I do not approve of antisemitism; it is a narrow, one-sided view,
still I have sought to account for it. It] has flourished in all
countries and in all ages, before and after the Christian era, at
Alexandria, Rome, and Antiachia, in Arabia, and in Persia, in
mediaeval and modern Europe, in a word, in all parts of the world
wherever there are or have been Jews, -such an opinion, it seemed
to me, could not spring from a mere whim or fancy, but must be the
effect of deep and serious causes. -from the Preface Bernard Lazare
was a Paris literary critic when his imagination was fired by the
notorious case of French Jewish army officer Captain Alfred
Dreyfus, tried as a traitor on trumped-up charges, a startling
example of French anti-semitism. But Lazare, who became Dreyfus's
great public champion, was no stranger to this particular form of
bigotry-that same year, 1894, he published what is considered his
finest work, Anti-Semitism: Its History and Causes. In this
sweeping history of prejudice and hatred, Lazare explores
anti-semitism from antiquity through the modern era, with an
emphasis on anti-Judaic literature and law, and how nationalism and
religious identity fueled hatred of Jews. An extraordinary history
of entrenched prejudices, this a must-read for those seeking an
understanding of anti-semitism and the root causes of its
horrendous legacy of the 20th century. French writer and anarchist
LAZARE MARCUS MANASSE BERNARD (1865-1903), aka Bernard Lazare, is
also the author of Anti-Semitism and Revolution (1899).
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