Esau's Tears Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews

Name: Esau's Tears Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews
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ISBN: 9780521795388

ISBN-10: 0521795389

ISBN-13: 9780521795388

Edition: 2000

Authors: Albert S. Lindemann

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Esau's Tears explores the remarkable and revealing variety of modern anti-Semitism, from its emergence in the 1870s in a racial-political form to the eve of the Nazi takeover, in the major countries of Europe and in the United States. Previous histories have generally been more concerned with description than analysis, and most of the interpretations in those histories have been lacking in balance. The evidence presented in this volume suggests that anti-Semitism in these years was more ambiguous than usually presented, less pervasive and central to the lives of both Jews and non-Jews, and by no means clearly pointed to a rising hatred of Jews everywhere, even less to the likelihood of mass…

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List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/4/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 600
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English



Preface



The Long-Range Background



Anti-Semitism before the modern period: overview and definition



Modern times (1700 to the 1870s)



The Appearance of Modern Anti-Semitism (1870-1890)



Germans and Jews (1870-1980)



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 Belle Epoque (1890-1914)






The ambiguities of 'failure' in the Belle Epoque: Germany and Austria



The ambiguous successes: Great Britain and the United States



A Decade of War and Revolution (1914-1924)



World War I



Jews and revolution (1917-1934)



The Fascist Era: Europe Between the Wars



Fascism and Anti-Semitism


Epilogue


Conclusions