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10 - Antisemitism in Interwar Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2025

By
Ulrich Wyrwa  and
Mark Roseman
Edited by
Mark Roseman  and
Dan Stone
Mark Roseman
Affiliation:
Indiana University
Dan Stone
Affiliation:
Royal Holloway, University of London
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Summary

This chapter explores the coherence, evolution, and national specificity of antisemitism. It introduces and contrasts the different categories of antisemitism scholars have deployed to provide an explanation for violence (political, racial, eliminatory, redemptive, and so on.)It explores questions of contrast and continuity, and particularly the role of the First World War and its aftermath, and the relevance for understanding Nazi violence against Jews of the unprecedented lethality of the anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Civil War.

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AntisemitismracismChristianitypogromshistoriographyFirst World War and its impactRussian RevolutionJudeo-Bolshevismimperial collapse and radical nationalismright-wing radicalismRussian civil warProtocols of the Elders of Zionworld economic crisis and its effectsNational Socialist antisemitism
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The Cambridge History of the Holocaust , pp. 198 - 219
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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