Reviews

Author:

Jeffrey Herf

Reviewer:

Sharon Vance

Vance on Herf, 'Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945-1949'

Jeffrey Herf. Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945-1949. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Illustrations. 450 pp. $39.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-316-51796-3.

Reviewed by Sharon Vance (Northern Kentucky University) Published on H-Antisemitism (April, 2023) Commissioned by Simon Gansinger (University of Warwick)

Author:

Lars Rensmann

Reviewer:

Clemens Holzgruber

Holzgruber on Rensmann, 'The Politics of Unreason: The Frankfurt School and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism'

Lars Rensmann. The Politics of Unreason: The Frankfurt School and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism. Philosophy and Race Series. Albany: SUNY Press, 2017. 600 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-6593-7.

Reviewed by Clemens Holzgruber (Free University of Berlin) Published on H-Antisemitism (April, 2018) Commissioned by Simon Gansinger (University of Vienna)

Author:

David Nirenberg

Reviewer:

Albert S. Lindemann

Lindemann on Nirenberg, 'Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition'

David Nirenberg. Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013. 610 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-393-05824-6.

Reviewed by Albert S. Lindemann Published on H-Antisemitism (October, 2014) Commissioned by Philipp Nielsen

Author:

Sabine Hank, Hermann Simon, Uwe Hank, eds.

Reviewer:

Tim Grady

Grady on Hank and Simon and Hank, 'Feldrabbiner in den Streitkräften ds Ersten Weltkrieges'

Sabine Hank, Hermann Simon, Uwe Hank, eds. Feldrabbiner in den Streitkräften ds Ersten Weltkrieges. Berlin: Hentrich und Hentrich, 2013. 624 pp. EUR 48.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-938485-76-7.

Reviewed by Tim Grady (University of Chester) Published on H-Antisemitism (February, 2014) Commissioned by Philipp Nielsen

German Jews to the Front

Author:

Michael Wildt

Reviewer:

Philipp Lenhard

Lenhard on Wildt, 'Hitler's Volksgemeinschaft and the Dynamics of Racial Exclusion: Violence against Jews in Provincial Germany, 1919-1939'

Michael Wildt. Hitler's Volksgemeinschaft and the Dynamics of Racial Exclusion: Violence against Jews in Provincial Germany, 1919-1939. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. 328 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-85745-322-8.

Reviewed by Philipp Lenhard (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universtität München) Published on H-Antisemitism (December, 2013) Commissioned by Philipp Nielsen

Author:

Laura Jockusch

Reviewer:

Anna Motyczka

Motyczka on Jockusch, 'Collect and Record! Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe'

Laura Jockusch. Collect and Record! Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xv + 320 pp. $74.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-976455-6.

Reviewed by Anna Motyczka (Leo Baeck Institute London) Published on H-Antisemitism (August, 2013) Commissioned by Philipp Nielsen

Documenting Destruction

Author:

Albert S. Lindemann, Richard S. Levy, eds.

Reviewer:

Jonathan Judaken

Judaken on Goldstein, 'A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism' and Lindemann and Levy, 'Antisemitism: A History'

Phyllis Goldstein. A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism. Brookline: Facing History and Ourselves, 2012. Illustrations. 405 pp. $17.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-9819543-8-7.Albert S. Lindemann, Richard S. Levy, eds. Antisemitism: A History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. vi + 288 pp.

Author:

Lisa Silverman

Reviewer:

Howard N. Lupovitch

Lupovitch on Silverman, 'Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars'

Lisa Silverman. Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars. Oxford University Press, 2012. xi + 334 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-979484-3.

Reviewed by Howard N. Lupovitch (Dept. of History, University of Western Ontario) Published on H-Antisemitism (April, 2013) Commissioned by Philipp Nielsen

To Be Different Is to Be Jewish

Author:

András Kovács

Reviewer:

Ferenc Laczó

Laczó on András Kovács, 'The Stranger at Hand: Antisemitic Prejudices in Post-Communist Hungary'

András Kovács. The Stranger at Hand: Antisemitic Prejudices in Post-Communist Hungary. Jewish Identities in a Changing World Series. Leiden: Brill, 2011. 211 pp. $131.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-19194-5.

Reviewed by Ferenc Laczó (University of Jena) Published on H-Antisemitism (March, 2013) Commissioned by Philipp Nielsen

Antisemitism in Contemporary Hungary

Author:

Mary Fulbrook

Reviewer:

Daniel Rosenthal

Rosenthal on Fulbrook, 'A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust'

Mary Fulbrook. A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. XVII, 421 S. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-960330-5.

Reviewed by Daniel Rosenthal (University of Toronto, Department of History) Published on H-Antisemitism (February, 2013) Commissioned by Philipp Nielsen

Author:

Christhard Hoffmann, Werner Bergmann, Helmut Walser Smith, eds.

Reviewer:

Tobias Brinkmann

Brinkmann on Hoffmann and Bergmann and Smith, 'Exclusionary Violence: Antisemitic Riots in Modern Germany'

Christhard Hoffmann, Werner Bergmann, Helmut Walser Smith, eds. Exclusionary Violence: Antisemitic Riots in Modern Germany. Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany Series. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. 210 pp. $28.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-472-06796-1; $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-472-09796-8.

Reviewed by Tobias Brinkmann (Simon Dubnow Institute) Published on H-Antisemitism (July, 2003)

Author:

Leslie Derfler

Reviewer:

Jonathan Judaken

Judaken on Derfler, 'The Dreyfus Affair'

Leslie Derfler. The Dreyfus Affair. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002. vii + 167 pp. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-313-31791-0.

Reviewed by Jonathan Judaken (Department of History, University of Memphis) Published on H-Antisemitism (April, 2003)

Teaching the Dreyfus Affair

Teaching the Dreyfus Affair

Author:

Helmut Walser Smith

Reviewer:

Richard S. Levy

Levy on Smith, 'The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town'

Helmut Walser Smith. The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2002. 270 pp. $25.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-393-05098-1.

Reviewed by Richard S. Levy (University of Illinois at Chicago) Published on H-Antisemitism (December, 2002)

Author:

Patricia Sloane

Reviewer:

Richard E. Sherwin

Sherwin on Sloane, 'T.S. Eliot's Bleistein Poems: Uses of Literary Allusion in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" and "Dirge"'

Patricia Sloane. T.S. Eliot's Bleistein Poems: Uses of Literary Allusion in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" and "Dirge". Foreword by Shyamal Bagchee. New York: International Scholars Publications, 2000. 397 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57309-331-6.

Reviewed by Richard E. Sherwin (Bar Ilan University) Published on H-Antisemitism (February, 2001)

Author:

Pierre Birnbaum

Reviewer:

Jonathan Judaken

Judaken on Birnbaum, 'Jewish Destinies: Citizenship, State and Community in Modern France'

Pierre Birnbaum. Jewish Destinies: Citizenship, State and Community in Modern France. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. New York: Hill & Wang, 2000. vii + 324 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8090-6101-3.

Reviewed by Jonathan Judaken (Department of History, University of Memphis) Published on H-Antisemitism (February, 2001)

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Vance on Herf, 'Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945-1949'

Holzgruber on Rensmann, 'The Politics of Unreason: The Frankfurt School and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism'

Lindemann on Nirenberg, 'Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition'

Grady on Hank and Simon and Hank, 'Feldrabbiner in den Streitkräften ds Ersten Weltkrieges'

Lenhard on Wildt, 'Hitler's Volksgemeinschaft and the Dynamics of Racial Exclusion: Violence against Jews in Provincial Germany, 1919-1939'

Motyczka on Jockusch, 'Collect and Record! Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe'

Judaken on Goldstein, 'A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism' and Lindemann and Levy, 'Antisemitism: A History'

Lupovitch on Silverman, 'Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars'

Laczó on András Kovács, 'The Stranger at Hand: Antisemitic Prejudices in Post-Communist Hungary'

Rosenthal on Fulbrook, 'A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust'

Brinkmann on Hoffmann and Bergmann and Smith, 'Exclusionary Violence: Antisemitic Riots in Modern Germany'

Judaken on Derfler, 'The Dreyfus Affair'

Levy on Smith, 'The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town'

Sherwin on Sloane, 'T.S. Eliot's Bleistein Poems: Uses of Literary Allusion in "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" and "Dirge"'

Judaken on Birnbaum, 'Jewish Destinies: Citizenship, State and Community in Modern France'

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