The changing face of antisemitism : from ancient times to the present day
For thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London--the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism--Walter Laqueur here offers both a comprehensive history of anti-Semitism as well as an illuminating look at the newest wave of this phenomenon. Laqueur begins with an invaluable historical account of this pernicious problem, tracing the evolution from a predominantly religious anti-Semitism--stretching back to the middle ages--to a racial anti-Semitism that developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The author then uses this historical account as backdrop to a brillian
History
1 online resource (x, 228 pages)
9780199774739, 9781283098083, 9786613098085, 9780199840571, 0199774730, 1283098083, 6613098086, 0199840571
713022960
The new antisemitism
Interpretations of antisemitism
Ancient and medieval anti-Judaism
The Enlightenment and after
Racialism and Jewish conspiracies
Toward the Holocaust
Contemporary antisemitism
Assimilation and its discontents
Antisemitism and the Left
Antisemitism and the Muslim world
In place of a conclusion
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English