Back to the roots

Krekó, Péter
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Title Back to the roots : are antisemites still authoritarians?.
Original Library/publisher Journal for the Study of Antisemitism. Marlton, NJ. 4,2
Host Item Journal for the Study of Antisemitism (ULS)001112611 4,2 (2012) 495-514
Description Criticizes the conclusion of "The Authoritarian Personality", by Adorno et al. (1950), that the submissive devotion to non-democratic political leadership is the strongest predictor of antisemitism. Among recent developments that speak against that are the emergence of leftist antisemitism, and the fact that some rightist anti-liberal organizations have abandoned their traditional antisemitism. Based on the database of the European Values Study conducted in 2008-9, compares the situation in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. Concludes that some components of the authoritarian personality syndrome, e.g. authoritarian anti-establishment attitudes, can indeed be significant determinants of discriminative antisemitism (as well as of anti-Gypsyism and of racism), while others stand in reverse correlation with antisemitism. Contemporary antisemitism is embedded in an attitude set that expresses rejection of the status quo with its social hierarchy and norms, and therefore does not reflect uncritical acceptance of the power structures. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Language English
National Library system number 990005398160705171
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