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antisemitism "is a passing phase in the history of culture" https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/apr/10/encyclopedia-britannica-11th-edition https:

by mvc 2y ago

antisemitism "is a passing phase in the history of culture" https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/apr/10/encyclopedia-britannica-11th-edition https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/apr/10/ency...

casey2 2y ago
"Though anti-Semitism has been unmasked and discredited, it is to be feared that its history is not yet at an end."[2] That's just a quote mine. If you read the whole article [1] It mentions other times where antisemitism was regarded as a "ephemeral craze" which later entered mainstream politics and agitation (duels between antisemites and jews and mob violence). It mentions revivals of organized antisemitism as recently as 1907. Nobody would read this article and come away with the impression that antisemitism was "a passing phase in the history of culture" unless they were talking about a thousand years in the future. Furthermore the entire article is extremely biased in the jews' favor (particularly noticeable when the article glosses over widespread investment banking fraud but calls antisemitism a "barbarian movement" and calls out popular antisemites by name and accuses them of fraud and having "evil notoriety". You also have the fact that most readers would consider Europe in the late 1800s to be more or less the same enlightened and liberal continent as it is now. So that particular section about antisemitism being a passing fad is just wishful thinking which would be picked up by most readers. Also it's well known that you can't predict the future, to my knowledge the 11th doesn't predict WW1 which is generally considered as being influential in the rise of the Nazis. People buy encyclopedias for their information not as an oracle. [1] https://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaBritannicaDict.a.s.l.g.i.11thed.chisholm.1910-1911-1922.33vols/02.EncycBrit.11th.1910.v.2.AND-AUS./page/n155/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaBritannicaDict.a.s.... [2] https://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaBritannicaDict.a.s.l.g.i.11thed.chisholm.1910-1911-1922.33vols/02.EncycBrit.11th.1910.v.2.AND-AUS./page/n167/mode/2up?q=passing+phase https://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaBritannicaDict.a.s....
- casey2 2y ago
  I also found the original quote, which isn't in the article on antisemitism. https://books.google.com/books?id=NHDHBNoqFwIC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA410&dq=%22a+passing+phase+in+the+history+of+culture%22&hl=en#v=onepage&q=%22a%20passing%20phase%20in%20the%20history%20of%20culture%22&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=NHDHBNoqFwIC&newbks=0&prin...

by mvc 2y ago

casey2 2y ago

"Though anti-Semitism has been unmasked and discredited, it is to be feared that its history is not yet at an end."[2] That's just a quote mine. If you read the whole article [1] It mentions other times where antisemitism was regarded as a "ephemeral craze" which later entered mainstream politics and agitation (duels between antisemites and jews and mob violence). It mentions revivals of organized antisemitism as recently as 1907. Nobody would read this article and come away with the impression that antisemitism was "a passing phase in the history of culture" unless they were talking about a thousand years in the future. Furthermore the entire article is extremely biased in the jews' favor (particularly noticeable when the article glosses over widespread investment banking fraud but calls antisemitism a "barbarian movement" and calls out popular antisemites by name and accuses them of fraud and having "evil notoriety". You also have the fact that most readers would consider Europe in the late 1800s to be more or less the same enlightened and liberal continent as it is now. So that particular section about antisemitism being a passing fad is just wishful thinking which would be picked up by most readers. Also it's well known that you can't predict the future, to my knowledge the 11th doesn't predict WW1 which is generally considered as being influential in the rise of the Nazis. People buy encyclopedias for their information not as an oracle. [1] https://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaBritannicaDict.a.s.l.g.i.11thed.chisholm.1910-1911-1922.33vols/02.EncycBrit.11th.1910.v.2.AND-AUS./page/n155/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaBritannicaDict.a.s.... [2] https://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaBritannicaDict.a.s.l.g.i.11thed.chisholm.1910-1911-1922.33vols/02.EncycBrit.11th.1910.v.2.AND-AUS./page/n167/mode/2up?q=passing+phase https://archive.org/details/EncyclopaediaBritannicaDict.a.s....

casey2 2y ago
I also found the original quote, which isn't in the article on antisemitism. https://books.google.com/books?id=NHDHBNoqFwIC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA410&dq=%22a+passing+phase+in+the+history+of+culture%22&hl=en#v=onepage&q=%22a%20passing%20phase%20in%20the%20history%20of%20culture%22&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=NHDHBNoqFwIC&newbks=0&prin...