Anti-Semitism before the HolocaustAn important new study on a complex and highly controversial topic. Albert Lindemann provides a clear and balanced guide to anti-Semitism from ancient times right through to the twentieth-century inter-war period and the Nazi Holocaust. He looks at all countries where anti-Semitism manifested itself at different times and in different ways xxx; in Russia, the US, Poland, England, Germany, South Africa, and Holland. Throughout he asks difficult and unfamiliar questions to challenge long held and misguided beliefs. An important new study which fills a gap in current literature. |
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Ancient and Medieval Jewhatred | |
The Coming of Modern Times | |
Modern RacialPolitical AntiSemitism | |
War Revolution Fascism 191433 | |
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