The Resistible Rise of Antisemitism: Exemplary Cases from Russia, Ukraine, and Poland

by Laura Engelstein

Book Overview

Antisemitism emerged toward the end of the nineteenth century as a powerful political movement with broad popular appeal. It promoted a vision of the world in which a closely-knit tribe called "the Jews" conspired to dominate the globe through control of international finance at the highest levels of commerce and money lending in the towns and villages. This tribe at the same time maneuvered to destroy the very capitalist system it was said to control...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684580099
• ISBN13: 9781684580095
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"