Robert S. Wistrich

A unique reference guide to the leading personalities of the Third Reich. Incisive biographies -- each some three hundred words long and listed in alphabetical order -- give basic information about the careers of three hundred fifty individuals who were prominent or significant in the Third Reich. These compact, easily accessible entries focus on the leading personalities in every sphere of German life before and during World War II. - Jacket flap.

A brief history of Austria's attitides towards Jews during and after the Holocaust.

Examines anti-Semitism as a force challenging Jewish identity while highlighting anti-Semitism as a cause of the Holocaust.

From Ambivalence to Betrayal is the first study to explore the transformation in attitudes on the Left toward the Jews, Zionism, and Israel since the origins of European socialism in the 1840s until the present. This pathbreaking synthesis reveals a striking continuity in negative stereotypes of Jews, contempt for Judaism, and negation of Jewish national self-determination from the days of Karl Marx to the current left-wing intellectual assault on Israel. World-renowned expert on the history of antisemitism Robert S. Wistrich provides not only a powerful analysis of how and why the Left emerged as a spearhead of anti-Israel sentiment but also new insights into the wider involvement of Jews in radical movements. There are fascinating portraits of Marx, Moses Hess, Bernard Lazare, Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, and other Jewish intellectuals, alongside analyses of the darker face of socialist and Communist antisemitism. The closing section eloquently exposes the degeneration of leftist anti-Zionist critiques into a novel form of "anti-racist" racism.

This study discusses changes in antipathies towards Jews and towards Israel in Western Europe, identifying the radiacal Right and Arabs as significant minority segments of the populations actively voicing these attitudes.

Recognized on publication as the definitive account of its subject, [The Origins of Totalitarianism](/works/OL10460640W) remains the foundation for continuing discussion. In this first volume of her monumental study Dr. Arendt traces the rise of antisemitism in Central and Western European Jewish history in the nineteenth century, delineating the part Jews played in the development of the nation-state on one hand and in Gentile society on the other. With the appearance of the first antisemitic parties in the 1870's and Dr. Arendt States, the way was opened that ended in the "final solution." And she views the Dreyfus affair as "a kind of dress rehearsal for the performance of our time"— the first characteristically modern use of antisemitism as an instrument of public policy and of hysteria as a political weapon.