The Crime of My Very Existence: Nazism and the Myth of Jewish Criminality

by Michael Berkowitz

Book Overview

The Crime of My Very Existence investigates a rarely considered yet critical dimension of anti-Semitism that was instrumental in the conception and perpetration of the Holocaust: the association of Jews with criminality. Drawing from a rich body of documentary evidence, including memoirs and little-studied photographs, Michael Berkowitz traces the myths and realities pertinent to the discourse on "Jewish criminality" from the eighteenth century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520251148
• ISBN13: 9780520251144
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"