A Concise History of American Antisemitism

Robert Michael

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2005
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780742574670
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: History Reference
• Index: History

A Concise History of American Antisemitism shows how Christianity's negative views of Jews pervaded American history from colonial times to the present. The book describes the European background to American anti-Semitism, then divides American history into time periods, and examines the anti-Semitic ideas, personalities, and literature in each period. It also demonstrates that anti-Semitism led to certain behaviors in some United States officials that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. Clear and forceful, A Concise History of American Antisemitism is an important work for undergraduate course use and for the general public interested in the roots of the current rash of anti-Semitism.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction: The United States Is above All Things a Christian Nation
• Chapter One - “We Never Do Evil So Completely and Cheerfully as When We Do It Out of Religious Conviction”: European Antisemitism before the Founding of America
• Chapter Two - “The Preservation of Christianity Is One of the Great and Leading Ends of Government”: The Jews in the American Colonies and Early State History
• Chapter Three - “Chock Full of Lies, Wickedness, and Blasphemy”: American Attitudes toward Jews before the Civil War
• Chapter Four - “A People Whose Feet Run to Evil”: American Antisemitism from the Civil War through World War I
• Chapter Five - “The Jews Reap More and More Dislike as They Better Themselves”: American Responses to Jews during the Interwar Period
• Chapter Six - “The Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews”: America, the Jews, and the Holocaust from 1938 to 1945
• Chapter Seven - “The Jews Are Dangerous People”: A New Beginning? America and the Jews since 1945
• Index
• About the Author