Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World: With a New Preface - Brossura

Herf, Jeffrey

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ISBN 10: 0300168055 ISBN 13: 9780300168051

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2011

Riassunto

Jeffrey Herf, a leading scholar in the field, offers the most extensive examination to date of Nazi propaganda activities targeting Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East during World War II and the Holocaust. He draws extensively on previously unused and little-known archival resources, including the shocking transcriptions of the “Axis Broadcasts in Arabic” radio programs, which convey a strongly anti-Semitic message.

Herf explores the intellectual, political, and cultural context in which German and European radical anti-Semitism was found to resonate with similar views rooted in a selective appropriation of the traditions of Islam. Pro-Nazi Arab exiles in wartime Berlin, including Haj el-Husseini and Rashid el-Kilani, collaborated with the Nazis in constructing their Middle East propaganda campaign. By integrating the political and military history of the war in the Middle East with the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the propagandistic diffusion of Nazi ideology, Herf offers the most thorough examination to date of this important chapter in the history of World War II. Importantly, he also shows how the anti-Semitism promoted by the Nazi propaganda effort contributed to the anti-Semitism exhibited by adherents of radical forms of Islam in the Middle East today.

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Recensione:

Professor Herfs book is a thorough and important description of Nazi propaganda to the Arab world during World War II, and quite accurately and ominously highlights the parallels between Nazi anti-Semitic tenets and Islamist anti-Semitism. --Benny Morris, Ben-Gurion University

Reading Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World is a reminder of how powerful such lies can be ... We have not yet heard the end of the ideas whose birth Herf documents in this frightening, necessary book. --Adam Kirsch, Tablet

L'autore:

Jeffrey Herf is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland in College Park.

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• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0300168055
• ISBN 13: 9780300168051
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 335