This dissertation examines the homeland-diaspora nexus with a focus on how homeland conflict affects diaspora targeting and insecurity in Israel.

Between World Wars I and II, allied forces girded themselves to quash yet another enemy bent on world conquest: fascism. In England, however, the British fascists set about to save what they saw as a dying empire. In an effort to restore Britain's greatness, British fascism held to fascist principles and doctrine to stem the flow of immigration, which fascists saw as darkening the pure British culture. While many of the British fascists strongly admired Nazi Germany's version of fascism, they were unique in that they forged their solutions from social ills that were distinctly British. British fascists were unabashedly anti-Semitic. They feared a Jewish threat to Britain's economy and culture and sought to counter it on every front. History, according to the British fascists, was rife with conspiracies which threatened the established "order of things." Unfortunately, their fears of conspiracy were so fantastic that their rationale was at times clouded and to their detriment. Foremost in the thinking of British fascists, Britain itself and all things British stood paramount to the exclusion of all else. Only an enormous resurgence of British nationalism would serve to regain Britain's proud heritage and future. Widely held principles of British fascism included direct representation in government for all occupations. All Britons would work in the interest of Britain, placing individual interests secondary to the whole of British culture. British fascism called for all Britons to actively involve themselves in the organic body of the British fascist state. Honor, duty, and loyalty would guide all Britons to a heightened sense of nationalism which would enable the individual to flourish within the fascist state. British fascism offered a sense of greatness to the British people. When all Britons embraced the nationalism of British fascism, pride of country, strength of family, honor of the individual, and the greatness of the British Empire all would be restored.

O presente trabalho propõe comparar os escritos de dois ideólogos pertencentes a dois importantes movimentos políticos do século XX: um do integralismo brasileiro e outro do nacional-socialismo alemão respectivamente: Gustavo Barroso e Gottfried Feder. Após uma leitura atenta das obras de cada um dos autores, redigidas nos anos 1920 e 1930, compreendemos que o conceito de capital financeiro foi de fundamental importância para que ambos desenvolvessem uma narrativa conspiratória que denunciava um complô judaico de conquista do mundo. Valendo-nos da História Conceitual, percebemos que as obras de Barroso e Feder significaram um momento-chave na história do conceito de capital financeiro, especialmente tendo em vista que ambos escreviam à luz da primeira hegemonia financeira. Entretanto, enquanto Barroso defendia uma luta de caráter universal contra o capital financeiro, Feder achava que tal luta deveria ser protagonizada pelo povo alemão. Ademais, se, por um lado, Barroso conseguiu permanecer como uma figura de proa do movimento integralista até a sua extinção em 1937, Feder, por outro, acabou marginalizado no cenário político após a ascensão nazista ao poder em 1933. / This paper aims at comparing the writings of two ideologues who belonged to two important political movements from the 20th century: one from the Brazilian integralism, and the other from German national-socialism Gustavo Barroso and Gottfried Feder, respectively. After a careful reading of these authors works, written on the 1920es and 1930es, we managed to understand that the concept of financial capital was of main importance for both authors to develop a conspiratorial narrative that uncovered a Jewish plot to conquer the world. Based on the Conceptual History, we noticed that the works of Barroso and Feder represented a key moment in the History of the concept of financial capital, especially considering that both of them wrote during the first financial hegemony. However, while Barroso, on the one hand, thought that the struggle against financial capital should be a universal struggle, Feder, on the other, believed that such struggle should have only the German people as its leading actor. Moreover, while Barroso managed to play a major role in the integralist movement until its ending on 1937, Feder ended up marginalized in the Nazi political scenario after the national-socialist seizure of power on 1933.

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O presente trabalho propõe comparar os escritos de dois ideólogos pertencentes a dois importantes movimentos políticos do século XX: um do integralismo brasileiro e outro do nacional-socialismo alemão respectivamente: Gustavo Barroso e Gottfried Feder. Após uma leitura atenta das obras de cada um dos autores, redigidas nos anos 1920 e 1930, compreendemos que o conceito de capital financeiro foi de fundamental importância para que ambos desenvolvessem uma narrativa conspiratória que denunciava um complô judaico de conquista do mundo. Valendo-nos da História Conceitual, percebemos que as obras de Barroso e Feder significaram um momento-chave na história do conceito de capital financeiro, especialmente tendo em vista que ambos escreviam à luz da primeira hegemonia financeira. Entretanto, enquanto Barroso defendia uma luta de caráter universal contra o capital financeiro, Feder achava que tal luta deveria ser protagonizada pelo povo alemão. Ademais, se, por um lado, Barroso conseguiu permanecer como uma figura de proa do movimento integralista até a sua extinção em 1937, Feder, por outro, acabou marginalizado no cenário político após a ascensão nazista ao poder em 1933. / This paper aims at comparing the writings of two ideologues who belonged to two important political movements from the 20th century: one from the Brazilian integralism, and the other from German national-socialism Gustavo Barroso and Gottfried Feder, respectively. After a careful reading of these authors works, written on the 1920es and 1930es, we managed to understand that the concept of financial capital was of main importance for both authors to develop a conspiratorial narrative that uncovered a Jewish plot to conquer the world. Based on the Conceptual History, we noticed that the works of Barroso and Feder represented a key moment in the History of the concept of financial capital, especially considering that both of them wrote during the first financial hegemony. However, while Barroso, on the one hand, thought that the struggle against financial capital should be a universal struggle, Feder, on the other, believed that such struggle should have only the German people as its leading actor. Moreover, while Barroso managed to play a major role in the integralist movement until its ending on 1937, Feder ended up marginalized in the Nazi political scenario after the national-socialist seizure of power on 1933.

Anti-Semitism, or Jew hatred, much of which is expressed and communicated through folklore, has a long history and continues unabated today. Incendiary opinions, deadly misconceptions, and insidious accusations have plagued Jews throughout history. Anti-Semitic expressions and incidents are scattered throughout countless texts, but no single comprehensive reference work that compiles all forms of anti-Semitic folklore motifs exists. This thesis attempts to fill that gap by supplying an index of anti-Semitic motifs. To establish a baseline of already catalogued anti-Semitic motifs, all six volumes of Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folklore-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books and Local Legends were scanned and any relevant motifs listed were archived in a card index. Approximately 250 more previously unidentified motifs were documented from historical materials, published books and articles, artifacts, and personal communications. All motifs used in this study were developed from English sources, or from English speakers borrowing from other languages and cultures. The procedure to categorize the folklore motifs is based on a numbering system developed by folklorist Stith Thompson in 1955. Using Thompson's classifications of motifs as a base, the approximately 250 newly identified anti-Semitic folklore motifs I discovered have been integrated with Thompson motifs. Anti-Semitic materials covered begin with the Middle Ages and continue to the present day. Although not comprehensive, this motif index incorporates examples of anti-Semitic folklore from all genres, making motifs and examples easily accessible for anyone who wishes to analyze historical and current anti-Semitism. Indexing anti-Semitic folklore in a single reference work based on a universal folklore indexing system creates a body of information to be used as a resource tool for education and research of anti-Semitism. Furthermore, the index can easily be expanded as more material comes to light.

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The topic of Tillich and Judaism has received relatively little scholarly treatment. This is despite the importance of Jews and Judaism for Tillich, which is established by numerous biographical details, including the reason for his opposition to the Nazi government and ensuing emigration to the United States in 1933 (Introduction and Chapter 1). Tillich’s ecumenical activities are acknowledged, but Tillich’s dialectical theological method is analyzed to determine how it could have justified his pro-Jewish stance. This refers to his consistent attacks on anti-Semitism, and after World War II, numerous lectures on the structural similarities between Judaism and Christianity, not to mention lifetime relationships with secular and religious Jews (Chapters 1 and 2). Tillich has a dialectical understanding of reality, influenced by F. W. J. Schelling, and this influences every major aspect of his theology. Select primary sources are analyzed to assess the evolution of Tillich’s idea of Judaism through his dialectical, theological and inclusive history of religion (Chapters 3 through 6). ‘Jewish prophetism’, highlighting the critical and existential dimensions of Judaism, emerged as the most characteristic expression, significantly, after World War I, as Tillich rejected the religious nationalism of his early adulthood. After World War II and the Holocaust, Tillich’s ‘dialectic of the Holy’ expressed the fullness of the divine reality as the permanent polar tension between the priestly/mystical/vertical/’Is’, and the prophetic/critical/horizontal/’Ought’. This polar tension is found in his ontology, Christology, and history of religion. The importance of Jewish prophetism, rooted in historic Judaism, would have made it difficult for Tillich to eliminate the Jewish roots of Christianity, compared to the so-called ‘German Christians’ prevalent in Weimar and Nazi Germany. Chapter 7 concludes with a criticism and defence of Tillich’s method. Tillich’s idea of Judaism is inadequate for interfaith dialogue, because it fails to address the fullness of Judaism’s own self-understandings, and is limited to the prophetic aspect. However, the prophetic aspect ensures that the critical and existential aspects of any religion endure in a transformation to a more adequate expression of the divine. Tillich’s ‘religion of the concrete spirit’ not only preserves the importance of Jewish prophetism, but opens the door to dialogue with non-theistic religions, such as Buddhism.

Thesis advisor: Charles Gallagher / The chaos of the Great Depression allowed for the rise of demagogues on both sides of the American political spectrum. On the fringes of the American right came William Dudley Pelley and Father Charles Coughlin, two rabid anti-Semites staunchly opposed to Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. Using familiar rhetorical tropes, they marshaled their supporters and presented a violent resistance to the transformation of the American state. Railing against perceiving conspiracies involving Judaism, Communism, and international banking, these men set a precedent for extreme right-wing politics that resonated in their own time and still has consequences today. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2015. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Departmental Honors. / Discipline: History.

A tese examina a primeira obra escrita por Vilém Flusser com objetivo de buscar as raízes do pensamento do futuro filósofo e apontar as características nela presentes que se tornariam relevantes na sua obra futura. Trata-se da peça de teatro Saul, redigida em alemão, em 1936, em Praga, sua cidade natal. A primeira parte da pesquisa foca o ambiente no qual Flusser nasceu e onde se formou sua visão do mundo. Esboçamos uma breve história da comunidade judaica nas terras tchecas, mencionamos figuras importantes da vida literária do país, assim como tendências culturais marcantes, para entender particularidades do seu universo. Na parte biográfica da pesquisa acompanhamos a vida intelectual de Flusser, que se desdobrava entre a Europa e o Brasil, encerrando-a com o levantamento da fortuna crítica que mostra o alcance de seu legado. A segunda parte da pesquisa dedica-se à análise do drama Saul e sua contextualização dentro das correntes artísticas e filosóficas da sua época. No campo da arte, identificamos sua proximidade sobretudo com o movimento expressionista e o teatro épico brechtiano; no âmbito da história do pensamento, por sua vez, com os pensadores cuja obra pode ser considerada dialógica e crítica ao pensamento instrumental. Abordamos nomes como Ortega y Gasset, Martin Buber, Mikhail Bakhtin ou Walter Benjamin e nos detemos nos próprios princípios do diálogo socrático. Reconhecemos uma série de pontos comuns entre os pensadores em questão e a obra de Vilém Flusser, tanto no drama Saul como nos ensaios posteriores. Destacamos sobretudo o caráter dialógico e não conclusivo dos seus textos, a busca pelas novas formas de expressão e pelo discurso científico alternativo. Com essa finalidade o pensador desenvolve uma série de estratégias que visam subverter as normas do discurso filosófico tradicional e acadêmico. Para ele, a posição filosófica carrega uma dimensão ética ela é um meio de engajamento social. Encerramos o trabalho com a reflexão sobre a influência do Fausto de J.W. Goethe no jovem praguense. Salientamos a transformação do papel da ciência no período que separa a vida de Goethe da de Flusser e mostramos como a preocupação com o reducionismo e a instrumentalização da ciência tornou-se um dos temas centrais dos textos de Flusser. / The thesis examines the very first Vilém Flusser\'s work purposing to search for the roots of his thought as well as to point the features in it that would become relevant in his future creation. It is a theatre play Saul written in German, in 1936, in Prague, his hometown. The first part of my research focuses the environment within which Flusser was born and in which his vision of the world was shaped. We have outlined a brief history of the Jewish community in the Czech lands, we have mentioned local important literary life figures and significant cultural tendencies to understand his particular universe. The biographical part of the research follows Flusser\'s intellectual activities unfolded between Europe and Brazil, and it is closed with a mapping of the critical resources that reveals the reach of his legacy. The second part of the thesis is dedicated to the analysis of the drama Saul and its contextualization within artistic and philosophical movements of that time. In the fields of art, we have identified the proximity, especially, to Expressionism and to Brecht\'s epic theatre; in the area of the thought\'s history, in turn, to thinkers whose work can be considered dialogical and critical in respect of the instrumental thinking. We have approached names as Ortega y Gasset, Martin Buber, Mikhail Bakhtin or Walter Benjamin and we have dwelled also on the principles of the Socratic dialogue. We have recognized a number of common aspects between the thinkers under discussion and the Vilém Flusser\'s work, both as in the drama Saul and as in the further essays. We emphasise mainly the dialogical and non-conclusive character of his texts, his pursuit of the new forms of expression and of an alternative scientific discourse. With that purpose, the thinker built up a number of strategies up, that aim to subvert the rules of the traditional and academic philosophical discourse. For him, a philosophical position is filled with an ethical dimension, it is an instrument of social engagement. We terminate the research with a reflection on the influence of J.W. Goethe\'s Faust on the young Prague citizen. We have pointed out the transformation of the role of the science in the period that separates Goethe\'s and Flusser\'s lives and have demonstrated how the concerns about the reductionism and the instrumentalization of the science became one of the central themes of Flusser\'s works.