Tears of History: The Rise of Political Antisemitism in the United States

by Pierre Birnbaum

Book Overview

For many Jews, for more than a century, the United States has seemed to be a safe haven. There has been antisemitic prejudice, but nothing on the scale of the discrimination, persecution, pogroms, and genocide witnessed in Europe. White American ethnic violence has assailed many targets, but Jews have rarely been among them. Observing what he took to be an American exception, the influential historian Salo Baron challenged the "lachrymose conception"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231209614
• ISBN13: 9780231209618
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"