The War Against the Jew
Published on 19. December 2023
412 pages
978-1-5040-9381-1 (ISBN)
Description
An A-to-Z reference guide to the major figures, concepts, and events factoring into antisemitic hatred and violence across history.
In The War Against the Jews, Dagobert D.Runes presents a scholarly account of antisemitism across centuries of war, slander, atrocities, and bigotry as it has manifested around the world. Concise entries cover everything from major figures of the Catholic Church who endorsed hate to code names for little-known Nazi plans.
Here, readers can learn how Russian emperor Alexander I expelled Jews from Russian towns in the nineteenth century, a fifteenth-century Franciscan friar travelled through Europe spreading fear of Jews as baby killers, the ominous prayer recited by Protestant and Catholic bishops on Hitler's fiftieth birthday, and much more.More details
Person
Dagobert D. Runes was born in Zastavna, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary (now in Ukraine), and received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Viennain 1924. In 1926 he emigrated to the United States, where he became editor of the
Modern Thinker and later
Current Digest. From 1931 to 1934 he was director of the Institute for Advanced Education in New York City, and in 1941 he founded the Philosophical Library, a spiritual organization and publishing house.
Runes published an English translation of Karl Marx's On the Jewish Question under the title A World Without Jews, featuring an introduction that was clearly antagonistic to extreme Marxism and "its materialism," yet he did not entirely negate Marxist theory. He also edited several works presenting the ideas and history of philosophy to a general audience, including his Dictionary of Philosophy.
Runes published an English translation of Karl Marx's On the Jewish Question under the title A World Without Jews, featuring an introduction that was clearly antagonistic to extreme Marxism and "its materialism," yet he did not entirely negate Marxist theory. He also edited several works presenting the ideas and history of philosophy to a general audience, including his Dictionary of Philosophy.
