From Voltaire to Wagner

by Léon Poliakov

Book Overview

Covering the story of prejudice against Jews from the time of Christ through the rise of Nazi Germany, The History of Anti-Semitism presents in elegant and thoughtful language a balanced, careful assessment of this egregious human failing that is nearly ubiquitous in the history of Europe.

From Voltaire to Wagner reviews the period of the European Enlightenment in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when anti-Semitism gradually...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812218655
• ISBN13: 9780812218657
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 582 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"