The nature of hate

Prof. Ruth Wodak

Before we turn to explore the specific form of hate that targets Jews and Judaism, let’s ask ourselves the following questions:

Why do people hate? How is hate triggered? Is it innate or learned?

References

• Allport, Gordon W., The Nature of Prejudice (Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1958).
• Levin, Jack and Gordana Rabrenovic, Why we Hate (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2008).
• Sternberg, Robert J. and Karin Sternberg, The Nature of Hate (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
• Waller, James, Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Murder (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
• Wodak, Ruth, “Prejudice, Racism, and Discourse,” in Anton Pelinka, Karin Bischof and Karin Stögner, eds., Handbook of Prejudice (Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2009), pp. 409 – 443.