Table of Contents

1. Introduction ; 2. The Burden of the Past ; 3. The Chosen People ; 4. The Culture of Irrationalism ; 5. The Perils of Modernity ; 6. Concatenations and Consequences ; 7. After Auschwitz

About the Author

Steven Beller is a Visiting Scholar at George Washington University, Washington D.C., and former Research Fellow in History at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. His previous books include Herzl (Jewish Thinkers Series); Rethinking Vienna 1900; and Vienna and the Jews: 1867-1938.

Reviews

The strongest part of Beller's book is his exemplary introductory chapter, "What is Anti-Semitism?", which should be required reading for all students of the Nazis and the Sah, of ethnic violence and of historiography. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies