From Prejudice to Destruction Anti-Semitism, 1700-1933

Name: From Prejudice to Destruction Anti-Semitism, 1700-1933
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ISBN: 9780674325074

ISBN-10: 0674325079

ISBN-13: 9780674325074

Edition: 1980

Authors: Jacob F. Katz

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Jacob Katz here presents a major reinterpretation of modern anti-Semitism, which blends history of ideas about the Jews gradually became transformed and then, around 1879, picked up so much social force as to result in the premeditated and systematic destruction of the Jewish people of Europe. Mr. Katz revises the prevalent thesis that medieval and modern animosities against Jews were fundamentally different. He also rejects the scapegoat theory, according to which the Jews were merely a lightning rod for underlying economic and social tensions. On the contrary, he argues, there were very real tensions between Jews and non-Jews, because the Jews were a highly visible and cohesive group…

Book details

List price: $54.00
Copyright year: 1980
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/1982
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 398
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Introduction



Background, 1700-1780



The Christian Tradition: Eisenmenger



The Rationalist Reorientation



Voltaire



Germany, 1780-1819



Ideological Counterattack



Philosophy the Heir of Theology



Nationalism and Romanticism



Incitement and Riot



France, 1780-1880



The Revolutionary Promise and the Catholic Reaction



The Socialist Indictment



The Liberal Ambiguity



Jews and Freemasons



Germany, 1830-1873



The German Liberals' Image of the Jew



The Radicals: Feuerbach, Bauer, Marx



The Scandal of the Jewish Artist: Richard Wagner



The Christian State



The Jewish Stereotype and Assimilation



The Conservatives' Rearguard Action



Austria-Hungary, 1780-1880



The Austrian Prelude



The Hungarian Prelude



The Movement



The Incubation



The Crystallization



The Hungarian Variation



The Austrian Extension



French Anti-Semitism



Culmination



Racism and the Nazi Climax



Anti-Semitism Through the Ages


Notes


Index