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ROBERT WISTRICH S. i^rffli-,' S*& .?Wj ^J*******- \ THE LONGEST HATRED FPT Throughout history, Jews have been turned into demons in the public mind bya miasma of paranoia, millennial fantasy, and sheer political cynicism. Barely fifty years after the Holocaust, antisemitism is back in the news. Just whatexactly isthisterrible disease ofthe mind? Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred takes a sweeping look at the phenome- non of antisemitism from its beginnings to the present, tracing this virulent virus from its pagan roots to the Christian charge of deicide and beyond tothe mas- sacres of the Crusades and the Inquisi- tion,which heralded laterblood libelsand fantasiesofJewishconspiraciesforworld domination. Is there really anything new in the endless accusations that have echoed acrossthe centuriesfrom Haman to Hitler? Is there any meaning to be ex- tracted from the myths, the stereotypes, and the obsessions that have character- ized the antisemitic discourse for more than two millennia? Robert S. Wistrich sets out to find the answers in a lucid and timely survey in- formed by a profound knowledge of his- tory. "Can it happen here?" This question is nowbeingaskedwithtrepidationwher- everthepoisonofantisemitism hasmade a comeback after having survived intact the near extinction of European Jewry. Charting the course of antisemitism through history, Wistrich focuses on the dramatic reemergence ofantisemitism in (continued on back flap) Digitized by the Internet Archive 2012 in http://www.archive.org/details/antisemitismlongOOwist Antisemitism by thesame author Hitler's Apocalypse The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph Socialism and the Jews Trotsky: Fate of a Revolutionary Who's Who in Nazi Germany Between Redemption and Perdition Revolutionary Jews from Trotsky Antisemitism The Longest Hatred Robert Wistrich S. Pantheon Books New York Pour Dany L'amour vaincra muni Copyright © 1991 byRobertS. Wistrich, RexBloomstein andThamesTelevisionpic. AllrightsreservedunderInternationalandPan-American Copyright Conventions. PublishedintheUnited StatesbyPantheonBooks, a divisionofRandomHouse, Inc., NewYork. OriginallypublishedinGreatBritain byMethuenLondonin 1991. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Bat Ye'orforpermission to reprint materialfromherpublishedlecture, OrientalJewryandtheDhimmiImage in Contemporary Arab Nationalism (Geneva, 1979, p. 3), given at Jews College, London on September 5, 1978 (Chairman: Sir Harold Wilson). Reference is also made to her works The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians underIslam, New Jersey, London and Toronto, 1985 as well as her most recent publication Les Chretientes d'Orient entre Jihad et Dhimmitude: Vlle-XXesiecle, Paris, 1991. LibraryofCongress Cataloging-in-PublicationData Wistrich, RobertS., 1945- Antisemitism : thelongesthatred/Robert S. Wistrich. p. cm. Includesbibliographical referencesandindex. ISBN0-679-40946-7 1. Antisemitism. I. Title. DS145.W55 1992 909'.04924—dc20 91-53083 Manufactured inthe United StatesofAmerica FirstAmericanEdition 8 Contents List ofIllustrations vii Author's Note x Acknowledgements xi Introduction xv Part 1 FROM THE CROSS TO THE SWASTIKA 1. Pagan Roots of Antisemitism 3 2. Church and Synagogue 13 3. The Medieval Legacy 29 4. ModernSecularAnti-Judaism 43 5. Antisemitismin CentralEurope 54 6. Hitler's 'Final Solution' 66 7. AfterAuschwitz: theGermanResponse 78 8. The Waldheim Syndrome 88 Part 2 ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE 9. Britain: theLimitsofTolerance 101 10. America: Whites, BlacksandJews 114 11. France: fromDreyfustoLePen 126 12. East European Nationalisms 145 13. Poland: AntisemitismwithoutJews 157 14. The Soviet Disunion 171 BETWEEN MOSES AND MOHAMMED Part 3 15. Jews in Islamic Lands 195 16. Conspiracies and Holy Wars 222 17. The Question of Palestine 240 18. Arabism,SemitismandAntisemitism 252 Notes 269 Glossary 309 Select Bibliography 31 Index 328
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