{"product_id":"the-history-of-anti-semitism-volume-4-suicidal-europe-1870-1933-paperback-softback-9780812218664","title":"The History of Anti-Semitism, Volume 4; Suicidal Europe, 1870-1933 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812218664","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe History of Anti-Semitism, Volume 4\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSuicidal Europe, 1870-1933\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLeon Poliakov (Author), George Klin (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812218664\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 October 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e440 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Léon Poliakov's work on antisemitism is of enormous importance. As a work of scholarship it is almost without peer. One could have imagined that Poliakov's study might have given a long overdue burial to the longest hatred. Sadly-tragically-it has taken on a new urgency in our time as the images and issues have been resurrected at the beginning of the twenty-first century.\" (Michael Berenbaum, Director, Sigi Ziering Institute) \"Poliakov has demonstrated how widely and deeply versed he is in his subject.\" (\u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e) \"Poliakov has shown that anti-Semitism is no chance phenomenon but an emanation of European culture.\" (\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e) \"A scholarly but eminently readable tracing of the sources and recurring themes of anti-Semitism.\" (\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eCovering the story of prejudice against Jews from the time of Christ through the rise of Nazi Germany, \u003ci\u003eThe History of Anti-Semitism\u003c\/i\u003e presents in elegant and thoughtful language a balanced, careful assessment of this egregious human failing that is nearly ubiquitous in the history of Europe.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSuicidal Europe, 1870-1933\u003c\/i\u003e traces the development of a belief among Europe's educated classes in an eventual Jewish domination of the West. Revealing the embedded myths about Jewish bankers and Jewish Bolsheviks in European rhetoric and histories, Poliakov demonstrates that the steady rise in anti-Semitism and suspicion of Jews in the late nineteenth century-highlighted by the Dreyfus affair-and its eventual eruption in the rise of the Nazi party in Germany in the 1920s are part of the same thread of fear and hatred that reaches back to the beginning of the first millennium.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52743756874008,"sku":"9780812218664","price":28.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-history-of-anti-semitism-volume-4-suicidal-europe-1870-1933-paperback-softback-9780812218664","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}