Antisemitism: The Oldest Hatred by John Mann

Author:John Mann [Mann, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Jewish Studies, Judaism, Non-Fiction, Religion, Social History, Social Science, Sociology
ISBN: 1472920759
Google: -P4qCgAAQBAJ
Amazon: B011OZX6XW
Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
Published: 2015-08-12T23:00:00+00:00

John F. Kennedy

Post-war America was both a time of almost unprecedented social change and improvement and a hotbed of tensions and issues. During the Second World War the effects of the New Deal and wartime labour saw wages more than double and the 1950s was a hugely prosperous decade that saw substantial advances in many areas. This new prosperity saw huge cultural, social and attitude changes, heavily influenced by the post-war freedom and the gradual shift away from America’s traditional inward facing as well as the increasing paranoia about Communism and the Cold War. In 1955 Rosa Parks’s refusal to give up her seat in a coloured section of a bus to a white passenger sparked new impetus in the Civil Rights movement that would boil through society till, in the eyes of the law at least, all men and women were equal.

Prior to 1960 all Presidential candidates had been male WASPs (White, Anglo-Saxon Protestants) who could trace their American ancestry back to the early settlers. Kennedy’s great-grandparents had all emigrated from Ireland to Boston in the 1840s to escape the potato famine and much was made of his Catholicism by opponents who feared that he would favour Catholic interests and compromise the separation of Church and State by an allegiance to the Vatican. Kennedy’s victory and brief presidency changed the way Americans viewed the office of president, and in 1964 the first Jewish candidate for a major party stood as the Republican nominee against Kennedy’s Vice-President, Lyndon Johnson.

As well as seeing a recasting of social and cultural attitudes, the 1960s also saw a change in public rhetoric with the wide-scale adoption of television altering and expanding the audience for many political speeches – what would once be delivered to a limited audience and disseminated via newspapers more widely was now broadcast straight from the orator’s lips.

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