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Looking for a good book on anti-Semitism?
Anti-Semitism is a term coined, ironically, by a German anti-Semite in 1879.
As a phenomenon, it can be traced back at least 2,000 years as Greeks and then
Romans noted how only the Jews objected to worshipping other peoples' gods or
eating at their tables.
European Christian anti-Semitism was historically the most vicious, and led
directly to the Holocaust. Yet anti-Semitism has
also been a part of the Moslem world and has occurred even in countries where
there are no Jews!
It's amazing how masses of people have believed the rubbish that the anti-Semites
have produced over the centuries. It's one thing if they don't like us. After
all, the Jews have always been a bit of a bother to some, because we have
insisted for the last few thousand years on monotheism in a world that wasn't
monotheistic, and we've mostly not mixed very much with other folks. But it has
been difficult convincing the world that it could manage, really, without
inventing anti-Semitic canards now and then, one more preposterous than the
other, and killing Jews to satisfy themselves. Theodore Herzl believed that anti-Semitism would disappear with the
creation of the Jewish State. So far, that hasn't been the case. Moslem
anti-Semitism and now European anti-Semitism only thinly disguised as anti-Israelism
are lately getting worse, not better.
Here are some books on anti-Semitism that may help increase your
understanding - or at least knowledge - of it. Many relate to the Holocaust and
historical processes in Europe that led to it.
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