Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer. Anti-Semitism. Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002. x, 309 pp.

What seemed just barely possible when Léon Poliakov undertook to write a complete history of anti-Semitism in the mid-1970s would strike most serious historians as the height of folly today. The torrent of specialized studies of the subject in the past quarter-century, covering every period, culture...

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Main Author: Levy, Richard S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press 2005
In: AJS review
Year: 2005, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 185-186
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Summary:What seemed just barely possible when Léon Poliakov undertook to write a complete history of anti-Semitism in the mid-1970s would strike most serious historians as the height of folly today. The torrent of specialized studies of the subject in the past quarter-century, covering every period, culture, and continent, may have rendered such a project all but impossible. Even before Poliakov completed his fourth volume, Jacob Katz had wisely decided to confine his classic, From Prejudice to Destruction (1980), to Europe, 1700-1933. Yet there is a need for general treatments of the topic, if only to keep it from disappearing into the forest of ever-narrowing monographs and to help non-specialists make sense of a problem that shows no sign of going away.
ISSN:1475-4541
Contains:Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0364009405340098