HEBR7707 THE HISTORY OF ANTISEMITISM
John D. Klier
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I. Bibliographies and Source Books
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II. General Histories and Themes
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__________, ed. Religious Violence between Christians and Jews: Medieval Roots,
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V. The Modern Period
A. General
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B. Austria-Hungary
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Germany and Austria-Hungary. London, 1982.
C. England
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Holmes, Colin. Antisemitism in British Society, 1876-1939. London, 1979.
_________. John Bull's Island. Immigration and British Society, 1871-1971.
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D. France
Bredin, Jean-Denis. The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus. New York, 1986.
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Hanover and London, 1985.
Wilson, Stephen. Ideology and Experience. Antisemitism in France at the Time of
the Dreyfus Affair. London, 1982.
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E. Germany*
Aschheim, Steven E. Brothers and Strangers. The East European Jew in German and
German Jewish Consciousness, 1800-1923. Madison, WS, 1982.
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__________, "Small Forays, Grand Theories and Deep Origins: Current Trends in
the Historiography of the Holocaust," Studies in Contemporary Jewry, X (1994):139-
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Holocaust. London, 1997.
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Kershaw, Ian. Hitler. London, 1998.
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F. Italy
Kertzer, David I.. The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. London, 1997.
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Question in Italy, 1922-1945. Oxford, 1978.
G. Poland
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Two World Wars. Hanover and London, 1989.
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68, 2 (1996):351-81.
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World Wars. New York, 1977.
Levine, Hillel. Economic Origins of Antisemitism. Poland and Its Jews in the Early
Modern Period. New Haven and London, 1991.
Madras, Ronald E. The Catholic Church and Antisemitism in Poland, 1933-1939.
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__________. The Jews of East Central Europe between the World Wars.
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Narcus, Joseph. Social and Political History of the Jews in Poland, 1919-1939.
Berlin, New York and Amsterdam, 1983.
Gross, Jan. Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jebwabne,
Poland. Princeton, NJ, 2001.
H. Russia and the Soviet Union
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Dubnow, S. M. The History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. 3 vols. Philadelphia,
1916-20.
Klier, John D. Imperial Russia's Jewish Question, 1855-1881. Cambridge, 1995.
_________ and Lambroza, Shlomo, eds. Pogroms: Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern
Jewish History. Cambridge, 1991.
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Russia, 1772-1825. DeKalb, 1985.
Korey, William. The Soviet Cage: Antisemitism in Russia. New York, 1975.
Kostyrchenko, Gennadii. Out of the Red Shadows:
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I. Other Countries
Braham, Randolph, ed. The Tragedy of Romanian Jewry. New York, 1994.
Oldson, William O. A Providential Antisemitism: Nationalism and Polity in 19th
Century Romania. Philadelphia, 1991.
Vago, Bela. The Shadow of the Swastika. The Rise of Fascism and Antisemitism in
the Danube Basin, 1936-1939. Farnborough, 1975.
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Intelligentsia in the 1930s. Oxford, 1991.
VI. Jewish Responses to Modern Antisemitism
Frankel, Jonathan. The Damascus Affair: "Ritual Murder," Politics, and the Jews in
1840. Cambridge, 1997.
Hertzberg, Arthur, ed. The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader. New
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VII. Islam and the Jews
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*The literature devoted to the Holocaust is enormous, but, ironically, much of it deals
with the planning and mechanics of extermination, rather than the antisemitic
background. A few prominent exceptions are the works of Goldhagen, Gordon,
Graml and Kershaw, cited here.
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