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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Albert S Lindemann; Mazal Holocaust Collection. |
ISBN: | 0521593697 9780521593694 0521795389 9780521795388 |
OCLC Number: | 36417810 |
Description: | xxi, 568 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Anti-Semitism before the modern period: overview and definition -- Modern times (1700 to the 1870s) -- Germans and Jews (1870-1890) -- Anti-Semitic ideology and movement in Germany (1879 to the 1890s) -- Socialists, Jews, and anti-Semites -- Austria-Hungary: radical radicalism and Schlamperei -- France: liberty, equality, and fraternity -- A sweet exile? -- The failures: Russia and Romania -- The ambiguities of "failure" in the belle epoque: Germany and Austria -- The ambiguous successes: Great Britain and the United States -- World War I -- Jews and revolution (1917-1934) -- Fascism and anti-Semitism. |
Responsibility: | Albert S. Lindemann. |
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Abstract:
Esau's Tears explores the rise of modern racial-political anti-Semitism in Europe and the United States. The evidence presented in this volume suggests that anti-Semitism was more ambiguous than usually presented and by no means clearly pointed to a rising hatred of Jews everywhere.
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'... an original and perceptive observation on virtually every page, a consistent challenge to the orthodox interpretation of modern antisemitism which may be seen as a landmark in its study ... Esau's Tears merits an important place in any historical assessment of modern antisemitism, while the author deserves a medal for bravery in writing the book'. History Read more...
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