Bibliography for the Study of Antisemitism, Then and Now

by Dr. Eugene Fisher Distinguished Professor of Theology, Saint Leo University

Articles and Commentaries

• The apartheid contention and calls for a boycott

• An Abandoned Weapon in the Fight Against Hate Speech

• Zio

• Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight Against Antisemitism

• In 1928 sole US case of blood libel was incited in NY by a lost 4 year old girl

• Anti-Semitism in the US today is a variation on an old theme

• Translate Hate

• Church of England report admits Christian anti-Semitism helped lead to Holocaust

• President Trump’s Executive Order on Anti-Semitism

• 10 Simple Rules for Thinking About Anti-Semitism in America

• Social Justice in Detroit

• Statements on Antisemitic Violence: 2019

• U.S. Bishops’ President Calls for Building the “Beloved Community,” Inspired by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Example

• New Clothing, Old Hatred: Changes and Transformations of Antisemitism

• The return of Antisemitic Art

• About a Painting of Simon of Trent

• A New Documentary Examines the "Four Mutations" of Modern Antisemitism

• Since we’re debating labels, stop calling it anti-Semitism. It’s Jew hatred.

• Almog, Shmuel, Antisemitism through the Ages. Oxford : Pergamon Press, 1988.

• Alon Goshen Gottstein, Luther the Antisemite: A Contemporary Jewish Perspective. Fortress Press, 2017

• America Magazine, July 14, 2018.

• Antisemitism Studies, Journal, Indiana University Press

• The return of Antisemitic Art

• Bemporad, Elissa, Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets. Oxford University Press, 2019. 252pp.

• Berenson, Edward, The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town, W.W. Norton & Co., 2019 271 pp.

• Bibliowicz, Abel, Jewish-Christian Relations: The First Centuries. Biblio Publications, 2016.

• Brykczynski, Paul, Primed for Violence: Murder, Antisemitism, and Democratic Politics in Interwar Poland . University of Illinois Press, 2017.

• Chazan, Robert, From Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism Ancient and Medieval Christian Constructions of Jewish History. Cambridge University Press, 2017.

• Churchwell, Sarah, Behold America : The Entangled History of “ America First” and the “American Dream.” New York: Basic Books, 2018. 348 pp.

• Confino, Alon, A World without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide.

• New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014.

• Dawidowicz, Lucy S., The War against the Jews, 1933-1945. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975.

• Drake:, Susanna, Slandering the Jew: Sexuality and Difference in Early Christian Texts.

• University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2013. 184 pp.

• Flannery, Edward M., The Anguish of the Jews, rev. ed., New York : Paulist Stimulus, 1985

• Gager, John, The Origins of Anti-Semitism: Attitudes toward Judaism in Pagan and Late Antiquity. New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.

• Phyllis Goldstein, A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism ( Brookline , MA : Facing History and Ourselves, 2012).

• Goshen-Gottstein, Luther the Anti-Semite: A Contemporary Jewish Perspective. Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2018), softcover, xvi + 98 pp.

• Faierstein, Morris M, trans. and ed., Yudisher Theriak: An Early Modern Yiddish Defense of Judaism ( Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2016), hardcover, x + 180 pp.

• Hanebrink, Paul, A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism, Belknap Press/ Harvard University Press, 2018. 353 pp.

• Hay, Malcolm, The Roots of Christian Anti-Semitism. New York : Freedom Library Press, 1981.

• Heller, Anne C., Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times. Carson, CA.: New Harvest Press, 2016.

• Heschel, Susannah, “Anti-Judaism in Christian Feminist Theology,” Tikkun 5/3 (1990) 25-29.

• Holub, Robert C., Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism ( Princeton , NJ : Princeton University Press, 2016), hardback, xx + 271 pp.

• Hsia, R. Po-chia, Trent 1475: Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial. Yale University Press, 1992, 2nd Edition 2020. 173 pp.

• Idinopulos, Thomas A., A Betrayal of Spirit: Jew Hatred, the Holocaust and Christianity. Aurora , CO , Davies Group, 2007.

• Isaac, Jules, Has Anti-Semitism Roots in Christianity? (New York: National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1961).

• _________, The Teaching of Contempt. New York : Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1964.

• _________, Jesus and Israel . New York : Holt, Rinhart, Winston, 1971.

• Jarausch, Konrad H., Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the Twentieth Century. Princeton University Press, 2018. 378pp.

• Junginger, Horst, The Scientification of the “Jewish Question” in Nazi Germany.( Leiden , Boston : Brill, 2017), 456pp.

• Langmuir, Gavin, Toward a Definition of Antisemitism. Berkely University of California Press, 1990.

• Lipstadt, Deborah, Antisemitism: Here and Now. New York : Schocken Books, 2019. 288 pp.

• Lowe, David. Touched With Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle against Racial and Religious Discrimination. Potomac Books. 2019.

• Krewson, William J., Jerome and the Jews: Innovative Supersessionism. Eugene , OR : Wipf and Stock, 2017.

• King, Richard H., Arendt and America . University of Chicago Press, 2016.

• Lipton, Sarah, Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography. Metropolitan, 2014.

• Longerich, Peter, Hitler. Oxford University Press. 2019. 317 pages.

• Modras, Ronald, “Christian Antisemitism and Auschwitz : Some Reflections on Responsibility,” New Theology Review 10/3, 1997, 58-72

• Moffit, Evan, First the Jews: Combating the World's Longest Running Hate Campaign, Nashville : Abingdon Press, 2019. 220 pp.

• Okrent, Daniel, The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law that Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians and Other European Immigrant Out of America . 2019. New York : Scribner. 497 pp.

• Parkes, James, Antisemitism. Chicago : Quadrangle Books, 1964.

• Poliakov, Leon, The History of Anti-Semitism. New York : Schocken, 1981.

• Pontifical Commission Iustitia et Pax, “The Church and Racism,” Origins 18/37 (February 23, 1989) 614-26.

• Rose, E.M., The Murder of William of Norwich : The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe . Oxford University Press. 2017. Paperback. 394 pages.

• Rosenfeld, Alvin H. ed., Deciphering the New Antisemitism, Indiana University Press. 560 pages. 2016.

• Rosenfeld, Alvin H., editor, Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism: The Dynamics of Delegitimization, Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2019. 494 pages.

• Sonabend, Daniel, We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle for Post-war Britain . Verso Books, 2019. 384 pp.

• Stowe, Kenneth, Jewish Dogs, an Image and Its Interpreters: Continuity in the Jewish-Catholic Encounter. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006.

• Taylor, Cory, How Hitler Was Made: Germany and the Rise of the Perfect Nazi. Amherst , NY : Prometheus Books, 2018. 274 pp.

• Teter, Magda. Blood Libel: On The Trail of an Antisemitic Myth. Harvard University Press. 2020. 560 pp.

• Tobias, Norman C., Jewish Conscience of the Church: Jules Isaac and the Second Vatican Council. Preface by Gregory Baum. Cham , Switzerland : Palgrave McMillan, 2017.

• Trachtenberg, Joshua, The Devil and the Jews: The Medieval Conception of the Jew and its Relation to Modern Anti-Semitism. New York : Meridian , 1961.

• von Kellenbach, Katherina, Anti-Judaism in Feminist Christian Writings. Atlanta : Scholars Press, 1994.

• Weiss, Bari , How to Fight Anti-Semitism. New York : Crown Publishing, Penguin Random House, 2019. 224 pp.

• Yemeni, Ben-Dror, Industry of Lies: Media, Academia, and the Israeli-Arab Conflict. New York : ISGAP, 2017. 354 pages.

• Zipperstein, Steven, Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History. New York : Liveright Publishing/Tony Rinaldo, 2018.