anti-Semitism: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

General historical overviews of anti-Semitism include Léon Poliakov, The History of Anti-Semitism, 4 vol. (1965–85; originally published in French, 1955–68); and Robert S. Wistrich, Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred (1991; reissued 1994). Rosemary Ruether, Faith and Fratricide: The Theological Roots of Anti-Semitism (1974, reissued 1997), is an important study of Christian anti-Semitism. Joshua Trachtenberg, The Devil and the Jews: The Medieval Conception of the Jew and Its Relation to Modern Anti-Semitism (1943, reprinted 1983), is a seminal study of medieval anti-Semitism. Robert Chazan, Medieval Stereotypes and Modern Antisemitism (1997); and Gavin Langmuir, Toward a Definition of Antisemitism (1990), are other important studies of medieval anti-Semitism. Good introductions to anti-Semitism during the Reformation are Mark U. Edwards, Luther’s Last Battles: Politics and Polemics, 1531–46 (1983); and R. Po-Chia Hsia, The Myth of Ritual Murder: Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany (1988). Arthur Hertzberg, The French Enlightenment and the Jews (1968, reissued 1990), explores the anti-Semitic dimensions of Enlightenment thought. For interesting and often conflicting portraits of Nazi anti-Semitism, see John Weiss, The Ideology of Death: Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany (1996); and Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (1996).

Researcher's Note

hyphenation of the word anti-Semitism

Some scholars and activists advocate the term anti-Semitism be de-hyphenated, spelling it instead as antisemitism. Advocates for the hyphen’s removal argue that the change may help dispel pseudoscientific notions of a "Semitic race" and belief in the existence of a derivative “Semitism.”

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Type Description Contributor Date
Added cross-reference. Sep 25, 2024
Link added. Jul 09, 2024
Modified link of Web site: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Holocaust Encyclopedia - Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial. May 07, 2024
Added cross-reference to Yad Vashem. Jan 19, 2024
Media added. Jun 05, 2023
Updated the discussion of anti-Semitism in the 21st century. Nov 10, 2022
Add new Web site: Southern Poverty Law Center - Antisemitism. Aug 21, 2022
Added Researcher's Note and deleted discussion of “Semites,” an obsolete racial category. May 11, 2022
Removed misleading sentence. Feb 04, 2022
Add new Web site: English Heritage - History and Stories - The Massacre at Clifford's Tower. Apr 21, 2020
Add new Web site: English Heritage - History and Stories - The Massacre at Clifford's Tower. Apr 21, 2020
Add new Web site: BBC - Readmission of Jews to Britain in 1656. Apr 06, 2020
Add new Web site: BBC - Readmission of Jews to Britain in 1656. Apr 06, 2020
Add new Web site: Our Migration Story - Blood Libels, Castration and Christian Fears: Opposition to Jewish Citizenship. Apr 01, 2020
Add new Web site: Our Migration Story - Blood Libels, Castration and Christian Fears: Opposition to Jewish Citizenship. Apr 01, 2020
Add new Web site: Our Migration Story - Jewish Immigration and the Aliens Act. Mar 17, 2020
Add new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - United Kingdom Virtual Jewish History Tour. Mar 17, 2020
Add new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - United Kingdom Virtual Jewish History Tour. Mar 17, 2020
Add new Web site: Our Migration Story - Jewish Immigration and the Aliens Act. Mar 17, 2020
Cross-references added. Jan 13, 2020
Expanded the description of the racial dimension of Nazi anti-Semitism and qualified the 5.7 million total of Jews who were exterminated. Sep 13, 2018
Corrected display issue. Jul 06, 2018
Add new Web site: Anti-Defamation League - What is Anti-Semitism? Dec 18, 2017
Add new Web site: British Library - Anti-Semitism. May 03, 2017
Anti-Semitism since the Holocaust and outside Europe section revised and updated. Jun 10, 2014
Add new Web site: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Holocaust Encyclopedia - Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial. Jun 22, 2011
Added new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Anti-Semitism. Sep 25, 2008
Added new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Anti-Semitism. Jul 29, 2008
Article revised and updated. Mar 06, 2008
Added new Web site: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Aug 04, 2006
Added new Web site: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Aug 04, 2006
Article revised. Jun 24, 2004
Article revised. Apr 05, 2002
Article revised. Jan 12, 2001
Article revised. Mar 16, 1999
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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