European Antisemitism in the Modern World an Anthology of Texts: An Anthology of Texts (Major Problems in American History Series) [Paperback]

Richard Levy (Author), Richard S. Levy (Other Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1991 | ISBN-10: 066924340X | ISBN-13: 978-0669243406

In his introduction, Levy distinguishes modern antisemitism from the ancient Western tradition of hatred. Representing this modern version are famous antisemites such as Richard Wagner, Henry Ford, and Adolf Hitler, as well as other frequently overlooked writings, many of them in Levy's own translations. A collection of illustrations, most of them quite rare, offers additional documentation of antisemitic propaganda.

Product Details

• Paperback: 270 pages
• Publisher: D.C. Heath (January 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 066924340X
• ISBN-13: 978-0669243406
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,038,541 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A well-chosen and readable selection, July 10, 2006

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This review is from: European Antisemitism in the Modern World an Anthology of Texts: An Anthology of Texts (Major Problems in American History Series) (Paperback)

Editor Levy provides a good array of texts, starting with the Heidelberger professor Eisenmenger in 1710 and ending with some fellow named Yevgeny Yevseev, who published an "Anti-Zionist" screed in 1971, harmonized with the "anti-fascist" rhetoric current in the then Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. In between are selections from Voltaire, Wagner, Stoecker, von Treitschke, Marr, various committee works, the Protocolls, Henry Ford, a trio of drosches by Hitler(yemakh shmo), the statement of the Wahnsee Conference, as it was called, and a few other bits here and there.

Levy has added introductions to each historical section, along with a good "additional reading" selection. The entirety is prefaced by an attempt at a definition of "Anti-Semitism"; his attempt seems as good as any that doesn't resort to metaphysics. My only suggestion would have been to add a few more American selections; some of the urban rustics associated with Louis Farrakhan are mentioned in ancillary material but I think it would have been useful to add full examples of some of anti-Jewish rubbish that here and now rolls around burning in the American street, stinking and befouling the feckless rhetoricians who refuse to recognize it for what it is.