Table of Contents

I-IV -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction: Possibilities and Limits of Comparison -- Part I Germany -- Germany - Continuities, Ambiguities, and Political Style -- Anti-Semitism and the "Great Depression", 1873-1896 -- Anti-Semitism and Minority Policy -- Structure and Functions of German Anti-Semitism 1878-1914 -- The Social and Political Function of Late 19th Century Anti-Semitism: The Case of the Small Handicraft Masters -- The Jewish Arrival at Higher Education -- Roman Catholics, the Centre Party and Anti-Semitism in Imperial Germany -- Antisemitism by Other Means? The Rural Cooperative Movement in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany -- Political Transformations During the War and their Effect on the Jewish Question' -- Hostages of "World Jewry": On the Origin of the Idea of Genocide in German History -- Völkisch Origins of Early Nazism: Anti-Semitism in Culture and Politics -- Anti-Semitism in Weimar Society -- The Jews in Weimar Germany: The Impact of Anti-Semitism on Universities, Political Parties and Government Services -- Voter Perceptions of Nazi Propaganda: The Issue of Modernization -- Nazi Persecution of the Jews and Emigration -- German Popular Opinion and the "Jewish Question", 1939-1943: Some further Reflections -- The Persecution of the Jews: Its Place in German History -- Part II Great Britain -- Great Britain - The Minor Key -- Anti-Semitism with the Boots Off -- Anti-Semitism in British Society, 1876-1939 -- Aspects of the Working Class Response to the Jews in Britain -- The Anti-Jewish Riots of August 1911 in South Wales -- The English Dilemma: Political Custom and Latent Prejudice -- Political Anti-Semitism in England 1918-1939 -- Attack and Counter-Attack -- The Balance Sheet: Summary and Evaluation -- Part III France -- France: - Intertwined Traditions -- The Roots of Popular Anti-Semitism in the Third Republic -- Chronology of the Dreyfus Case -- The Politics of Shopkeeper Protest -- Boulangism and the Dreyfus Affair 1886-1900 -- Antisemitism in France at the Time of the Dreyfus Affair -- The French Extreme Right and the Concept of Pre-Fascism -- The Roots of Vichy Antisemitism -- Origins of the "Jewish Problem" in the Later Third Republic -- Public Opinion, 1940-42