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This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sustained comparison of the anti-Jewish environments in both countries from the 1880s to the end of the Second World War.
List of contents
1. A Transnational Jewish Question: Exploring Antisemitism in the United States and Germany Through the Lens of Global History, 1880-1914 2. 'No Jews, Dogs, or Consumptives': Comparing Anti-Jewish Discrimination in Late-Nineteenth-Century Germany and the United States 3. An Exceptional Hatred? Re-Examining Antisemitism in Germany and the United States in a Time of War and Upheaval, 1914-1923 4. The Paranoid Style in Antisemitic Journalism: Comparing Coverage of the 'World Jewish Conspiracy' in the Völkischer Beobachter and the Dearborn Independent, 1920-1923 5. One Crisis Behind? Rethinking Antisemitic Exceptionalism in the United States and Germany 6. Klansmen in the Fatherland: A Transnational Episode in the History of Weimar Germany's Right-Wing Political Culture
About the author
Richard E. Frankel is Professor of Modern German History at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His interests include antisemitism, nationalism, and political culture. Frankel's other books include
Bismarck's Shadow: The Cult of Leadership and the Transformation of the German Right, 1898-1945 (2005) and
States of Exclusion: A New Wave of Fascism (2019).
Summary
This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sustained comparison of the anti-Jewish environments in both countries from the 1880s to the end of the Second World War.
