Daniel Jonah Goldhagen has revisited a question that history has come to treat as settled, and his researchers have led him to the inescapable conclusion that none of the established answers holds true. That question is: "How could the Holocaust happen?" His own response is a ne…
Published to vast controversy and acclaim, this groundbreaking work lays to rest one of the most persistent myths about the Holocaust: that most Germans were either ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews or participated in it reluctantly. Goldhagen's compelling body of evidenc…
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen has revisited a question that history has come to treat as settled, and his researchers have led him to the inescapable conclusion that none of the established answers holds true. That question is: "How could the Holocaust happen?" His own response is a ne…
"The author describes an unprecedented and global rise in anti-Semitism being fueled by technology and spread by politicians, religious leaders and intellectuals on every continent"
The author describes an unprecedented and global rise in anti-Semitism being fueled by technology and spread by politicians, religious leaders, and intellectuals on every continent.
The author describes an unprecedented and global rise in anti-Semitism being fueled by technology and spread by politicians, religious leaders and intellectuals on every continent.
"This incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational anti-Judaism is to the history of the West."
In 1933 the German Zionist Federation sought Hitler s patronage: "Zionism hopes to be able to win the collaboration even of a government fundamentally hostile to Jews. . . . Boycott propaganda . . . currently being carried on against Germany . . . is in essence un-Zionist." Zion…