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Antisemitism in literature

Here are entered works on the theme of antisemitism in literature. Collections of works reflecting antisemitic views or policies as well as discussions of such works are entered under Antisemitic literature.

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• Antisemitism
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• The Footsteps of Israel: Understanding Jews in Anglo-Saxon England (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Andrew P. Scheil (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antizion: A Survey of Commentary on Organized Jewry by Leading Personalities Through the Ages, ed. by William Grimstad (PDF at Wayback Machine)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Confronting Antisemitism From the Perspectives of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism (An End to Antisemitism v2; Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2020), ed. by Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat, and Lawrence H. Schiffman (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Antisemitism and the Left: On the Return of the Jewish Question (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, c2017), by Robert Fine and Philip Spencer (PDF files at Manchester Openhive)
• Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism: A Report Provided to the United States Congress (2008), by United States Department of State
  • HTML and PDF at state.gov
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Antisemitism: 2007 Hate Crime Survey (web version; New York et al.: Human Rights First, c2007), by Michael McClintock and Paul LeGendre (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• The Past Didn't Go Anywhere: Making Resistance to Antisemitism Part of All of Our Movements (2007), by April Rosenblum (PDF with commentary at aprilrosenblum.com)
• Antisemitism Today: How It Is the Same, How It Is Different, and How to Fight It (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2006), by Kenneth S. Stern (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Socialism Answers Anti-Semitism (online edition, 2006), by Eric Hass (PDF transcription at slp.org)
• European Anti-Semitism Reinvents Itself (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2005), by Robert S. Wistrich (PDF at ajcarchives.org)
• Antisemitism Matters (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2004), by Kenneth S. Stern (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Anti-Americanism and Anti-Semitism: A New Frontier of Bigotry (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2003), by Alvin H. Rosenfeld (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Antisemitism: An Assault on Human Rights (submitted to United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, 2001), by Anthony Julius, Robert S. Rifkind, Jeffrey Weill, and Felice D. Gaer (HTML at ajc.org)
• Decoding Antisemitism: A Guide to Identifying Antisemitism Online (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, c2024), ed. by Matthias J. Becker, Hagen Troschke, Matthew Bolton, and Alexis Chapelan
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer Nature Link
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• Arafat's Culture of Hatred and Violence: Anti-Israel and Anti-Semitic Hatred in the Palestinian Authority's Media, Schools, Summer Camps, Religious Sermons and Officials' Speeches (New York: Zionist Organization of America, ca. 2000), by Zionist Organization of America (PDF at zoa.org)
• Anti-Semitism and Emotional Disorder: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation (c1950), by Nathan W. Ackerman and Marie Jahoda (PDF files at ajcarchives.org)
• Socialism Answers Anti-Semitism (New York: New York Labor News Co., 1946), by Eric Hass (PDF at flvc.org)
• "Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By": Jews of Conscience on Palestine (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2025), ed. by Susan Landau
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• Who Are the Real Racists at the United Nations? (Newton, MA: Temple Emmnauel, 1975), by Samuel Chiel (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Socialism Answers Anti-Semitism (New York: New York Labor News Co., 1944), by Eric Hass (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "Am I an Anti-Semite?" 9 Addresses on Various "Isms", Answering the Question (1939), by Charles E. Coughlin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Answer to Anti-Semitism (c1939), by American League to Combat Antisemitism (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Why Are Jews Persecuted? (fifth edition; St. Louis, MO: The Queen's Work, 1939), by Joseph N. Moody
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Concerning the Jews (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1934), by Mark Twain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Anti-Zionism: The Sophisticated Anti-Semitism (New York: American Jewish Committee, 1990), by Kenneth S. Stern (PDF at ajcarchives.org)
• Nationalism, a Cause of Anti-Semitism (New York: Bloch Pub. Co., 1928), by Samuel Blitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anti-Semitism: Its Cause and Cure (1921 edition), by Daniel De Leon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Conquest of the World by the Jews (1970s reprint of an 1878 publication), by Major Osman, ed. by F. W. Mathias (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Danger in Discord: Origins of Anti-Semitism in the United States (from the Freedom Pamphlets series; New York and Chicago: Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'rith, c1948), by Oscar Handlin and Mary Flug Handlin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Program for the Jews; An Answer To all Anti-Semites: A Program for Humanity (c1939), by Harry Waton (HTML with commentary in Australia)
• The So-Called "Protocols of the Elders of Zion": A Definitive Exposure of One of the Most Malicious Lies in History (Reviewer's library #3; Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., c1936), by Isaac Goldberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Buch vom Kahal (2 volumes in German; Leipzig: Hammer-Verlag, 1928), by I︠A︡kov Aleksandrovich Brafman, ed. by Siegfried Passarge, contrib. by G. I. Bogrov
  • both volumes: PDF files in Germany
  • Volume II: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Die Judenfrage (German translation of Dostoyevsky's "Jewish Question" essay in his Writer's Diary; Dachau: Einhorn, ca. 1920), by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, trans. by E. K. Rahsin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Judenfrage und der Gymnasiallehrer: Ein Beitrag zur Richtigstellung der Öffentlichen Meinung (third edition, in German; Berlin: F. Luckhardt, 1880), by Ernst Siecke
  • page images in Germany
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Gentile Ass and the Judean Monetary Establishment Advocating Pure Bimetallism (Chicago: Mighty Price Quotient Series, 1895), by Ebenezer Wakeley, illust. by L. Frizolle
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The History of a Lie: "The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion" (New York: J. S. Ogilvie Pub. Co., c1921), by Herman Bernstein, contrib. by John Retcliffe
  • at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Le Crime Rituel Chez les Juifs (in French; Paris: P. Téqui, 1914), by Albert Monniot, contrib. by Édouard Drumont
  • page images in Germany
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Myth of the Jewish Menace in World Affairs: or, The Truth about the Forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Lucien Wolf
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Google; US access only
• Pravda o "Sīonskikh protokolakhʹ", Literaturnyĭ Podlog (Graves's "Truth About the Protocols" translated into Russian with an added preface; Paris: Presse Franco-Russe, 1922), by Philip P. Graves, contrib. by P. N. Mili︠u︡kov
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Voice of Jerusalem (London: W. Heinemann, 1920), by Israel Zangwill
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Voice of Jerusalem (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Israel Zangwill
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Henry Ford Must Choose (ca. 1941), by Friends of Democracy (U.S.) (PDF at hood.edu)
• Mr. Smith, Meet Mr. Cohen... (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, c1940), by James Waterman Wise and Lee J. Levinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Father Coughlin: His "Facts" and Arguments (1939), by General Jewish Council (U.S.)
  • PDF at ajcarchives.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Popes Condemn Anti-Semitism (New York: Council Against Intolerance in America, ca. 1939), by Maurice S. Sheehy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Nazis Against the World: The Counter-Boycott is the Only Defensive Weapon Against Hitlerism's World-Threat to Civilization (New York: Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi Leage to Champion Human Rights, 1934), ed. by Samuel Untermyer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Authoritarian Personality (c1950), by Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford (PDF files at ajcarchives.org)
• Statement by Henry Ford Regarding Charges Against Jews, Made in His Publications, the Dearborn Independent, and a Series of Pamphlets Entitled "The International Jew," Together With an Explanatory Statement by Louis Marshall, President of the American Jewish Committee, and His Reply to Mr. Ford (1927), by Henry Ford and Louis Marshall (PDF at ajcarchives.org)
• International, Commercial and Financial Gambling in "Options and Futures" (Marchés à Terme): The Economic Ruin of the World (London: P. S. King and Son, 1906), by Charles William Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Truth About "The Protocols": A Literary Forgery (pamphlet reprinting articles from the Times of London, 1921), by Philip P. Graves
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Zionism and Anti-Semitism (New York: Fox, Duffield and Co., 1905), by Max Simon Nordau and Gustav Gottheil (Gutenberg text)
• Swastika: The Nazi Terror (New York: H. Smith and R. Haas, 1933), by James Waterman Wise
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Jew and American Ideals (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1921), by John Spargo
  • Gutenberg text and page images
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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