Podcasts about Goldhagen

Sarah Williams Goldhagen visits Google to discuss how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to the human experience. Taking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world's best and worst landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Goldhagen draws from recent research in cognitive neuroscience and psychology to demonstrate how people's experiences of the places they build are central to their well-being, their physical health, their communal and social lives, and even their very sense of themselves. From this foundation, Goldhagen presents a powerful case that societies must use this knowledge to rethink what and how they build: the world needs better-designed, healthier environments that address the complex range of human individual and social needs. Originally published in June of 2017. Visit http://youtube.com/TalksAtGoogle/ to watch the video.

Welcome to your World. What Design Can do. Guest, Sarah Goldhagen, (PHD former Harvard professor) a leading voice in the emerging movement in neuro aesthetics and architectural design. Her book,  Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives  won a Nautilus Book Award in 2017 for its contribution to social and environmental justice, has made her a sought-after speaker; she lectures frequently and publishes widely about the effects of architecture, landscape, and urban design on human health, cognition, and wellbeing.The New Republic's architecture critic for nearly a decade, Goldhagen's criticism has appeared in the New York Times, Art in America, Architectural Record, the Chronicle of Higher Education,Prospect (UK), and dozens of other publications. She is a faculty member of the Moving Boundaries consortium, and sits on the boards of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA), the Centre for Conscious Design, and on the Intentional Spaces Advisory Committee of the Johns Hopkins International Arts + Mind Lab. She recently released her first film, What Design Can Do (co-written and produced with Sarah Robinson), which premiered at the IAM Lab's Intentional Spaces Summit. 

A documentary about the horrific and destructive war that is currently taking place in Ukraine. The film tells the true stories of Ukrainians who have been forced to flee their homes, lose loved ones, and live in fear for their lives. It is a story about the courage, strength of will, and resilience of the Ukrainian people...If you can, please send the link to a friend or two. FILM: To the Zero Line - Brave Hearts in Dark Hours Director - Benjamin I. Goldhagen (2023) – 2h 26m https://www.tothezeroline.com/ WATCH FOR FREE NOW - AND SHARE THE LINK WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY. ---------- In war, the mind gets focused on the essence of life. Family, friends, food, heritage, what you'll fight for, what you might die to keep. The choices one makes each morning when the sun rises. To The Zero Line takes place during a time of war, during the full-scale invasion of a European country, Ukraine. At stake are the hospitals, churches, music, art, children, pregnant women, expectant fathers, against a force determined to murder all of it. Genocide. You experience the perpetual cycle of life of the invaded, the birth of two children, a wedding, death, the loss of a loved one, Soldiers in battle on the zero line, and back in the cities, towns, and villages each person has his or her own personal zero line. You experience people from outside the country flooding in to help in what ways they can. Each adding a small part to a big puzzle. If you're in the UK, USA, Germany, or France, you might ask yourself, How am I so different? What would I do if death comes knocking on my door or my parents' door or my school door or my church's door. The film is an opportunity to think for yourself. Everybody in life is going to the Zero Line. The point of contact with your worst fears. Where the enemy is. Horrible hours, and brutal seconds. Where you need true friends and your best moments. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: Orest Zub https://youtu.be/A7MrcwdDvPQ Aliona Hlivco https://youtu.be/yGLUBCfTkD8 Olga Tokariuk https://youtu.be/D5onDse6WJs Anna Danylchuk https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs Roman Sheremeta https://youtu.be/olrTPku8EMM ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

In this episode we look at the Yom Ha-Shoah and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Why did the Knesset establish Yom Ha-Shoah on the 27th of Nisan? Is this the best time to remember the Holocaust? Was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising historically justified? What was the Historical footprint of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising? Did the Germans react to it? Did it make any change in how the Poles interacted with the Jews?   Research notes:   The best one volume book on the Holocaust is Martin Gilbert’s famed volume, The Holocaust https://www.amazon.com/dp/0006371949/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_XGSZNQTJE7NN9HAFHKF3, weaves narrative and has an incredible amount of very important information.  His narrative on The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is only based on Zuckerman’s narrative and makes no mention of ZZW.    Saul Freidlander’s The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000UZQH8E/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_7VZ62R64562HH89CPRGM is another very important one volume work on the Holocaust that was consulted.    In terms of understanding the general attitude in Germany at the time Goldhagen’s somewhat controversial book, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679772685/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_SG1BJQR7SS2JW8EH98SS, is very key. Similarly, Lawrence Rees, Auschwitz: A New History https://www.amazon.com/dp/1586483579/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_98YXQ14TSASRW4VDB01S, is outstanding and has many unique interviews that a Jewish Historian would never get.      One of the most important digests of general information that I use on the Warsaw Ghetto pre uprising is, Kiddush Hashem: Jewish Religious and Cultural Life in Poland During the Holocaust (English and Yiddish Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0881251186/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_MR266PFSBV6RZMCYHN5W.       In terms of the basic story of the Great Deportation of summer 42, The Warsaw Ghetto Diaries by Hillel Seidman (1997-12-04) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FIZQO9M/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_MH06VM2CX040AG2P2T2Q     Moshe Arens carefully and relatively objectively examines the ZOB vs ZZW issues and also most of the basic story from before the Great Deportation through the Revolt in his monumental Flags Over the Warsaw Ghetto https://www.amazon.com/dp/1094763284/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_SNN0RM9WXAJWBBV0EQ9E     The information about the Sobibor revolt and about Toibi Thomas Blatt’s experiences is from the standard work on Sobibor, Escape from Sobibor: Revised and Updated Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/1480458511/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_1X0J722H02NFM19J0BQ4, which also is full of very important interviews of most of the Sobibor survivors.  ______________________________________ Rabbi Arnie Wittenstein is a well known Torah scholar, Tanach expert, and Historian. He has lectured in the Mir Yeshiva, Torat Shraga, and and many Shuls internationally. These podcasts integrate his broad knowledge of many different facets of Torah and History. Join in weekly to gain accurate & in depth knowledge of some of the most important and controversial topics in Jewish History. Nach Yomi: Join R Wittenstein’s Nach Yomi on WhatsApp. We learn a perek a day five days a week, with a nine minute shiur covering the key issues. We are currently learning Shir HaShirim. Click here to join!  For tours, speaking engagements, or sponsorships contact us at jewishhistoryuncensored@gmail.com (CedarMediaStudios Podcasting 2021)

Join historian John Lestrange for Episode 6 of Genostory: We Agreed to do This. This month we'll be discussing the most infamous of 20th century genocides, the Holocaust.Also, as a reminder to everyone listening Black Lives Matter and All Cops are BastardsSpecial thanks to the app Hatchful and MJ Bradley for designing and editing out logo.Show music is "Crusade - Heavy Industry by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License.Sources:The Treaty of Versailles https://www.loc.gov/law/help/us-treaties/bevans/m-ust000002-0043.pdf Steiner, John Michael (1976). Power Politics and Social Change in National Socialist Germany: A Process of Escalation into Mass Destruction. The Hague: Mouton. Kershaw, Ian (2008). Hitler: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Shirer, William L. (1960). The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. New York: Simon & Schuster. Leonidas Hill (2001). "The Nazi Attack on 'Un-German' Literature, 1933-1945" IN: The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation. Book Burning USHMM https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/book-burning "Station 7: Courtyard and Bunker". Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site. http://www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de/en/historical-site/virtual-tour/ History.com The Holocaust https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust Goldhagen, Daniel (1996). Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New York: Knopf. Longerich, Peter (2010). Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. Lifton, Robert J. (2000) [1986]. The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (2000 ed.). New York: Basic Books. Auschwitz Memorial and Museum http://auschwitz.org/en/ Kubica, Helena (1998) [1994]. "The Crimes of Josef Mengele". In Gutman, Yisrael; Berenbaum, Michael (eds.). Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. Holocaust Death Tolls

This episode's guest is Sarah Williams Goldhagen, the author of “Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives." She is an author and architect critic who has taught at Wellesley, Harvard and is currently a visiting scholar at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Sarah shares what "exactly situated cognition" is and why understanding that concept can lead to powerful understandings about how we operate in our buildings, our communities, and our spaces. We talk about “sticky moments” and how designers and placemakers can reconsider our values to improve our environments and our lives. For Bridget's review of Goldhagen's book, head over to our blog: Placemakers.

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In this episode, I discuss the Stanley Milgram and Phil Zimbardo experiments and what they say about our human nature. These experiments are also tied into the Browning vs Goldhagen debate on how he German population was convinced to do such terrible acts during the holocaust. Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanfordprisonexperiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZwfNs1pqG0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRh5qy09nNw https://verybadwizards.fireside.fm/9 If you learned something from this episode, please consider supporting me here: https://www.patreon.com/jordanmyers Every dollar that comes in will go towards bettering the show or towards funding my Philosophy PhD. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtM5SXgyN93usom5vpRqlEQ/ You can also get in contact with me through Twitter: @JordanCMyers Or by emailing me at platoscavepodcast@gmail.com Plato's Cave is produced by a non-profit organization centered around public education on high-minded topics, Muckraker Media, which I co-founded. You can find out more by visiting muckrakermedia.org

Une émission de présentation des débats autour de l’extermination des juifs d’Europe, de son caractère prévu de longue date ou fruit des circonstances, de ses causes lointaines (notamment l’antisémitisme) et immédiates, de sa spécificité et de sa comparaison avec d’autres crimes de masse – avec Paul et Johannes, bons connaisseurs de ce sujet. La première partie de l’émission (50 minutes) comporte : Une présentation des enjeux contemporains de ces problématiques (l’antisémitisme, la concurrence des mémoires) ; Une histoire de l’Allemagne de l’Ouest et de sa non-dénazification ; Une présentation critique des thèses de Nolte, faisant du nazisme une simple (légitime ?) réaction au bolchévisme ; Une présentation des thèses intentionnalistes (importance de l’idéologie, intention précoce d’extermination des juifs, centralité de Hitler) et fonctionnalistes (radicalisation du fait des difficultés concrètes, concurrence des bureaucraties, moindre importance de Hitler, absence de plan d’extermination) et de leurs limites (personnification excessive du côté intentionnaliste, minoration du rôle de l’antisémitisme du côté fonctionnaliste) ; Une discussion des thèses de Christopher Browning au sujet des motivations d’acteurs « ordinaires » de l’Holocauste (des réservistes du 101ème bataillon de police) et une critique de l’idée qu’il s’agissait d’ordres indiscutables (pas de sanctions en cas de non-participation aux tueries mobiles) ; Une discussion des thèses de Goldhagen au sujet des Allemands comme « bourreaux volontaires » ; Une analyse du discours conspirationniste et apocalyptique des nazis (faisant des juifs des fauteurs de guerre et de conspirateurs œuvrant pour une destruction de l’Allemagne) ; Une discussion du moment de décision de l’extermination des juifs d’Europe ; Une présentation des thèses de Friedlander (accordant un rôle central à l’antisémitisme « rédempteur », notamment hitlérien, d’inspiration volkisch et chrétienne) ; Une discussion des explications de l’extermination en termes de Sonderweg (par une trajectoire historique allemande spécifique), de fascisme, d’utilité économique et de totalitarisme ; Une critique du négationnisme (tendanciel ou même avéré) des approches marxistes réductionnistes économicistes de la destruction des juifs d’Europe. La deuxième partie de l’émission (50 minutes) comporte : Une présentation de l’analyse de George Mosse au sujet de l’antisémitisme allemand et de ses racines historiques (modernisation rapide et ses ravages identifiés aux juifs, nationalisme exacerbé par une conception raciale du peuple et une unification tardive, réaction à l’émancipation des juifs et à leur ascension sociale) ; Une analyse de l’antisémitisme nazi comme fusion des antisémitismes : antisémitisme racial et eugéniste, antisémitisme conspirationniste, antisémitisme contre-révolutionnaire, antisémitisme nationaliste romantique anti-moderne, antisémitisme apocalyptique, antisémitisme chrétien, antisémitisme « anti-impérialiste », antisémitisme conservateur ; Une analyse de l’antisémitisme nazi comme produit de l’antisémitisme structurel, c’est-à-dire d’une personnification tendancielle (en absence de compréhension du caractère impersonnel et dynamique du capitalisme) faisant des juifs ceux qui se cachent derrière des processus structurels (crises, modernisation rapide, luttes de classe, financiarisation, mondialisation, urbanisation) du capitalisme – et qu’on ne parvient pas à expliquer de manière structurelle –, à partir d’une critique tronqué du capitalisme (basée sur une opposition fallacieuse des dimensions « concrètes » et « abstraites » du capitalisme) ; Un rappel de l’industrialisme et du techno-prophétisme des nazis (Herf) ; Une comparaison analytique (et non morale) de l’antisémitisme avec d’autres formes de racismes ; Un appel à un dépassement de la concurrence des mémoires, et à analyser chaque crime de masse (esclavage, génocides, épurations ethniques) spécifiquement et en-dehors de toute hiérarchie morale ; Une définition du génocide comme issu d’une volonté étatique d’extermination totale d’un peuple donné ; Une comparaison avec d’autres génocides (celui des Rroms, des Herrero, des Arménien et des Tutsis) et d’autres crimes de masse (programme T4, pogroms anti-juifs, esclavage, colonisation).

Sarah Williams Goldhagen is a contributing editor at Architectural Record and served as the Architecture Critic of The New Republic from 2005-2013. Her articles have also appeared in The New York Times, The American Prospect, and Art In America, and she has contributed scholarly essays to many publications, including Assemblage, The Harvard Design Magazine, and The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. Goldhagen's new book is Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives.

Sarah W. Goldhagen taught for ten years at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and spent many years as the Architecture Critic for the New Republic. She’s written about buildings, cities, and landscapes for publications all over the world. Sarah’s new book, Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives is a thoroughly entertaining, eye-opening manifesto arguing that the buildings we live and work in deeply affect us, physically and psychologically, and that we can’t afford the soul-crushing architecture we mostly subject ourselves to.  Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/sarahgoldhagen In this episode, Sarah discusses: -How her book, Welcome to Your World is a shift from the work she previously did. -“Blindsight” and how we take in information subconsciously or nonconsciously. -How there is no such thing as a neutral built environment.  It is either helping you or hurting you. -The story of when she had to change her setting while writing her dissertation. -What creative people can do to put themselves in a better environment while they are creating. -Complex natural light, views of nature, and tactile experiences. -How her interest in cognitive neuroscience and inspiration from Alvar Aalto is what drove her to write the book. -Some of the big challenges that she was faced with in taking on such a big project. -Her advice to someone who is thinking about taking on a project that requires a large amount of research and learning. -How she was slammed by her colleagues after an early presentation of material from her book, and how she courageously went forward with the book anyway. -The traveling and photography that she did for the book. -The pros and cons of using pictures of architecture. Sarah's Final Push will inspire you to think about why you create and to strive less and teach more!   Quotes: “People should recognize that the built environment and its quality and design, has a far greater impact on people than anybody previously realized.” “There is no such thing as a neutral streetscape, building, or landscape.  If it’s not doing something good for you, chances are it’s doing something really not good for you.” “Creativity is such a demanding cognitive state that you don’t want anything in the built environment that’s going to be tugging at you in any way.” “I ended up delving into a lot of different fields and then it was up to me to figure out what the paradigm of how people experience their environments actual is based on these studies, most of which didn’t have much to do with the built environment.” “It doesn’t have to be perfect, but you just have to do what you believe might help or might bring people to new ideas and new places.” Links mentioned: Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives by Sarah Williams Goldhagen How Nature Resets Our Minds and Bodies - The Atlantic Alvar Aalto Connect with Sarah: Website / Facebook / Twitter / Linkedin On the next episode: Lori Richmond : Website / Instagram Where do you go to create your best work?  Join that discussion at the Facebook group!   27gkn7iz

Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives. Sarah W. Goldhagen taught for ten years at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and spent many years as the Architecture Critic for the New Republic. She’s written about buildings, cities, and landscapes for publications all over the world. Sarah’s new book Welcome To Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives is a thoroughly entertaining, eye-opening manifesto arguing that the buildings we live and work in deeply affect us, physically and psychologically, and that we can’t afford the soul-crushing architecture we mostly subject ourselves to. In this episode: why we tolerate design that’s bad for us, startling parallels between a passage from a Chekhov short story and Sarah's book, the many ways concrete can be beautiful, and why schools shouldn’t look like prisons (maybe prisons shouldn’t, either?). "Surprise idea" clips in this show: Jeffrey Sachs on optimism in America and Alison Gopnik on School and the Developing Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Genocide scholar and author Daniel Goldhagen discusses the history of antisemitism and its relevance today. Facing History's Doc Miller concludes the podcast. A middle school teacher for over 30 years, Miller discusses the importance of bringing conversations about this history into the classroom.

There are 13 million Jews in the world today. There are also 13 million Senegalese, 13 million Zambians, 13 million Zimbabweans, and 13 million Chadians. These are tiny–a realist might say “insignificant”–nations. But here’s the funny–though that doesn’t seem like the right world–thing. One of them is the focus of a persistent, virulent, worldwide prejudice, an intense hostility that is totally out of proportion with its size and, the realist would add, significance. And you know exactly which one it is. In his eye-opening book The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism (Little, Brown and Co., 2013), Daniel Jonah Goldhagen explores the historical origins of anti-semitism in Europe and its remarkable spread after the Second World War. It is, at least to me, a bizarre and discouraging story. There is, of course, no rational basis for anti-semitism per se. Yet it is everywhere, part of national cultures and discourses throughout the world. This is true where there are Jews (always in tiny numbers) and it is true where there are no Jews at all (as in most of the developing world). Goldhagen does a masterful job of describing the migration of anti-semitism from Europe to everywhere else and works hard to explain it. I don’t know if even he would say he succeeded in the latter task because, well, the entire phenomenon seems to defy rational explanation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are 13 million Jews in the world today. There are also 13 million Senegalese, 13 million Zambians, 13 million Zimbabweans, and 13 million Chadians. These are tiny–a realist might say “insignificant”–nations. But here’s the funny–though that doesn’t seem like the right world–thing. One of them is the focus of a persistent, virulent, worldwide prejudice, an intense hostility that is totally out of proportion with its size and, the realist would add, significance. And you know exactly which one it is. In his eye-opening book The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism (Little, Brown and Co., 2013), Daniel Jonah Goldhagen explores the historical origins of anti-semitism in Europe and its remarkable spread after the Second World War. It is, at least to me, a bizarre and discouraging story. There is, of course, no rational basis for anti-semitism per se. Yet it is everywhere, part of national cultures and discourses throughout the world. This is true where there are Jews (always in tiny numbers) and it is true where there are no Jews at all (as in most of the developing world). Goldhagen does a masterful job of describing the migration of anti-semitism from Europe to everywhere else and works hard to explain it. I don’t know if even he would say he succeeded in the latter task because, well, the entire phenomenon seems to defy rational explanation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are 13 million Jews in the world today. There are also 13 million Senegalese, 13 million Zambians, 13 million Zimbabweans, and 13 million Chadians. These are tiny–a realist might say “insignificant”–nations. But here’s the funny–though that doesn’t seem like the right world–thing. One of them is the focus of a persistent, virulent, worldwide prejudice, an intense hostility that is totally out of proportion with its size and, the realist would add, significance. And you know exactly which one it is. In his eye-opening book The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism (Little, Brown and Co., 2013), Daniel Jonah Goldhagen explores the historical origins of anti-semitism in Europe and its remarkable spread after the Second World War. It is, at least to me, a bizarre and discouraging story. There is, of course, no rational basis for anti-semitism per se. Yet it is everywhere, part of national cultures and discourses throughout the world. This is true where there are Jews (always in tiny numbers) and it is true where there are no Jews at all (as in most of the developing world). Goldhagen does a masterful job of describing the migration of anti-semitism from Europe to everywhere else and works hard to explain it. I don’t know if even he would say he succeeded in the latter task because, well, the entire phenomenon seems to defy rational explanation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are 13 million Jews in the world today. There are also 13 million Senegalese, 13 million Zambians, 13 million Zimbabweans, and 13 million Chadians. These are tiny–a realist might say “insignificant”–nations. But here’s the funny–though that doesn’t seem like the right world–thing. One of them is the focus of a persistent, virulent, worldwide prejudice, an intense hostility that is totally out of proportion with its size and, the realist would add, significance. And you know exactly which one it is. In his eye-opening book The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism (Little, Brown and Co., 2013), Daniel Jonah Goldhagen explores the historical origins of anti-semitism in Europe and its remarkable spread after the Second World War. It is, at least to me, a bizarre and discouraging story. There is, of course, no rational basis for anti-semitism per se. Yet it is everywhere, part of national cultures and discourses throughout the world. This is true where there are Jews (always in tiny numbers) and it is true where there are no Jews at all (as in most of the developing world). Goldhagen does a masterful job of describing the migration of anti-semitism from Europe to everywhere else and works hard to explain it. I don’t know if even he would say he succeeded in the latter task because, well, the entire phenomenon seems to defy rational explanation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are 13 million Jews in the world today. There are also 13 million Senegalese, 13 million Zambians, 13 million Zimbabweans, and 13 million Chadians. These are tiny–a realist might say “insignificant”–nations. But here’s the funny–though that doesn’t seem like the right world–thing. One of them is the focus of a persistent, virulent, worldwide prejudice, an intense hostility that is totally out of proportion with its size and, the realist would add, significance. And you know exactly which one it is. In his eye-opening book The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism (Little, Brown and Co., 2013), Daniel Jonah Goldhagen explores the historical origins of anti-semitism in Europe and its remarkable spread after the Second World War. It is, at least to me, a bizarre and discouraging story. There is, of course, no rational basis for anti-semitism per se. Yet it is everywhere, part of national cultures and discourses throughout the world. This is true where there are Jews (always in tiny numbers) and it is true where there are no Jews at all (as in most of the developing world). Goldhagen does a masterful job of describing the migration of anti-semitism from Europe to everywhere else and works hard to explain it. I don’t know if even he would say he succeeded in the latter task because, well, the entire phenomenon seems to defy rational explanation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are 13 million Jews in the world today. There are also 13 million Senegalese, 13 million Zambians, 13 million Zimbabweans, and 13 million Chadians. These are tiny–a realist might say “insignificant”–nations. But here’s the funny–though that doesn’t seem like the right world–thing. One of them is the focus of a persistent, virulent, worldwide prejudice, an intense hostility that is totally out of proportion with its size and, the realist would add, significance. And you know exactly which one it is. In his eye-opening book The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism (Little, Brown and Co., 2013), Daniel Jonah Goldhagen explores the historical origins of anti-semitism in Europe and its remarkable spread after the Second World War. It is, at least to me, a bizarre and discouraging story. There is, of course, no rational basis for anti-semitism per se. Yet it is everywhere, part of national cultures and discourses throughout the world. This is true where there are Jews (always in tiny numbers) and it is true where there are no Jews at all (as in most of the developing world). Goldhagen does a masterful job of describing the migration of anti-semitism from Europe to everywhere else and works hard to explain it. I don’t know if even he would say he succeeded in the latter task because, well, the entire phenomenon seems to defy rational explanation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1996, Daniel Goldhagen unleashed a fury of controversy when he published the book Hitler’s Willing Executioners, in which he argued that the Holocaust took place not because Germans were especially obedient to authority, or because a few bad apples came into power, but because an eliminationist prejudice against Jews was woven into the very fabric of German culture. Germans “considered the slaughter to be just,” Goldhagen wrote. His book hit a nerve—critics called Goldhagen out for using overly broad generalizations to indict an entire country—but that criticism didn’t hurt the book’s reception; it was a phenomenal success in Germany and around the world. Nearly 20 years later, Goldhagen has broadened his scope in a new work. The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism offers an in-depth look at anti-Semitism around the world. He argues... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.