The history of anti-semitism

[bailey_187]

what good books are there on this? If there is anything from a Marxist view that would be great, but anything really.

[Roach]

I too would like something about this,but more especifically on tsarist russia.

[bailey_187]

I found one book

its called The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation by Abram Leon. I dont know how good it is though.

[28350]

I found one book

its called The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation by Abram Leon. I dont know how good it is though.

I found it pretty good

[bailey_187]

How far back does the history go?

[Coggeh]

How far back does the history go?
It doesn't give a history of it, it deals with situations such as pogroms in russia and western Europe of jews and how are jewish people positioned within society and their role in the revolutionary movement.

The book(more like a long essay) was pretty revolutionary for its time but now its information would be quite common sense for any revolutionary leftist.

I would recomend this book: Edward H. Flannery, The Anguish of the Jews: Twenty-Three Centuries of Antisemitism.
Written by a priest, not exactly revolutionary by all means but if its the basic info your looking for than its pretty good.

[Yehuda Stern]

Abraham Leon's book thesis is quite problematic, inasmuch as it's conclusion - that Jews are a pre-feudal remnant - can make anti-Semitism look progressive in some sense. I'm sure that wasn't his intention but that's what it comes down to.