{"product_id":"from-prejudice-to-destruction-9780674325074","title":"From Prejudice to Destruction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKatz here presents a major reinterpretation of modern anti-Semitism, revising the prevalent thesis that medieval and modern animosities against Jews were fundamentally different.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo this book Mr. Katz has brought scholarly rigor, objectivity, and, last but not least, a sense of the passage of time so frequently missing from discussions of anti-Semitism. For once, the modern Jewish experience is not read backward from catastrophe, but is allowed to find its own way through all the continuities and discontinuities which history has to offer… Enables us to discern the history of anti-Semitism with greater clarity than ever before. * Commentary *\u003cbr\u003eProfoundly disturbing… In a world in which the disease of anti-Semitism appears to be rising, Katz’s work makes compelling reading. * Hadassah Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Prejudice to Destruction\u003c\/i\u003e contains a wealth of specific information that will be of interest to scholars. The general reader will be drawn to its larger themes. Certainly the most important of these is Katz’s contention that modern anti-Semitism is a direct outgrowth of traditional, Christian anti-Semitism. * The New Leader *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction    PART 1: BACKGROUND, 1700-1780      1. The Christian Tradition: Eisenmenger    2. The Rationalist Reorientation   3. Voltaire       PART 2: GERMANY, 1780-1819      4. Ideological Counterattack    5. Philosophy the Heir of Theology    6. Nationalism and Romanticism    7. Incitement and Riot     PART 3: FRANCE, 1780-1880      8. The Revolutionary Promise and the Catholic Reaction   9. The Socialist Indictment   10. The Liberal Ambiguity   11. Jews and Freemasons       PART 4: GERMANY, 1830-1873      12. The German Liberals' Image of the Jew   13. The Radicals: Feuerbach, Bauer, Marx    14. The Scandal of the Jewish Artist: Richard Wagner   15. The Christian State   16. The Jewish Stereotype and Assimilation   17. The Conservatives' Rearguard Action      PART 5: AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, 1780-1880      18. The Austrian Prelude   19. The Hungarian Prelude      PART 6: THE MOVEMENT      20. The Incubation   21. The Crystallization   22. The Hungarian Variation   23. The Austrian Extension   24. French Anti-Semitism    PART 7: CULMINATION    25. Racism and the Nazi Climax   26. Anti-Semitism Through the Ages   Notes    Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49526054420823,"sku":"9780674325074","price":37.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674325074.jpg?v=1731862730","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-prejudice-to-destruction-9780674325074","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}