How to Understand the Charges against Benjamin Netanyahu
And the threat they pose to Israeli democracy.
March 4, 2019
Theodor Adorno and the Failure of “Prejudice” to Account for Anti-Semitism
Intersectionality, Frankfurt School style.
The son of a Catholic mother and Jewish father who had converted to Lutheranism, the German philosopher and sociologist Theodor Adorno emigrated to the U.S. after the Nazis came to power. Thereafter he devoted serious attention to anti-Semitism, which he had fled, and American racism, which he was encountering for the first time. Eric Oberle, in a recent book, explores the connections between the two in Adorno’s thought. In his review, James Loeffler finds a thread running from Adorno’s theories to the inability of much current thinking about racism, prejudice, and “intersectionality” to account for the hatred of Jews:
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The Jewish Arabs Who Founded the Mossad
The mista’arvim and Israel’s Mizraḥi revival.
Hamas, Which Destroys the Environment, Wins the Support of the American Green Party
Opposing Israel is high on its list of priorities.
Theodor Adorno and the Failure of “Prejudice” to Account for Anti-Semitism
Intersectionality, Frankfurt School style.
A Great Jewish Historian Tells the Story of an Unusual Hasidic Rabbi
Berishl Ba’al T’shuvah.