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Sander Gilman: "Jewish Self-Hatred"

SANDER GILMAN interview This interview took place in 2010 at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where Gilman was (is?) a professor. His major interests have been in Jewish studies and also medicine. He has authored and/or edited over eighty books and has been on the faculty at Cornell University, the University of Chicago, Emory University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago where he founded its program in Jewish Studies. At Emory, he was a professor of Psychiatry and was the Director of that college’s Program in Psychoanalysis (he has been a practicing psychoanalyst). Among other teaching assignments, Gilman served as a professor of European Comparative Literature at Oxford University and a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong. Overall, he has taught at colleges in North America, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, China, and New Zealand. He was the president of the Modern Language Association in 1995. The Jerusalem Post once noted that Gilman’s writing subjects ranged “from Holocaust literature to biographical studies of Sigmund Freud and Franz Kafka, from Jewish culture to racial identity, from the history of smoking to the history of anti-Semitism, from German philosophy to the phenomena of Jewish intelligence and Jewish humor, from obesity to aesthetic surgery, to literature and medicine.” As an Israeli professor commented, during a hosting of Gilman in Israel, Gilman “has lectured or been invited as a guest professor on every continent, except Antarctica. His impressive intellectual range, astounding depth of knowledge and acute critical sense in the various fields of his interest are perhaps unmatched by any scholar working today. He is a phenomenon in his own right.” The focus on this interview here was professor Gilman’s book JEWISH SELF-HATRED. Professor Gilman here addresses: the relationship between “Jewish self-hatred” and antisemitism; Jewish absorption of negative attitudes of Jews in surrounding cultures (“One of the coping mechanisms in a hostile world is to identify with the aggressor”); Victim culture; “Antisemitism has become a rhetorical factor in American Jewish life as the overall incidents of antisemitism have become more and more infrequent”; The Anti-Defamation League “has made this its mission to make sure that antisemitism does not disappear as one of the status of being victim”. Is antisemitism necessary to hold the diverse Jewish community together? (“Certainly, there are organizational reasons in the West – not just in the United States – where combating antisemitism is a glue for organizing common purpose”). Psychology of the origins of Zionism; pre-World War II conflicts and stereotypes between Western European Jews and Eastern European Jews; early Zionist Max Nordeau (“The whole fantasy of the ‘sabra’ – the modern Israeli – is, in point of fact, the living out of Max Nordeau’s notion of the necessary transformation of Jews like him – urban Jews, intellectuals – into healthy ‘muscular Jews.'’” “The concept of Jewish self-hatred has went from being an analytic category – trying to understand how individuals function in a complicated world – to being simply a term of opprobrium – a curse word. If you don’t like your enemy, he is a Jewish self-hater. And, by the way, I’ve heard this spoken in the mouths of religious people about secular people, I’ve heard it in the mouths of secular people about religious people, I’ve heard it in the mouths of the Left about the Right, and vice versa”, “the hammer of calling your opponent ‘self-hater.’” Gilman’s definition of antisemitism; philo-semitism (antithetical to antisemitism); generalizations/stereotypes; Who is a Jew?; conversion to Judaism; the Jewish “birthright.” The ’Jewish American Princess’ concept; Jewish humor; Sigmund Freud; Otto Weininger believed that “Jews and women share certain characteristics”; Jewish author Karl Krauss believed that Zionism itself was antisemitic; Theodore Lessing’s original book entitled ‘Jewish Self-Hatred”; Karl Marx as a “self-hating Jew.” Jews in the field of psychoanalysis; John Murray Cuddihy’s notion of the Jewish “Ordeal of Civility”; “the myth of Jewish superior intelligence”; perceptions of Jews and money/capital/lenders; Diary of Ann Frank (Jewish particularism versus universality).