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Book SynopsisFirst study to explore the transformation in attitudes on the Left toward the Jews, Zionism, and Israel.
Trade Review"This is a magisterial work, providing a comprehensive understanding of the origins of the most pernicious challenges currently facing the Jewish people, especially those originating from the enemy within."—Isi Leibler,
Jerusalem Post "With this politically urgent and morally compelling study, Wistrich offers a thoroughly researched and demystifying exploration of leftist biases, stereotypes and delusions regarding Jews, Judaism and the state of Israel."—Vladimir Tismaneanu,
International Affairs"Professor Wistrich has now written some 30 scholarly books on Jewish history and philosophy, but his work has been dominated by the subject of anti-Semitism. This book is his finest and most comprehensive on the subject."—Stephen Daisley,
StandpointTable of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Jews, Zion, and Revolution THE ANTISEMITIC QUESTION 1. The Racist Temptation in the Labor Movement 2. Karl Marx, Moses Hess, and Jewish Emancipation 3. German Social Democrats on the
Völkisch Movement 4. The "Jewish Question" from Engels to Bernstein 5. Anti-Capitalism or Antisemitism? The Enigma of Franz Mehring 6. Socialists and Antisemites in Europe before 1914 NATIONALISM AND INTERNATIONALISM 7. Bernard Lazare: Anarchist, Dreyfusard, and Revolutionary Jew 8. Social Democracy and Judeophobia in Imperial Vienna 9. The Austro-Marxist Critique of Jewish Nationalism 10. Karl Kautsky and the Controversy over Zion 11. The Internationalism of Rosa Luxemburg 12. Leon Trotsky—A Bolshevik Tragedy ANTI-ZIONIST MYTHOLOGIES 13. From Lenin to the Soviet Black Hundreds 14. The Holocaust Inversion of the Left 15. Bruno Kreisky, Israel, and the Palestinian Question 16. Anti-Zionist Myths on the Contemporary Left 17. Great Britain: A Suitable Case for Treatment? 18. The Marxist-Islamist Alliance Archival Sources and Selected Bibliography Index
