Jacob Katz: From Prejudice to Destruction. Anti-Semitism, 1700 - 1933. In English

"From Prejudice to Destruction: Anti-Semitism, 1700–1933" is a groundbreaking book by renowned Israeli historian Jacob Katz, published by Harvard University Press in 1980. The work provides a profound socio-historical analysis of how traditional religious prejudices against Jews in Europe gradually transformed into modern political and racial anti-Semitism, which ultimately paved the way for the Holocaust. In the book, Katz does not attempt to cover all of Europe. He concentrates his research primarily on Germany, Austria, and Hungary, while devoting several chapters to France. Chronologically, he focuses especially on the long nineteenth century and the period before 1933. Although the title mentions the year 1933, the book does not deal with Nazism itself in detail. Rather, it examines the intellectual and social conditions that enabled the Nazis to succeed.

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