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Antisemita: Una Parola in Ostaggio
Author(s): Pisanty, Valentina
Date: 2025
Topics: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Discourse, Antisemitism: Definitions, Anti-Zionism, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Abstract: La violenza e le parole d'odio contro il popolo ebraico hanno una storia secolare e drammatica che non si è interrotta con l'Olocausto. Nei primi decenni del XXI secolo si è fatta largo una nuova definizione insidiosa di antisemitismo, che sposta l'enfasi dalle forme più tradizionali di pregiudizio antiebraico all'ostilità nei confronti di Israele. Dopo i fatti del 7 ottobre 2023 il dibattito politico e culturale è ostaggio di una militarizzazione e di una grave confusione su cosa è antisemitismo, cosa è antisionismo e cosa non lo è. Valentina Pisanty da anni studia il discorso pubblico attorno a questi temi, si è occupata della memoria e affronta qui il nocciolo del problema, con estrema limpidezza e arrivando a smascherare l'uso politico delle parole per giustificare interessi di parte. Un contributo essenziale per il dibattito in corso.
New perspectives on anti-Jewish violence and memory
Author(s): Nalewajko, Katarzyna
Date: 2022
Topics: Holocaust Commemoration, History, Holocaust Education, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Memory, National Identity, Internet
Abstract: This thesis explores the topic of anti-Jewish violence and memory empirically, using three different methods of inquiry. The first chapter employs a deductive approach to study how insurgent presence influences survival of genocide targets. I explore the case of the Holocaust in World War Two France using archival collections on Jews’ arrests and La Résistance members’ presence. I employ an instrumental variable method in which I instrument insurgent presence with soldier deaths from World War One. I probe my findings with qualitative analysis of chosen typical cases in order to investigate the mechanisms that govern the relationship. I find that insurgents helped Jews survive by providing them with information, help networks, and sharing the skills they developed to evade their common enemy, the Nazi occupier and collaborating Vichy state. The second chapter employs an exploratory approach and asks whether Wikipedia captures collective memory. Drawing on anthropological and historical literatures, it proposes a way to operationalise collective memory as actor-role associations and measure it with Wikipedia data. Comparing our findings with the qualitative research on Poles’ collective memory of World War Two, we conclude that Wikipedia serves as a unique data source to describe the content of national collective memories. In the third chapter I review literature on anti-Jewish “pogroms” to establish what the term means. I find considerable disagreement about the definition of the term in extant literature and propose to substitute it with other vocabulary from the wider literature on conflict – “mass categorical violence,” “state repression,” and “communal attacks.” I review two recent studies that used the word “pogroms” when seeking to explain their occurrence. I argue that the proposed typology would better capture the main characteristics of the violence typically called “pogroms” and enable better future sample specification and analyses.