From Prejudice to Destruction: Anti-Semitism, 1700-1933,

by Jacob Katz

Book Overview

Jacob Katz here presents a major reinterpretation of modern anti-Semitism, which blends history of ideas about the Jews gradually became transformed and then, around 1879, picked up so much social force as to result in the premeditated and systematic destruction of the Jewish people of Europe. Mr. Katz revises the prevalent thesis that medieval and modern animosities against Jews were fundamentally different. He also rejects the scapegoat theory,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674325052
• ISBN13: 9780674325050
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Introduction to the History of Anti-Semitic Thought

This book was a textbook for a class I took on the Holocaust. I have since read other works by Jacob Katz and I find his work to be well-written, even for people who are not academics, and thorough in its approach. This book in particular offers an excellent survey of the development of anti-Judaic and anti-Semitic thought throughout European history. If you are interested in understanding the sources of anti-Semitic thought and race theory as phenomena that culminated in the Holocaust and other modern manifestations of the genocidal impulse, this book is a must. The things Katz highlights and discusses will blow your mind. By the time I finished the book, I understood so much more about how things like the Holocaust could happen in the first place.