Podoby antisemitismu v Čechách a na Slovensku v 20. a 21. století

This group monograph, addressing the forms of anti-Semitism in the Czech Lands and in Slovakia, analyzes the discoursive and visual forms of the image of Jews in the Czech and Slovak majority population. The texts focus on the formation of just what is a "Jew” or "Jewish” in the course of the 20th and 21st centuries and on the formation of the majority population’s image in relation to this "foreign” image. The scholars analyze the issues of continuity and transformation of these mirroring images and examine the relation of identity and (political) power. Using the examples of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the Nazi Slovak Republic, Communist Czechoslovakia as well as the contemporary situation, the scholars convincingly demonstrate that anti-Semitism is not related to a true or alleged enemy, but to (self-)legitimation constructs. This book, which builds on excerpts from published periodicals, oral biographical interviews, memoires and archived documents, is suitable for the experts and teachers as well as anyone interested in the phenomenon of anti-Semitism, its manifestations and developments in the 20th century and at the present time.