Anti-Semitism - Select Bibliography (English)

This bibliography in progress contains well-established works by renowned scholars as well as lesser-known items (See references to works in German below).

There is a separate bibliography for Critical Writing on Literary and Artistic Responses to the Holocaust, one for Holocaust Memoirs, Testimonies, and Histories, and one for Critical Writing on Literary and Artistic Responses to the Holocaust.

For a list of Holocaust novels, stories, plays, and poems, see Literary Responses to the Holocaust.

Online References

Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism <http://sicsa.hui.ac.il>

Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism <canisa.info@gmail.com>

Reference Works

Antisemitism: Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. Richard S. Levy. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2005.

Dictionary of Antisemitism: From the Earliest Times to the Present. Robert Michael and Philip Rosen. Lanham. MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2007. 

The Journal for the Study of Antisemitism (JSA)

Antisemitism: A History. Eds.Lindemann, Albert S. and Richard S. Levy. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.  

Antisemitism in the Modern World: An Anthology of Texts. Ed. Richard S. Levy, Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1991.  

Antisemitism Throughout the Ages. Ed. Shmuel Almog, Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1988.  

Antisemitism Worldwide. Eds. Dina Porat and Roni Stauber. Tel Aviv: Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies,  2006.  

Adorno, Theodor W. “Elements of Antisemitsm.” Trans. Edmund Jephcott (1947). In Can One Live after Auschwitz: A Philosophical Reader. Ed. Rolf Tiedeman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003) 391-426.

Allport, Gordon W. The Nature of Prejudice. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1954.

Baird, Robert M. and Stuart E. Rosenbaum. Bigotry, Prejudice and Hatred: Definitions, Causes and Solutions. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1992.

Bankier, David. Ed. Probing the Depths of German Antisemitism in German Society and the Persecution of the Jews, 1933-1941. Jerusalem: Yad-Vashem & Berghahn Books & Leo Baeck. 2000. [A collection of articles on Nazi anti-Jewish policies, attitudes of Germany's elite, the churches, workers and "ordinary Germans"; with index of names and places. The book offers a study of the “pre-mass-deportations,” killing and persecution of Jews and expropriation of their property inside the Reich.]

Banton, M. The Race Concept. New York: Praeger, 1975.

Barrett, Stanley R. Is God a Racist? The Right Wing in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987.

Bar-Tal, Daniel. "Delegitimization: The Extreme Case of Stereotyping and Prejudice." In Stereotyping and Prejudice: Changing Conceptions. New York, Berlin: Springer, 1989:169-182.

Bartov, Omer. The “Jew” in Cinema: From the Golem to Don’t Touch My Holocaust. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.

Beloff, M. "Antisemitism Today." Patterns of Prejudice. 16 (no. 4), 1982.

Bergmann, Werner and Rainer Erb. Anti-Semitism in Germany: The Post-Nazi Epoch Since 1945. Trans. Belinda Cooper and Allison Brown. New Brunswick, US: Transaction Publishers, 1997.

Bramwell, Anna. Blood and Soil: Richard Walther Darré and Hitler's "Green Party". Abbotsbrook, 1985.

Bronner, Stephen Eric. A Rumor about the Jews: Reflections on Antisemitism and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. Brustein, William. The Logic of Evil: The Social Origins of the Nazi Party. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. [Examining economic self-interest as the basis for Nazism's appeal; incl. Party membership records]

Calvocoressi, Peter, Guy Wint and John Pritchard. The Causes and Courses of the Second World War. London: Penguin, 1989.

Cashmore, Ernest. Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations. London and New York: Routledge, 1992.

Chalk, Frank and Kurt Jonassohn. The Histoy of Sociology of Genocide: Analysis and Case Studies. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990.

Chazan, Robert. Medieval Stereotypes and Modern Antisemitism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Cohn, Norman. Patterns of Prejudice. Volume 33 Issue 04. 1 Oct. 1999.

Dippel, John van Houten. Bound upon a Wheel of Fire: Why so Many German Jews Made the Tragic Decision to Remain in Nazi Germany. New York: Basic Books, 1996. [Discusses the lives of 6 Jews with high social positions: Bella Fromm (diary); Hans-Joachim Schoeps; Willstätter (Nobel prize laureate for chemistry); Leo Baeck (rabbi and influential religious leader).]

Felsenstein, Frank. Anti-Semitic Stereotypes: A Paradigm of Otherness in English Popular Culture, 1660-1830. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

Freud Loewenstein, Andrea. Loathsome Jews and Engulfing Women: Metaphors of Projection in the Works of Wyndham Lewis, Charles Williams, and Graham Greene. New York and London: New York University Press, 1993.

Gager, John. The Origins of Anti-Semitism. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Geller, Jay. The Other Jewish Question: Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. (Jewish embodiment in Germanophone cultures between the Enlightenment and the Holocaust)

Gerstenfeld, Manfred. Europe’s Crumbling Myths: The Post-Holocaust Origins of Today’s Anti- Semitism. Forw. Emil L. Fackenheim. Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi, 2003.

Gilman, Sander. Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 1985.

#Gilman, Sander and Steven Katz. Eds. Anti-Semitism in Times of Crisis. New York: New York University Press, 1991.

#Gilman, Sander. Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.

Graumann, Carl F. and Margret Wintermantel. "Discriminatory Speech Acts: A Functional Approach." In Stereotyping and Prejudice: Changing Conceptions. New York, Berlin: Springer, 1989:183-204.

Gutman, Yisrael. "On the Character of Nazi Antisemitism." In Antisemitism through the Ages. Ed. Almog. 349-80.

Herf, Jeffrey. The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust. . Cambridge, MS: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Judaken, Jonathan. Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question: Anti-antisemitism and the Politics of the French Intellectual. Lincoln NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.

Katz, Jacob. From Prejudice to Destruction: Anti-Semitism, 1700-1933. Cambridge, MS, 1980.

Kertzer, David I., ed. Old Demons, New Debates: Anti-Semitism in the West. Teaneck, NJ: Holmes & Meier, 2005. [Articles by Omar Bartov, Robert S. Wistrich, Deborah Lipstadt, Nathan Glazer, Danila J. Goldhagen & o.] Mellinkoff, Ruth. Outcasts: Signs of Otherness in Northern European Art of the Late Middle Ages. Vol. I and II. Berkeley, CA: University of California P, 1993.

Langmuir, Gavin I. Toward a Definition of Antisemitism. Berkeley: University of California, 1990.

Lassner, Phyllis and Lara Trubowitz. Eds. Antisemitism and Philosemitism in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008.

Lewis, Bernard. “The New Anti-Semitism.” The American Scholar Vol. 75 No. 1 (Winter 2006): 25-36.

Lewis, Bernard. Semites and Antisemites. New York and London: Norton, 1986.

Lindemann, Albert S. Esau’s Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Loewenberg, Peter. "The Kristallnacht as a Public Degradation Ritual." LBIYB (1987) 309-23.

Memmi, A. Portrait of a Jew. New York: Viking, 1976.

Paris, Erna. The End of Days: A Story of Tolerance, Tyranny, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. Toronto: Lester, 1995.

Proctor, Robert. Racial Hygiene. Cambridge, MS: Harvard University Press, 1988. Sartre, Jean-Paul. "Portrait of the Anti-Semite," In Baird, Robert M. and Stuart E. Rosenbaum. Bigotry, Prejudice and Hatred: Definitions, Causes and Solutions. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1992, 35-45.

Steiman. Lionel B. Paths to Genocide: Antisemitism in Western History. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.

Steinweis, Alan E. Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany. London Cambridge, MS: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Stern, Guy. “The Rhetoric of Anti-Semitism in Postwar American Literature.” In Anti-Semitism Times of Crisis. Sander L. Gilman and Steven T. Katz, eds. New York: NY University Press, 1991, 291-310.

Walser Smith, Helmut. The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.

Weiner, Marc A. Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska P, 1997.

Wistrich, Robert S. A Lethal Obsession: Antisemitism: From Antiquity to the Global Jihad. New York: Random House, 2010.  

Wistrich, Robert S. Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred.  London: Methuen, 1991.  

Wistrich, Robert S. Ed. Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism in the Contemporary World. London: Methuen, 1990.  

Wistrich, Robert S. Muslim Antisemitism: A Clear and Present Danger. New York: American Jewish Committee, 2002.

Wodak, Ruth. Language, Power and Ideology: Studies in Political Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1989. [Functions and definition of prejudice]

Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth. The Anatomy of Prejudices. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Ahrendt, Hannah. Rahel Varnhagen: the life of a Jewess. Trans. from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. London: Pub. for the Institute by the East.

Bein, Alex. The Jewish Question: Biography of a World Problem. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990.  

Craig, Gordon.  The Germans. New York and Scarborough, ON: Meridian, 1982.  

Doerr, Karin. “Franz Kafka’s Last Story’Josephine the Singer or The Nation of Mice’ Under the Cloud of Antisemitism.” Afterword  to Franz Kafka: “Josephine the Singer or The Nation of Mice.” Trans. Karin Doerr and Barbara Galli, with Gary Evans. Montreal: Hungry 1 Books, 2009.

 Doerr, Karin "The Specter of Anti-Semitism in and around Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's Judenbuche." In German Studies Review. XVII (Oct. 1994):3.

 Felstiner, John. Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

 Carroll, James. Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

 Chazan, Robert. European Jewry and the First Crusade. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

 Kaplan, Marion. Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

 Hoffman, Eva. Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

The Holocaust: Selected Documents in Eighteen Volumes, 3. The Crystal Night Pogrom. John Mendelssohn, ed.  New York: Garland, 1982.  

Harrowitz, Nancy Anne, ed. Tainted Greatness: Antisemitism and Cultural Heroes. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995.

Isenberg, Noah. Between Redemption and Doom: The Strains of German-Jewish  Modernism. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. [Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Arnold Zweig, Weimar cinema & antisemitism.

 Mack, Michael. German Idealism and the Jew: The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Michael,  Robert and Karin Doerr. Nazi Deutsch/Nazi German: An English Lexicon of the Language of the Third Reich. Newport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

 Passelecq, Georges and Bernard Suchecky. The Hidden Encyclical of Pius XI. Trans. From the French by Steven Rendall. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1997.

 Presener, Todd Samuel. Mobile Modernity: Germans, Jews, Trains. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.

Rosenfeld, Alvin H. The End of the Holocaust. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2011. [Incl. thoughts on past, present, and future Holocaust scholarship]

 Schama, Simon. Landscape and Memory. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

Adorno, Theodor. "Zur Bekämpfung des Antisemitismus heute." In Gesammelte Schriften. Bd. 20.1. Ed. Susan Buch-Morss und Klaus Schulz. Frankfurt/M: Suhrkamp, 1986, 361-383.

 Albertsen, Ludwig Leif. "Der Jude in der deutschen Literatur 1750-1850. Bemerkungen zur Entwicklung eines literarischen Motivs zwischen Lessing und Freytag." In arcadia, 19 (1984), 21-33.

 Bayersdörfer, Hans-Peter. "Das Bild des Ostjuden in der deutschen Literatur." In Juden und Judentum in der Literatur. Eds. Herbert A. Strauss und Christhard Hoffmann. München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1985, 211-236.

 Bergmann, Werner, Rainer Erb and Albert Lichtblau. Eds. Schwieriges Erbe: Der Umgang mit Nazionalsozialismus und Antisemitismus in Österreich, der DDR und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Frankfurt: Campus, 1995.

 Broder, Henryk M. Der Ewige Antisemit. Über Sinn und Funktion eines beständigen Gefühls. Frankfurt/M: Fischer, 1986.

 Brumlik, Micha. "Die Angst vor dem Vater. Judenfeindliche Tendenzen im Umkreis neuer sozialer Bewegungen." In Antisemitismus nach dem Holocaust. Bestandsaufnahme und Erscheinungsformen in deutschsprachigen Ländern. Eds. Alphons Silbermann und Julius H. Schoeps. Köln: Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, 1986, 133-162.

 Fenichel, Otto. "Elemente einer psychoanalytischen Theorie des Antisemitismus'" in Detlef Claussen, ed. Vom Judenhaß zum Antisemitismus. Darmstadt/Neuwied, 1987.

 Frank, Margit. Das Bild des Juden in der deutschen Literatur im Wandel der Zeitgeschichte. Studien zu jüdischen Gestalten und Namen in deutschsprachigen Romanen und Erzählungen 1918-1945. Freiburg: Burg-Verlag, 1987.

 Graus, Franisek. Pest--Geissler--Judenmorde: Das 14. Jahrhundert als Krisenzeit. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1988.

 Greive, Hermann. Geschichte des modernen Antisemitismus in Deutschland. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1983.

 Hiemer, Ernst. Der Jude im Sprichwort der Völker. Nürnberg: Der Stürmer, 1942. [antisemitc text]

 Jensen, Wilhelm. Die Juden von Cölln. Novelle aus dem deutschen Mittelalter. Flensburg, 1869.

Klüger, Ruth. Über deutsche Literatur. Goettingen: Wallstein-Verlag, 1994.

Kropat, Wolf-Arno. “Reichskristallnacht:” Der Judenpgrom vom 7. Bis 10. November 1938— Urheber, Täter, Hintergründe. Wiesbaden: Kommission für die Geschichte der Juden in Hessen, 1997.

Luther, Martin. Weimarer Ausgabe, Tischreden II. No. 2634a. Weimar: H. Böhlau, 1883.

Michalski, Gabrielle. Der Antisemitismus im deutschen akademischen Leben in der Zeit nach dem I. Weltkrieg. Frankfurt/M: Peter Lang, 1980.

Peters, Paul. Heinrich Heine "Dichterjude:" Die Geschichte einer Schmähung. Frankfurt/M: Anton Hain, 1990.

Raabe, Wilhelm. Höxter und Corvey.In Sämtliche Werke. Braunschweiger Ausgabe. Vol 11. Freiburg und Braunschweig, 1956.

Reichel, Peter. Politik mit der Erinnerung: Gedächtnisorte im Streit um die nationalsozialistische Vergangenheit. Munich: Carl Hanser, 1995.

Safrian, Hans and Hans Witek. Eds. Und keiner war dabei. Dokumente des alltäglichen Antisemitismus in Wien 1938. Vienna: Picus, 1988. [A self-condemning documentary on account of the antisemitic expressions in Vienna in the wake of the Anschluß.]

Steinman, Lionel B. Paths to Genocide: Anti-Semitism in Western History. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998.

Treitschke, Heinrich von. Deutsche Geschichte im Neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Leipzig, 1879- 1894.

Willms, Johannes. Der 9. November: Fünf Essays zur deutschen Geschichte. München: C.H. Beck, 1994.