Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred

✍ Scribed by Robert S. Wistrich

• Publisher: Schocken
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 400
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Throughout history Jews have been the victims of paranoia, homicidal hatred, and political cynicism. This book takes a sweeping look at the phenomenon of antisemitism from its beginnings to the present, focusing on its recent reemergence in Europe and the Middle East.

✦ Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii
Author's Note x
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction xv
Part 1 FROM THE CROSS TO THE SWASTIKA
1. Pagan Roots of Antisemitism 3
2. Church and Synagogue 13
3. The Medieval Legacy 29
4. Modern Secular Anti-Judaism 43
5. Antisemitism in Central Europe 54
6. Hitler's 'Final Solution' 66
7. After Auschwitz: the German Response 78
8. The Waldheim Syndrome 88
Part 2 ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE
9. Britain: the Limits of Tolerance 101
10. America: Whites, Blacks and Jews 114
11. France: from Dreyfus to Le Pen 126
12. East European Nationalisms 145
13. Poland: Antisemitism without Jews 157
14. The Soviet Disunion 171
Part 3 BETWEEN MOSES AND MOHAMMED
15. Jews in Islamic Lands 195
16. Conspiracies and Holy Wars 222
17. The Question of Palestine 240
18. Arabism,Semitism and Antisemitism 252
Notes 269
Glossary 309
Select Bibliography 3 1
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Index 328