The German Jew

Includes a short introduction, "German Jews in the Middle Ages" (pp. 17-43), describing the persecution of Jews in Germany, the attitude of the Catholic Church, and later of Protestantism, and the life of the Jews in the ghettos. The struggle for emancipation from social and political discrimination after the French Revolution is described as part of a gradual process of synthesis between German and Jewish culture. The chapter entitled "Nationalism and Anti-Semitism in the New German Empire" (pp. 122-135) shows the rise of reaction and of political antisemitism. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)