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Anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism

Last updated: February 12, 2025

    The best books on Anti-Semitism, recommended by Abraham Foxman

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    The best books on Anti-Semitism - Constantine by James Carroll

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    Constantine
    by James Carroll

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    The best books on Anti-Semitism - The War Against the Jews by Lucy S Dawidowicz

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    The War Against the Jews
    by Lucy S Dawidowicz

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    The best books on Anti-Semitism - The Siege by Conor Cruise O’Brien

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    The Siege
    by Conor Cruise O’Brien

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    The best books on Anti-Semitism - Trials of the Diaspora by Anthony Julius

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    Trials of the Diaspora
    by Anthony Julius

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    The best books on Anti-Semitism - A Lethal Obsession by Robert S Wistrich

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    A Lethal Obsession
    by Robert S Wistrich

  • Why has anti-Semitism been such a problem down the ages, and why does it persist today? The emeritus director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, recommends the best books to better understand anti-Semitism.

  • The best books on Anti-Semitism - Constantine by James Carroll
  • The best books on Anti-Semitism - The War Against the Jews by Lucy S Dawidowicz
  • The best books on Anti-Semitism - The Siege by Conor Cruise O’Brien
  • The best books on Anti-Semitism - Trials of the Diaspora by Anthony Julius
  • The best books on Anti-Semitism - A Lethal Obsession by Robert S Wistrich

The best books on Anti-Semitism, recommended by Abraham Foxman

Why has anti-Semitism been such a problem down the ages, and why does it persist today? The emeritus director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, recommends the best books to better understand anti-Semitism.

The best books on Anti-Semitism, recommended by Abraham Foxman

    The best books on The Dreyfus Affair and the Belle Epoque, recommended by Ruth Harris

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    The best books on The Dreyfus Affair and the Belle Epoque - The Dreyfus Affair: J’accuse and other writings by Emile Zola

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    The Dreyfus Affair: J’accuse and other writings
    by Emile Zola

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    The best books on The Dreyfus Affair and the Belle Epoque - Cyrano de Bergerac by Anthony Burgess (translator) & Edmund Rostand

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    Cyrano de Bergerac
    by Anthony Burgess (translator) & Edmund Rostand

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    The best books on The Dreyfus Affair and the Belle Epoque - Stone’s Fall by Iain Pears

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    Stone’s Fall
    by Iain Pears

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    The best books on The Dreyfus Affair and the Belle Epoque - The Unknown Matisse by Hilary Spurling

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    The Unknown Matisse
    by Hilary Spurling

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    The best books on The Dreyfus Affair and the Belle Epoque - The Guns of August by Barbara W Tuchman

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    The Guns of August
    by Barbara W Tuchman

  • The Belle Epoque combined a preoccupation with the noblesse of the old regime with the seeds for modernism, says Oxford history professor Ruth Harris, author of an award-winning book on the Dreyfus affair. She picks the best books on a golden period in France before the outbreak of World War I.

  • The best books on The Dreyfus Affair and the Belle Epoque - The Dreyfus Affair: J’accuse and other writings by Emile Zola
  • The best books on The Dreyfus Affair and the Belle Epoque - Cyrano de Bergerac by Anthony Burgess (translator) & Edmund Rostand
  • The best books on The Dreyfus Affair and the Belle Epoque - Stone’s Fall by Iain Pears
  • The best books on The Dreyfus Affair and the Belle Epoque - The Unknown Matisse by Hilary Spurling
  • The best books on The Dreyfus Affair and the Belle Epoque - The Guns of August by Barbara W Tuchman

The best books on The Dreyfus Affair and the Belle Epoque, recommended by Ruth Harris

The Belle Epoque combined a preoccupation with the noblesse of the old regime with the seeds for modernism, says Oxford history professor Ruth Harris, author of an award-winning book on the Dreyfus affair. She picks the best books on a golden period in France before the outbreak of World War I.

The best books on The Dreyfus Affair and the Belle Epoque, recommended by Ruth Harris

    The best books on Zionism and Anti-Zionism, recommended by Gabriel Piterberg

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    The best books on Zionism and Anti-Zionism - Theodor Herzl by Jacques Kornberg

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    Theodor Herzl
    by Jacques Kornberg

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    The best books on Zionism and Anti-Zionism - Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914 by Gershon Shafir

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    Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914
    by Gershon Shafir

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    The best books on Zionism and Anti-Zionism - The Question of Palestine by Edward Said

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    The Question of Palestine
    by Edward Said

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    The best books on Zionism and Anti-Zionism - Facts on the Ground by Nadia Abu El-Haj

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    Facts on the Ground
    by Nadia Abu El-Haj

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    The best books on Zionism and Anti-Zionism - Exil et Souveraineté by Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin

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    Exil et Souveraineté
    by Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin

  • Israeli historian Gabriel Piterberg tells us about works of scholarship that have challenged the Zionist Israeli narrative of modern history.

  • The best books on Zionism and Anti-Zionism - Theodor Herzl by Jacques Kornberg
  • The best books on Zionism and Anti-Zionism - Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914 by Gershon Shafir
  • The best books on Zionism and Anti-Zionism - The Question of Palestine by Edward Said
  • The best books on Zionism and Anti-Zionism - Facts on the Ground by Nadia Abu El-Haj
  • The best books on Zionism and Anti-Zionism - Exil et Souveraineté by Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin

The best books on Zionism and Anti-Zionism, recommended by Gabriel Piterberg

Israeli historian Gabriel Piterberg tells us about works of scholarship that have challenged the Zionist Israeli narrative of modern history.

The best books on Zionism and Anti-Zionism, recommended by Gabriel Piterberg

    The best books on Hitler, recommended by Michael Burleigh

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    The best books on Hitler - The Fuehrer by Konrad Heiden

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    The Fuehrer
    by Konrad Heiden

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    The best books on Hitler - Hitler’s Vienna by Brigitte Hamann

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    Hitler’s Vienna
    by Brigitte Hamann

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    The best books on Hitler - Hitler: The Fuhrer and the People by J P Stern

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    Hitler: The Fuhrer and the People
    by J P Stern

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    The best books on Hitler - The Hitler Myth by Ian Kershaw

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    The Hitler Myth
    by Ian Kershaw

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    The best books on Hitler - Hitler by Joachim Fest

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    Hitler
    by Joachim Fest

  • Hitler has a reputation as the incarnation of evil. But, as British historian Michael Burleigh points out in selecting the best books on the German dictator, Hitler was a bizarre and strangely empty character who never did a proper day's work in his life, as well as a raving fantasist on to whom Germans were able to project their longings.

  • The best books on Hitler - The Fuehrer by Konrad Heiden
  • The best books on Hitler - Hitler’s Vienna by Brigitte Hamann
  • The best books on Hitler - Hitler: The Fuhrer and the People by J P Stern
  • The best books on Hitler - The Hitler Myth by Ian Kershaw
  • The best books on Hitler - Hitler by Joachim Fest

The best books on Hitler, recommended by Michael Burleigh

Hitler has a reputation as the incarnation of evil. But, as British historian Michael Burleigh points out in selecting the best books on the German dictator, Hitler was a bizarre and strangely empty character who never did a proper day’s work in his life, as well as a raving fantasist on to whom Germans were able to project their longings.

The best books on Hitler, recommended by Michael Burleigh

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