Bernard Lazare - Antisemitism: Its History and Causes
Bernard Lazare - Antisemitism: Its History and Causes
1995 | ISBN: 080327954X | English | 208 pages | PDF | 1 MB
1995 | ISBN: 080327954X | English | 208 pages | PDF | 1 MB
Bernard Lazare's controversial magnum opus, originally published in France in 1894, asks why the Jews have aroused such hatred for three thousand years. The journalist, though severed from his Jewish upbringing, was fiercely committed to social justice and could not ignore a shocking antisemitism in the fin-de-siècle circles he knew. In search mg for its historic causes, he was also searching for his own roots and place in the world. As biographer Nelly Wilsonhas noted, young Lazare was "constantly engaged in a dialogue with himself" when he wrote Antisemitism, Its History and Causes.