GUEST POST: The blueprint for anti-Semitism
A long read on the single most influential anti-Semitic text shaping animosity to Jews in Tsarist Russia, Nazi Germany, the Arab world and beyond
Reviews
44 postsReviews of books, exhibitions, films, television programmes and any other medium on the subject of anti-Semitism.
Mendelssohn is on the Roof
A review of a little-known but darkly satirical novel on Prague under Nazi occupation written by a Jewish survivor of the ordeal
GUEST POST: Arendt’s judgements on Israel
The great German-Jewish political thinker was fiercely critical of mainstream Zionism but unequivocally supported Israel’s right to defend itself
Jews cast as the devil
A look at the historical origins of the enduring idea that Jews represent a diabolical force
France’s anti-Semitism conundrum
A new biography of Alfred Dreyfus helps explain how anti-Semitism emerged in French society despite the country’s professed attachment to equality and rights