INDEX

Abraham (Ibrahim), 14, 74

Abwehr Blaetter (periodical), 161

Abwehrverein (Association for the Defense Against Antisemitism), 161

Action Française, 87

Acts, book of, 46

Adorno, Theodor, 31

Afghanistan, 188

Africa, 126, 127, 130

African Americans, 145–47, 150, 202

Agimet, 60

Agobard of Lyons, 51

agriculture, 154–55

Ahasuerus, 39

ahl al-kitab (People of the Book), 68, 192

AIDS, 62

Akkadian language, 21

alcohol, 80

Alexander II, 54, 82, 83

Alexandria, 41, 44

Algeria, 195, 196

Alliance Israelite Universelle, 97, 160

Almohads, 68

al-Qaeda, 130, 200

Amalekites, 59

Ambrosius, 50

American Jewish Committee, 161

anarchists, 186

Anglo Jewish Association, 160

Annales d’histoire revisioniste, 136

anomie of society, 35

anti-Americanism, 14, 17, 129, 187–88

Antichrist, 47, 55

Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, 161

Anti-Fascist Committee, 174–75

antiglobalism, 186

Antisemitism (Samuel), 34

antisemitism (term), 21–22, 93

Antisemitism: Its History and Causes (Lazare), 27, 28

anti-Zionism

and anti-Americanism, 17

and antisemitism, 7, 9, 18, 20, 207–8

controversy, 5–6

generalized to all Jews, 195–96

Antonescu, Ion, 134

Apion, 41

Apolonius, Molon, 41–42

appearance of Jews, 43, 54, 80–81, 158–59, 168, 193

appeasement policies, 12, 16

Arabs and Arab societies

anti-Zionism, 195–96, 198

Arab-Israeli conflict, 178

conspiracy theories, 20, 197, 200–201, 206

and critics of Jews, 148

expulsions of Jews, 68

in France, 13

fundamentalism, 182

and Holocaust, 139–42, 184

and Israel, 196–97, 202, 206

and Nazism, 187

political influence, 185

propaganda, 198, 203

and references to Jews, 6, 148

relationships with Jews, 18, 147

and Russia, 16

slave trade, 146

sources of antisemitism, 5, 196–97

and Soviet Union, 197

Arafat, Yasser, 205

Arendt, Hannah, 32–33

Argentina, 201

Armenians, 124, 177

Arrow Cross of Hungary, 107, 112, 121

Aryanism, 92, 93

Ashkenazi Jews, 72

Asia, 126, 134, 203

Assembly from Alsace Lorraine, 72–73

assimilation

in ancient Rome, 44

and character traits of Jews, 158

Clermont-Tonnerre on, 72–73

continuation of, 210

difficulty of, 2, 91, 165–66

in France, 151

German philosophers on, 74

in Germany, 151

Holbach on, 72

in Hungary, 110

of non-Jew minorities, 126

in Poland, 80–81, 109

and Zionism, 169

Association for a Taxation of Financial Transaction and for Assistance to Citizens (ATTAC), 186

athletes, Jews as, 162–63

Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp

death toll, 138

and denials of Holocaust, 130, 141, 184

gas chambers, 119, 121

location, 136

public reaction, 135

Austria

attitudes toward Jews, 150, 160

and defenses against antisemitism, 163

demographics, 78

emigration, 116–17

and Holocaust, 122

and Jewish identity, 166

Jewish population, 36

“Autoemancipation” (Pinsker), 26–27

Azouri, Najib, 195

Baader-Meinhof terrorist gang, 130, 182–83

Babi Yar mass execution, 120

Baghdad, Iraq, 193, 196

Bahai in Iran, 8

Balfour Declaration, 195

Ballin, Albert, 93–94

Baltic countries, 134

Banu Qurayza tribe, 67

barbarism, 34

Barbie, Klaus, 130

Beilis trial (1911), 89

Belgium

attacks on Jews, 57

attitudes toward Jews, 129, 150, 160

expulsions of Jews, 54

and Holocaust, 120, 122

political parties, 11

Belzec extermination camp, 119

Benoist, Alain de, 129

Benz, Wolfgang, 122

Berg, Kid, 163

Berg, Nicholas, 201

Berlin, Germany, 36–37

Berlin Olympic Games, 116

Berlusconi, Silvio, 127

Berman, Jakub, 176

Bernard of Clairvaux, 53

Besarabets (newspaper), 85

Bialik, Haim Nahman, 85

Bialystok ghetto, 120

Biarritz (Retcliffe), 96

Bin Laden, Osama, 130, 184, 200

Biro Bidzhan (Soviet district), 30

Black Death, 38, 54, 60–62, 67

Black Hundreds, 84, 87–89

blacks, 145–47, 150, 202

blogging, 130

blood libel, 55–57

accusations, 66, 80, 153

Beilis trial, 89

Damascus trial, 56, 194

Hugh of Lincoln, 56

Luther on, 64

Muslim version, 140

in Romania, 112

St. William of Norwich, 55–56

Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, 88

Boer War, 103

Bohemia, 65

Bolshevism

and Nazism, 113

participation of Jews in, 83, 104, 105, 132

and spread of antisemitism, 30

and Zionism, 180

Bomberg, Daniel, 59

bourgeois society, 31

boycotts of Jewish shops, 109, 115

Brafman, Iakov, 82

Britain

antisemitic activity, 128

attitudes toward Jews, 65, 149, 150, 160

and defenses against antisemitism, 163

demographics, 11

expulsions of Jews, 36

ghettos, 71

immigration, 95

imperialism, 33, 177

Jewish population, 66, 125

legislation, antisemitic, 110

and Livingstone, 13

Muslim population, 126, 148

political parties, 186

British Mandate in Palestine, 30

Browe, Peter, 31

Buchenwald camp, 135–36

Bulgaria, 120

Bunche, Ralph, 145–46

Bush, George W., 187–88

Butz, Arthur R., 136

Cairo, Egypt, 195

Caligula, 41

Calvinism, 64

Capistrano, 54–55, 56–57

capitalism

and Communism, 179

Friedrich on, 34

Jews associated with, 114, 143, 148, 172

Marxists on, 31

and socialism, 28, 79, 172

Sombart’s study of, 25–26

caricatures of Jews, 159

Carlist party, 113

Carlos the Jackal, 9, 130, 182, 184

Carol II, King of Romania, 111

Catherine II, 79

Catholic Church

attacks on Jews, 80

and Dreyfus case, 102

and emancipation of Jews, 78

and establishment of ghettos, 62–63

and Italian antisemitism, 127

popes, 53, 54, 56–57, 61

Central Europe. See also specific countries

and defenses against antisemitism, 163

and Holocaust, 118, 119

Jewish population, 107

regional variations in antisemitism, 69

status of Jews, 71

Centralverein, 161

Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, 93, 94

character traits of Jews, 158–59, 167

Chechens and Chechnya, 7, 133, 134, 204

Chelmno extermination camp, 119

China, 204

Chmielnicki, Bohdan, 66

Chmielnicki massacre, 69

Chomsky, Noam, viii, 183

Christianity. See also Catholic Church

and Black Death, 61–62

blood libel cases, 55–57, 153, 195

charity for Jews, 75–76

and conversion of Jews, 54, 108

Crusades, 38, 51, 52–53

desecration of Host, 57

Fourth Lateran Council, 54, 57

Inquisition, 62–63, 70

and Islam, 19, 52, 67–68, 192

and Judaism, 3, 45–52, 53–55, 62–64, 66, 142

Judaism’s rejection of, 1, 36, 151

and Judaizers, 48

militancy, 206

and Nazism, 144

persecution, 45, 52

political influence, 10

in Russia, 132

theologians, 31

threat of Jews to, 80, 143

in United States, 142

Cicero, 42

Cioran, Emil, 112

circumcision rite, 41, 43, 44

citizenship rights, 41

Civilta Cattolica, 57

class enemies, Jews as, 179

Claudius, 41

Clement VI, 54, 61

Clermont-Tonnerre, Stanislas, comte de, 72–73

Clinton, Bill, 187, 201

Cold War, 179, 181, 187

Cologne, Germany, 52

Communism

avoidance of antisemitism, 173

breakdown, 133

equality emphasis, 206

and fall of Soviet Union, 180

and Holocaust, 124

and “Jewish question,” 30

motives behind antisemitism, 177

participation of Jews, 14, 114, 132, 133, 174, 176

and Polish population, 134

propaganda, 105, 175

and references to Zionism and Judaism, 180

repression of Jews, 179

and revolutions, 30, 99

in Russia, 150

and working class, 184

and Zionism, 180

competition, Jews as, 77, 80, 95, 143, 154

concentration camps, 115, 117, 119, 121

Congress of Vienna, 76

conscription, 81, 82, 86

conspiracy theories

in Arab world, 20, 197, 200–201, 206

and Biarritz, 96

conspiracy theories

and Communism, 177–78

and Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 29, 82, 96–102

on revolutionary ambitions, 30, 156

in United States, 144

Constantine, 49, 50

conversion of Jews

church on, 54, 108

and German Jewry, 164–65

German philosophers on, 74

and Inquisition, 70

and issues of equality, 91

and military conscription, 81

motivations, 165

Pobedonostsev on, 84

and prevalence of antisemitism, 151

conversion to Judaism, 54

Copts in Egypt, 8

Coughlin, Charles Edward, 144

countryside, flight from, 154–55

court Jews (Hofjuden), 65

Croatia, 120

Cromwell, Oliver, 64

Crusades, 38, 51, 52–53

Czechoslovakia, 118, 122, 138

Dachau camp, 136

Dalets (Untouchables) in India, 8, 157

Damascus trial of 1840, 56, 194

David (biblical), 97

Dayan, Moshe, 184

death camps, 119, 121, 135, 136, 141

defenses against antisemitism, 160, 163–64, 168

democracy, 24, 199

democrats, 34, 181

demographics, 78

demonopathy, 26

Denikin, Anton, 104

Denmark, 113, 120

department stores, 95

depictions of Jews, 159

deportations. See expulsions of Jews

Deutscher, Isaac, 180

Devil, 55, 199

diaspora, 39

Diodorus, Siculus, 41

disease in Jewish population, 40

Disraeli, Benjamin, 14, 156

Dmowski, Roman, 109

“doctor’s plot” in Soviet Union, 62

Donin, Nikolas, 58

Dresden bombing, 138

Dreyfus case, 27, 29, 73, 101–2, 195

Drumont, Edouard, 102

Dubrovin, Alexander, 87

Duehring, Eugen, 22, 93

Durkheim, Emile, 35

East Germany, 175, 178–79

Eastern Europe. See also specific countries

antisemitic activity, 131–32, 134

attitudes toward Jews, 167

Freemasons, 73

Holocaust, 118, 119, 123, 139

Jewish population, 16–17, 107, 128, 133, 138

minorities, 110

pogroms, 78

propaganda, 175

regional variations in antisemitism, 66, 69

slave trade, 158

socioeconomics, 79

Stalinism, 174

status of Jews, 167

transition to modern antisemitism, 5

Eastern Orthodox Church, 80, 132, 178, 195

economic sources of antisemitism, 36, 38

competitors, Jews as, 77, 95, 143, 154

in Germany, 114

in Hungary, 110

in Poland, 108

prosperity of Jews, 62, 143–44, 157

education

in Germany, 115, 116

lack of secular education, 72, 80

literacy of Jews, 155

restrictions on Jews, 82, 109

in Romania, 111

Edward, Prince of Wales, 103

Efraim the Syrian, 48

Egypt, ancient

attitude toward Jews, 43

destruction of Elephantine temple, 40

exodus from, 40, 42, 44

xenophobia, 2

Egypt, modern, 11

Eichmann, Adolf, 137, 141

Eisenmenger (professor), 58, 82

Elephantine temple, 39–40

Eliade, Mircea, 112

Elias, Samuel “Dutch Sam,” 162

emancipation

advocates, 71

and Enlightenment era, 160

in France, 29

German philosophers on, 74–75

and nature of antisemitism, 155–56

opposition, 54, 65, 73–77, 80–81

Petlyura on, 104

Pinsker on, 26

in Russia, 29

emek ha’bacha (the valley of tears), 61

emigration and immigration

from Africa, 127

from Austria, 116

from Central Europe, 61

and demographic shifts, 11, 12

from Eastern Europe, 66, 134, 161–62

from Germany, 95, 116

Hitler on, 117

from Hungary, 176

during Middle Ages, 53

of Muslims, 201–2

to Palestine, 30

from Poland, 109, 176

political reaction to, 129–30

from Romania, 176–77

from Russia, 29, 84

from Soviet Union, 118, 177

to United States, 18, 84, 95, 142–43

from Western Europe, 61

Engels, Friedrich, 179

England, 54, 56, 76, 162. See also Britain

Enlightenment, 31, 71–79, 160, 171, 179

Enlightenment, Jewish (Haskalah), 82

equality, 179–80

Erasmus, 63

essentialist explanation of antisemitism, 45

Esther, book of, 39

eternal antisemitism theory, 33

ethnography, 92

eugenics, 94

Europe. See also specific countries and regions

assimilation of Jews, 2

attitudes toward Jews, 128, 149

and Black Death, 60–62

borders, 149

and Communism, 30

demographics, 10–12

and exodus of Jewry, 27

and Holocaust, 117, 122–23

immigration, 11, 126

and Islamist antisemitism, 199–200

Jewish population, 125, 126, 141, 172

legislation, anti-racialist, 131

in Middle Ages, 3–4, 50–62

and Middle East, 15

Muslim population, 10–13, 15–16

regional variations in antisemitism, 66, 69

socialism, 25

sources of antisemitism, 196, 197

status of Jews, 51–52, 172

trends in antisemitism, 10

violence against Jews, 38 (see also pogroms and massacres)

European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, 131

evil, Jews associated with, 149

Evola, Giulio, 129

exodus from Egypt, 40, 42, 44

exploitation of non-Jews, 157

expulsions of Jews

from Arab peninsula, 68

from Belgium, 54

from Bohemia, 65

from Britain, 36

and denials of Holocaust, 141

from England, 54

from France, 36, 50, 54

from Italy, 50

from Poland, 103, 134

from Portugal, 54, 69

from Russia, 79

from Spain, 36, 50, 54, 69

from Ukraine, 79

extermination camps, 119, 121, 135, 136, 141

Farrakhan, Louis, 146, 184

fascism, 10, 112–13, 125, 127, 129

Fatimids, 68

Faurisson, Robert, 136, 183

feminism, 148–49

Fez pogroms, 193

Fichte, Johann, 74, 75

Fini, Gianfranco, 127

First Crusade, 38, 51, 52–53

fiscus judaicus tax, 44–45

Flagellants, 55, 61–62

Flatow, Alfred, 162

Flatow, Gustav, 162

Ford, Henry, 99, 143

Fourier, Charles, 24, 79

Fourth Lateran Council in 1215, 54, 57

France

and Action Française, 87

assimilation of Jews, 151

attacks on Jews, 38, 51, 57, 77, 127–28

attitudes toward Jews, 65, 126, 150

and Black Death, 60

blood libel cases, 56

consular agents, 195

and Crusades, 52

and defenses against antisemitism, 163

demographics, 11, 13

Dreyfus case, 101–2

in Enlightenment era, 72

expulsions of Jews, 36, 50, 54, 62

and Freemasons, 73

French Revolution, 95–96, 171, 179

ghettos, 71

and Holocaust, 120

imperialism, 177

Jewish population, 29, 66, 125, 127

legislation, anti-racialist, 131

legislation, antisemitic, 110

literature on antisemitism, 23

Muslim population, 19, 126, 127–28

philosophers, 75

and Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 85

and religious sectarianism, 91

riots, 207

status of Jews, 154

transition to modern antisemitism, 5

Franco, Francisco, 113, 134

Frank, Ludwig, 162

Frankfurt, Germany, 37, 76

Frankfurt school of critical theory, 31, 32

Freemasons, 73, 95, 98, 113

French Revolution, 95–96, 171, 179

Freud, Sigmund, 37, 164, 166

Friedrich, Carl, 34

Fromm, Erich, 32

functionalist explanation of antisemitism, 45

fundamentalism, religious, 15, 182, 191, 198, 205

Gager, John, 33

Galton, Francis, 92

Garaudy, Roger, 130, 141, 183

Gaza, 183

Geremek, Bronislav, 134

Germany

assimilation of Jews, 151

associations defending Jews, 23

attacks on Jews, 51, 57

attitudes toward Jews, 65, 128, 150, 160

Berlin Olympic Games, 116

and Black Death, 60

blood libel cases, 56

and Crusades, 52

and defenses against antisemitism, 163

demographics, 11

and emancipation of Jews, 73, 76

emigration, 95, 116

expulsions of Jews, 138

financial restitution, 128, 176

foreign policy, 116

“German ideology,” 94–95

ghettos, 71

Green party, 185

and Holocaust, 118, 122, 135

and Jewish identity, 166

Jewish population, 23–24, 66, 93, 164

legislation, anti-racialist, 131

legislation, antisemitic, 115

Muslim population, 126

nationalism, 34

and Nazism, 31, 36, 100, 107, 113, 114–20, 125

philosophers, 74

pogroms, 117

population trends, 10, 36–37

and Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 98

and religious sectarianism, 91

socialism, 25

sources of antisemitism, 114

study of antisemitism in, 35

transition to modern antisemitism, 5

and Wilhelm Marr, 21

Gerstein, Kurt, 137

ghettos

and church, 62–63

effects on Jews, 37

in Enlightenment era, 71

establishment, 62–63

expansion of, 129

in Middle Ages, 3

in modern era, 76, 77

and Nazism, 118, 119

for Palestinians, 187

resistance, 119–20

and Zionism, 168

globalism, 15

Gobineau, Joseph, 92

Goebbels, Josef, 22

Goedsche, Hermann, 96

Goga, Octavio, 112

Gombos, Julius, 111

Granada, 68

Great Depression, 143–44

Greece, ancient, 2, 3, 41, 43–44

Greece, modern

attitudes toward Jews, 129

consular agents, 195

and Holocaust, 120, 122

Jewish population, 128–29

religious antisemitism, 10

Green party, 185

Gregory IX, 54, 58

Gregory X, 56

Granada pogroms, 193

Grimm’s Fairy Tales, 56

Gruenbaum, Isaac, 109

hadith, 67, 68

Haecateus of Abdera, 41

Haider, Jörg, 130

hair length, 43

Haman, 39

Hamas, 192

Harkabi, Yehoshafat, 196

Harwood, Richard, 136

Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment), 82

Hebrew language, 109, 168, 191

Hebron massacre, 196

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 74–75

Heine, Heinrich, 165

Hellenistic period, 41

Hep Hep disturbances, 76, 78

Herder, Johann, 75

Herzl, Theodor, 27, 29, 33, 164, 169

Heydrich, Reinhard, 118

Himmler, Heinrich, 118–19, 135

Hitler, Adolf. See also Holocaust; Nazis

announcement of intentions, 117, 135

and Chamberlain, 94

and “final solution,” 119–22

ideology, 114

on Kristallnacht pogrom, 117

leadership, 110, 115–16

propaganda, 113–14, 115

and Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 100

and resistance, 123

and revisionism, 137

sympathizers, 140, 141, 145, 187

and Zionist-collaboration theory, 200

Hobsbawm, Eric, ix

Hoess, Rudolf, 137, 141

Hofjuden (court Jews), 65

Holbach, Paul-Henri, baron d’, 72

Holland, 76, 129, 138

Hollywood, 143

Holocaust. See also Hitler, Adolf; Nazis

Arab and Muslim attitudes, 139

and assimilation of Jews, 2

concentration camps, 115, 117, 119, 121

denials of, 125, 134, 135–41, 184–85, 197

discussion of, 150

“final solution,” 118–24, 137

impact, 38, 123–24, 207

Jewish casualties, 121–22, 138

and persecution by Jews, 6

resistance, 122

significance, 149

and study of antisemitism, 35

as unique event, 123–24

Holy Sepulcher, 52

Homel pogrom, 85–86

homosexuals, 124, 198

Horkheimer, Max, 31

Horthy, Miklös, 110, 111

Howard, Michael, 149

Hugh of Lincoln, 56

Hungary

Arrow Cross, 107, 112, 121

assimilation of Jews, 109–10

attitudes toward Hungarians, 179

Black Death in, 60

and Communist leadership, 176

and defenses against antisemitism, 163

and emancipation of Jews, 76

emigration, 176

and Holocaust, 121, 122, 123

Jewish population, 107, 110, 128, 133

legislation, antisemitic, 111

and neofascism, 134

pogroms, 30

political parties, 30

revolutionary coups, 99

riots, 108

status of Jews, 167

Hussein, Saddam, 130

Iberian peninsula, 92

identity of Jews, 33–34, 165–66, 172–73

Ignacio de Loyola, 70

Illuminati, 95

immigration. See emigration and immigration

imperialism, 33, 177, 179, 187–88, 199

Imredi, Bela, 111

India, 204

Innocent III, 54

Innocent IV, 56

Inquisition, 62–63, 70

internationalism, 149, 182

Internet, 17, 130

Intifada, 14

intolerance among Jews, 40, 42, 44

Iran, 11, 140, 198, 201

Iraq, 188, 193, 196

Iron Guard of Romania, 107, 111, 112

Irving, David, 136

Islam. See also Muslims

and Christianity, 19, 52, 67–68, 192

and European antisemitism, 199–200

fundamentalism, 182, 191, 198, 205

hadith, 67, 68

Jews under rule of, 51, 67, 192–93

jihad, 192

Judaism’s rejection of, 1, 36, 151, 191–92, 193, 194

Koran, 59, 67–68, 147, 191–92, 193, 199

militancy, 205–6

and references to Jews, 6

and sources of antisemitism, 5, 197–98

status of Jews, 67–69

and Trotskyism, 186

Voltaire on, 71

Israel. See also anti-Zionism; Zionism

anti-Israelism, 5–6, 7, 9 (see also anti-Zionism)

and Arabs, 196–97, 202, 204–5

and Christianity, 45

criticisms, 6–7, 8

founding, 160, 182, 184

integration, 15

Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 8–10, 19–20, 187, 200, 203–5

Jewish population, 209

and left-wing opposition, 147–48

and Palestinians, 187

religious nationalism, 15, 205

Six-Day War, 181, 183, 204

and sources of antisemitism, 203

status, 14

as threat to world peace, ix, 7–8, 149, 186–87

and United States, 15, 17–18, 200

Israelitische Allianz, 160

Italy

attacks on Jews, 77

attitudes toward Jews, 150, 160

demographics, 10

expulsions of Jews, 50

and fascism, 112

and Holocaust, 120, 122

Jewish population, 66, 127

legislation, antisemitic, 113

and neofascism, 127

propaganda, 10

Japan, 86, 177

Jehovah’s Witnesses, 124

Jerusalem, 50, 192, 203, 205

Jesus Christ, 45–46, 74, 93, 151, 192

Jewish antisemitism, 159, 166, 176

Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah), 82

Jewish identity, 33–34, 165–66, 172–73

“Jewish question,” 23–25, 27, 29, 30

“Jewish spirit,” 21, 25

“The Jews and Their Lies” (Luther), 63–64

jihad, 192

John, book of, 47

John Chrysostom, 47–48, 49

Joly, Maurice, 96

Josef II, 76

Josephus, Flavius, 40, 41

Journal of Historical Review, 136

Judaizers, 48

Judas Iscariot, 48

Judeophobia, 5, 20, 22, 26, 201

Justin Martyr, 45, 47

Justinian I, 50

Juvenal, 43

Kaganovitch, Lazar, 30

Kallinikon, 50

Kant, Immanuel, 74, 75

Kautsky, Karl, 173, 180

Keynes, John Maynard, 155

Khomeinists, 198

King, Martin Luther, 145

Kishinev pogrom, 78, 85–86, 168

Kniga Kahala (Brafman), 82

Korherr, Richard, 121

Kristallnacht pogrom, 117, 147

Kun, Bela, 108, 110

Kunzelmann, Dieter, 147

Kurds, 2

La vieille taupe (the Old Mole), 137, 183

Lagarde, Paul, 22, 93

land ownership, 155

Landau, Ben, 200

Lassalle, Ferdinand, 172, 173

Latvia, 105

Lazare, Bernard, 27–29, 102

Le Monde, 13

Le Pen, Jean-Marie, 127, 130

League of Nations, 110, 116

left wing, 147–50. See also Communism

Friedrich on, 34

on Holocaust, 17

ideology, 15

and political parties, 185–86

on Zionism, 17, 150, 182

legal status of Jews

in Middle Ages, 3

in Muslim world, 193–94

in Poland, 81

in Roman civilization, 50

in Spain’s Golden Age, 69

Legion of Archangel Michael. See Iron Guard of Romania

legislation, anti-racialist, 131, 160

legislation, antisemitic

in Eastern Europe, 30

in Germany, 115

in Hungary, 111

in Italy, 113

opposition to, 110

in Poland, 109

Lenin, Vladimir Il’ich, 132, 173, 174

Leninism, 179–80, 182

Leo III, 50

Leon, Abram, 174

Leonard, Benny, 162–63

lepers, Jews as, 40, 42, 44

Lessing, Gotthold, 73

Lettwin, Oliver, 149

Leuchter, Fred, 136

Lewinsky, Monica, 201

Lewis, Bernard, 68

libel against Jews, 54. See also blood libel

Libya, 196

limpieza de sangre (purity of blood), 22, 70, 91–92, 159–60

literature, antisemitic, 65, 76, 96–101, 132, 174

literature on antisemitism, 22–23, 30–36

Lithuania, 80, 81, 103

Livingstone, Ken, 13

Lodz ghetto, 119, 120

Lombards, 154

London, England, 60

Louis, George, 87

Low Countries of Europe, 70

Lowther, Sir Gerald, 195

Lueger, Karl, 78

luftmenschen status, 167

Luke, book of, 46

Luther, Martin, 55, 63–64

Luxemburg, Rosa, 156, 173

Lvov, Poland, 107

Lysimachus, 41

Madagascar, 93, 109

Mahler, Horst, 129, 130, 183–84

Mainz, Germany, 52

Majdanek extermination camp, 119, 136

Makhno, Nestor, 104

Malik, Charles, 140–41

Manetho, 40

Manifestations of Antisemitism in the EU 2002–2003, 131

Manifesto group, 127

Maria Theresa, 65

Marr, Wilhelm, 21, 93

marriage, 50, 51, 115, 134, 193

Martial, 43

Marx, Karl, 24, 79, 157, 172, 173

Marxism, 31, 179–80, 182

Marxist Social Democrats, 79

Masons, 73, 95, 98, 113

Matthew, book of, 46

Mein Kampf (Hitler), 114

Mendoza, Daniel, 162

Mensheviks, 83, 105

Menuhin, Yehudi, 124

Merker, Paul, 175–76

Middle Ages, 50–62

conspiracy theories, 101

expulsions of Jews, 3–4

prosperity of Jews, 192–93, 194

and rule of Islam, 67

sources of antisemitism, 151–52, 153

middle class, 4, 34, 105

Middle East, 15, 126, 130, 141, 203

military conscription, 81, 82, 86

Minc, Hilari, 176

minorities, non-Jewish, 8, 77–78, 107, 144–45, 179–80

minority, Jews as, 1–2, 35

Minsk ghetto, 119

“The Mirror of the Jews” (Pfefferkorn), 63

missionary efforts of Jews, 42–43, 49

Mohamad, Mahathir, 198–99

monotheism, 3, 37, 40, 42, 44

Moses, 41, 42, 58, 192

Mossad, 200

Mueller, Max, 92

Muhammad, 67, 151, 191–92, 193, 194

Munich Olympic Games, 183

Muskeljudentum (physical fitness), 168

Muslim Brotherhood, 186, 198

Muslims. See also Islam

antisemitic activity, 131

anti-Zionism, 198

and Black Death, 61

and Christianity, 52

conspiracy theories, 20

and critics of Jews, 148

and Crusades, 52

in Europe, 10–13, 15–16

and Fourth Lateran Council, 54

in France, 19, 126, 127–28

and Holocaust, 139, 140–42

immigration, 11, 12, 127, 201–2

legal status of Jews, 193–94

political influence, 149–50

and prosperity of Jews, 194

relationships with Jews, 12–14, 18–19, 125, 128

and Russia, 16

sources of antisemitism, 201–2

in United States, 18

voting rights, 12

Mussert movement, 113

Mussolini, Benito, 120

Napoleon, 76

Narodniki groups, 83

Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 141, 198

Nasser, Najib, 195

Nation of Islam, 145, 184

National Alliance, 127

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 145

National Bolshevism, 129

National Democrats, 109

National Front, 127, 128

National Socialism, 179

nationalism

of Arabs, 182

and Nazism, 113

and neofascism, 127, 134

in nineteenth century, 171

religious nationalism, 15, 107, 205

and violence against Jews, 77

Nazis. See also Hitler, Adolf; Holocaust

and “antisemitism” term, 22

and Christianity, 144

concentration camps, 115, 117, 119, 121

cover-up of mass murders, 121, 135

current influence, 10

extermination camps, 119, 121, 135

“final solution,” 118–24, 137

and financial restitution, 128, 176

Friedrich on, 34

in Germany, 31, 36, 100, 107, 113, 114–20, 125

and ghettoization, 93

in Italy, 113

Jews acceptable to Nazis, 159

Jews under rule of, 118

and minorities, 111

neo-Nazism, 10, 17, 183, 209

opposition, 145

and Polish population, 134

propaganda, 113–14, 115

and Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 100

rise of, 107, 111

and St. John Chrysostom, 48

and study of antisemitism, 31, 35

and Zionist-collaboration theory, 137, 141, 200

Near East, 70

negationism, 125, 134, 135–41, 184–85, 197

neoconservativism, 188

neofascism

and decline of antisemitism, 130

emergence, 126–27, 133–34

and fascism, 127

and immigration, 11

influence, 10

neo-Nazism, 10, 17, 183, 209

Netherlands, 64, 113, 120, 122

Neumann, Franz, 31

Neumann, Michael, 149

“new antisemitism” (term), 5, 7, 9, 16, 189

New York Times, 143

Nicholas I, 81

Nicholas IV, 54, 56

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 93, 167

Nobel Prizes, 23, 162

Nordau, Max, 94, 168

North Africa, 127, 185, 193, 203

Northern League, 127

numerus clausus (quotas), 82

October Manifesto, 88

oil, 15

Oklahoma City federal building bombing, 144

Olympic Games, 116, 162, 183

Oppenheimer, Joseph Suess, 36

“Orat mater ecclesia” papal bull, 56

organ transplantation, 140

organized crime, 158

Oriental Jewry, 67

orientalization of Israel, 15

Origen, 47

The Origins of Totalitarianism (Arendt), 32–33

Orthodox Church, 80, 132, 178, 195

Ottoman empire, 13–14

Pakistan, 209

Pale of Settlement, 81–82, 86, 128

Palestine

and American blacks, 202

anti-Zionism, 195–96

British Mandate, 30

immigration, 84, 109

insurgencies, 182

Israeli-Palestinian

conflict, 8–10, 19–20, 187, 200, 203–5

and Jewish colonization, 195

and Jewish conspiracies, 140

and Jewish zealots, 44

loss of homeland, 196–97, 202, 203–5

restrictions on Judaism, 50

sacrifice of, 141

and sources of antisemitism, 203–5

and Zionism, 27, 167, 169

Pamyat antisemitic group, 132

Parkes, James, 31

Parsons, Talcott, 34–35

Pascal, Blaise, 166

patricide, 37

patriotism, 160, 161

Pauker, Ana, 176

Paulus, 45

Pearl, Daniel, 201

Pearson, Karl, 92

peasantry, Jewish, 24, 168

Pelley, William Dudley, 144

People of the Book (ahl al-kitab), 68, 192

People’s Democracies, 175, 177, 178

People’s Will party, 173

Pernersdorfer, Engelbert, 173

persecutors, Jews as, 6

Persians, 40

Peter the Hermit, 52

Peter the Venerable, 50

Petlyura, Symon, 104

Petronius, 43

Pfefferkorn, Johannes, 63

philology, 92

physical appearance of Jews, 43, 54, 80–81, 158–59, 168, 193

Pilate, Pontius, 46, 47, 48

Pilsudski, Joseph, 108, 109, 111

Pinsker, Leon, 26–27, 29

Plehve, V. K., 85

Pobedonostsev, Konstantin, 84

pogroms and massacres. See also Holocaust

in Algeria, 196

in Baghdad-Farhud, 196

during Black Death era, 38, 54, 60–62, 67

Chmielnicki massacre, 69

Crusades, 38, 51, 52–53

in Eastern Europe, 78

in Fez, 193

by Flagellants, 55

in Germany, 117, 147

in Granada, 193

in Hebron community, 196

in Hungary, 30

in Libya, 196

in North Africa, 193

in Romania, 30, 120

in Russia, 27, 29, 30, 38, 78, 83–89, 104, 105, 168

in Ukraine, 30

Poland

assimilation of Jews, 80–81

attacks on Jews, 57

attitudes toward Poles, 179

blood libel cases, 80

and Communist leadership, 176

and defenses against antisemitism, 163

emigration, 109, 176

expulsions of Jews, 103, 134

ghettos, 119, 120

and Holocaust, 117–18, 119, 121

Jewish population, 66, 79, 80, 81, 107

and “Jewish question,” 27

land ownership, 155

literature on antisemitism, 22

racialist antisemitism, 111

social tensions, 36

sources of antisemitism, 4

status of Jews, 65–66, 167

“street antisemitism,” 108

trades, 108

virulence of antisemitism, 108–9

Poliakov, Leon, 66

political antisemitism, 23, 77, 78, 126

political explanations of antisemitism, 49

political influence of Jews, 143, 156–57

political parties, 11, 30, 109, 185–86. See also specific parties

politics, Jews in, 77

popes, 53, 54, 56–57, 61

population trends, 10–11, 36–37. See also specific regions and countries

Populism, 142, 171, 173, 181–82

Portugal, 54, 62, 69–70, 146, 193

Posidonius, 41

post-racialist antisemitism, 20

poverty, 36, 84

Powell, Adam Clayton, 145

professions of Jews. See also usury

in Austria, 78

competitors, Jews as, 77, 95, 143, 154

entrepreneurship of Jews, 157

as estate managers, 79–80

in Hungary, 110

and Nazism, 115–16

in Poland, 108

restrictions on Jews, 3, 65, 66, 154

success of Jews in, 157–58

in United States, 142

proletariat, 185

propaganda. See also Protocols of the Elders of Zion

anti-Islamic propaganda, 198

of Arab world, 198, 203

and denials of Holocaust, 184

in Eastern Europe, 134, 175

of Henry Ford, 143

of Nazis, 115

political propaganda, 144

prevalence, 65, 76, 120

on Russia and Communism, 175

of Soviet Union, 178

Proskurov pogrom, 104

prosperity of Jews, 62, 157, 171, 194, 202

prostitution, 158, 187

Protestantism, 64, 91

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 96–101

and American policies, 188

in Arab world, 197

distribution, 105, 198

Ford’s distribution of, 143

influence, 29, 82, 85

modern interpretation, 9

in Spain, 113

Proudhon, Pierre, 24, 79

psychological explanations of antisemitism, 32, 37, 172

public office, 68, 75, 76, 176, 193

Puritanism, 25

purity of blood (limpieza de sangre), 22, 70, 91–92, 159–60

Qaradhawi, Youssef el, 199

Quintilianus, 42

Qutb, Sayyid, 198

race theory, 92–94

racialist antisemitism, 4–5, 22, 70, 91–95, 111

Rakosi, Matias, 176

Rashi, 154

Rassinier, Paul, 135–36

Rathenau, Walther, 159

Ree, Paul, 164

Reich Citizenship Law, 115

Reinhardt, Django, 124

religiosity of Jews, 2

religious sources of antisemitism, 36, 54

in Arab world, 196

and assimilation of Jews, 151

attitude of church, 66

and Black Death, 61–62

in Eastern Europe, 107

in Middle Ages, 151–52

in United States, 142

Renan, Ernest, 92

Republican party, 181

restitution, financial, 128, 176

Retcliffe, Sir John, 96

Reuchlin, Johann, 63

Revelation, book of, 46–47

revisionism, 125, 134, 135–41, 184–85, 197

Rhineland, Germany, 38, 52

Rhodes, Cecil, 33

Riga ghetto, 119

right wing, 10, 11, 17, 171, 172. See also specific groups, including Nazis

rights of Jews. See emancipation

riots, 76, 77, 83, 107–8

Rodinson, Maxime, 174

Rohling, August, 195

Roman, Petre, 134

Roman civilization, 2, 3, 41–44, 49, 50

Romania

and defenses against antisemitism, 163

emigration, 176–77

and Holocaust, 121, 122, 134

and Ion Antonescu, 134

Iron Guard, 107, 111, 112

Jewish population, 107, 128

legionnaires, 121

literature on antisemitism, 23

and neofascism, 134

pogroms, 30, 120

virulence of antisemitism, 111–12

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 144, 187

Roosevelt, Theodore, 94

Rosenberg, Alfred, 99

Rosenblum, Maxie, 163

Rosenzweig, Franz, 164

Ross, Barney, 163

Rotfeld, Adam, 134

Rothschild family, 25, 79, 142, 157

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 75

Russia

antisemitic activity, 131–33

and Arab societies, 16

assimilation of Jews, 81–83

attitudes toward Jews, 128

attitudes toward Russians, 179–80

blood libel cases, 89

and Chechnya, 7, 133, 134, 204

and communism, 150

and defenses against antisemitism, 163

expulsions of Jews, 103

and Holocaust, 118, 120

and Japan, 86

Jewish population, 16–17, 66, 79

literature on antisemitism, 22

and Muslims, 16, 126

pogroms, 27, 29, 30, 38, 78, 83–89, 104, 105, 168

population trends, 11

propaganda, 10, 175

and Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 29, 85, 98, 100

revolution, 30, 98–99, 104–5 (see also Bolshevism)

social tensions, 36

socialism, 25

sources of antisemitism, 4

status of Jews, 167

Russian Orthodox church, 80, 178

Sabbath ritual, 43, 44

Sachs, Maurice, 166

sacrifices, 40, 42

Sahih, 192

Saint-Simonians, 79

Salome, Lou Andreas, 164

Samuel, Maurice, 34

Sanacja political movement, 109

Saracens, 54

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 33–34, 147

Satan, 55, 199

scapegoats, 1, 33

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 75

segregation of Jews, 115. See also ghettos

self-hatred of Jews, 165–66

Semitic language, 21–22, 191

Seneca, 42–43

September 11th terrorist attacks, 200

sexual relationships, 115, 158, 193

Sharon, Ariel, 14, 186

Sharpton, Al, 184

Shaw, George Bernard, 94

Shi’a Muslims, 19, 69

shtetl, 168

Six-Day War, 181, 183, 204

skinheads, 130. See also neo-Nazism

Slansky trial, 134, 175

slave trade, 146, 158, 184, 187

Slovakia, 76

Smith, Adam, 155

Smith, Gerald, 144

Sobibor extermination camp, 119, 136

social Darwinism, 94

Social Democrats, 83, 94, 173, 184

social explanations of antisemitism, 36, 79, 157

Social Revolutionaries, 83, 105

socialism

and capitalism, 28, 79, 172

emergence, 78

leadership, 24–25

and working class, 185

Socrates of Constantinople, 48

Sombart, Werner, 25

South Africa, 84, 95, 103, 162

Southern Europe, 69

Soviet Union. See also Bolshevism

and Arabs, 197

and conspiracy theories, 177–78

emigration, 118, 177

expulsions of Jews, 138

fall of, 132, 180, 181

and Holocaust, 122, 139

Jewish population, 175, 209

propaganda, 178

racialist antisemitism, 179

Stalinism, 174

Spain

assimilation of Jews, 151

attitudes toward Jews, 150, 160

blood libel cases, 56

expulsions of Jews, 36, 50, 54, 62, 69

fascism, 113

Golden Age, 69

Jewish population, 128–29, 192–93

limpieza de sangre, 22, 70

persecution of Jews, 38, 68

population trends, 10–11

racialist antisemitism, 4

restrictions on Jews, 154

state-supervised antisemitism, 69

status of Jews, 53, 154

Speer, Albert, 114

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 28, 72

sports, Jews in, 162–63

St. Augustine of Hippo, 47, 48

St. Cyril, 50

St. Simon, 57

St. William of Norwich, 55

Stahl, Friedrich, 156

Stalin, Joseph, 30, 62, 105, 175, 177

Stalinism, 174, 186

stereotypes, 37, 158–59, 172, 175

Strauss, Leo, 188, 201

“street antisemitism,” 108

Streicher, Julius, 25–26

suicides of Jews, 52, 122

Summers, Lawrence, ix

Sunni Muslims, 19, 69

Sweden, 120

Switzerland, 76, 113, 150

Synod of Claremont, 50

Tacitus, 42, 43, 44

Talmud

anti-Christian references, 48–49, 152

and antisemites, 152–53

and conspiracy theories, 82

Eisenmenger on, 58–60

influence, 28

Pfefferkorn on, 63

The Talmud Jew (Rohling), 195, 197

“Talmud Jews,” 57–60

Tantawi, Muhammad Sayyed, 199

taxes on Jews

and the church, 53

in Germany, 116

in Muslim world, 68, 193

in Poland, 109

in Rome, 44–45

temples, destruction of, 39–40, 50

terrorism, 126, 144, 200

Theobald, 55

Theodorakis, Mikis, 9, 129, 149

Theodosius, 50

Theophrast, 40

Third Reich. See Nazis

third world, 15

Thiriart, Jean François, 129

Tiberius, 44

Tito, Josip Broz, 175

Tomaso, Pater, 194

trades of Jews. See professions of Jews

Transnistria, 120

Trebitsch, Arthur, 166

Treblinka extermination camp, 119

Trotsky, Leon, 30, 173, 174

Trotskyism, 174, 181, 185–86

Turkey, 11, 70, 185

Turner Diaries (MacDonald), 144

Uighurs, 8

Ukraine

blood libel cases, 80

expulsions of Jews, 79

and Holocaust, 121

Jewish population, 66, 81, 132

pogroms, 30, 38, 83–84, 104

United Kingdom. See Britain

United Nations, 8

United States

and anti-Americanism, 14, 17, 129, 187–88

and Communism, 177

and East Germany, 179

foreign policy, 17–18, 188

immigration, 18, 84, 95, 142–43, 162

imperialism, 187–88

and Israel, 15, 17–18, 200

Jewish population, 209

and Jewish spirit, 25

legislation, antisemitic, 110

literature on antisemitism, 23

political affiliation of Jews, 181

prevalence of antisemitism, 142–47

Urban II, 52

usury

interest rates, 155

Leon on, 174

modern equivalents, 9

as primary profession of Jews, 28, 153–54

resentment of, 3, 153–54

Valentin, Hugo, 31

Venice, Italy, 62

Verges, Jacques, 130

Vienna, Austria, 36

Vilna, Lithuania, 107

violence against Jews, 50. See also Holocaust; pogroms and massacres

Voevod, Vaida, 111–12

Volksgemeinschaft, 113

Voltaire, 71–72, 75

Von Rin, Anderl, 57

Wagner, Richard, 22, 93

Wales, 77

Wall Street banks, 177

Warburg, Max, 94

Warsaw ghetto, 119, 120

wealth of Jews, 62, 157, 171, 194, 202

Weber, Max, 25

Weininger, Otto, 159, 166

Weishaupt, Adam, 95

wells, poisoning of, 60–61

West Bank, 181, 183

Western Europe. See also specific countries

antisemitic activity, 131

attitudes toward Jews, 150

and Holocaust, 123

Jewish population, 107

Muslim population, 149–50

propaganda, 203

regional variations in antisemitism, 66, 69

and socialism, 78

White Russia, 81, 99, 104–5

Wiener Library in London, x

Wilhelm II, 93, 99

Williams, Lukyn, 31

Witte, Sergei, 87

women, 49

work of Jews. See professions of Jews

World Trade Center attacks, 200

World War I, 103–4, 110, 114

World War II. See Hitler, Adolf; Holocaust; Nazis

Worms, Germany, 52

xenophobia, 2, 41, 126, 127

Yavetz, Zvi, 42

Yemen, 193

Yiddish language, 109, 168

youth groups, antisemitic, 130–31

Yugoslavia, 122

Zambrowski, Roman, 176

Zealots, 43

“ZioNazis,” 184

Zionism. See also anti-Zionism

and assimilation of Jews, 169

and Bolshevism, 180

and colonization, 195

and Communism, 180

criticisms, 9

influence, 210

and Israel (state), 210

and Lazare, 29

left wing on, 17, 150, 182

and Marxist-Leninist doctrine, 180

motivations, 166–68

and Nazi-collaboration theory, 137, 141, 200

opponents, 168

and Pinsker’s views, 27

in Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 97

and revisionism, 137

and Soviet purges, 175

term, 6, 179

Zionist Occupation Government (ZOG), 17, 144

Zola, Emile, 102

Zuendel, Ernst, 136

Zunz, Leopold, 164