0recently published an essay in the relaunch issue of The Jewish Quarterly. The piece, &#8220;White insurrectionists: Anti-semitism in America,&#8221; examines the roots of far-right extremism in the United States. Read a short excerpt from the piece below, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}