History of an Obsession: German Judeophobia and the Holocaust

Klaus Fischer charts the tortured history of German-Jewish relations over a millennium, from migration and ghettoization in the Middle Ages to enlightenment and emancipation in the eighteenth century to varieties of anti-Jewish prejudices in the Second Reich to the rise of pathological Judeophobia in the years 1918 to 1933. The aim of the book is to provide a historical explanation for this change in consciousness that began with a religious prejudice, moved to social and political discrimination, and ended up in annihilatory rage.

Author: Klaus P. Fischer
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: 04/01/2001
Pages: 544
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.83lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.11w x 1.59d
ISBN: 9780826413277

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 41

About the Author
Klaus Fischer is a cultural historian of Modern Europe with expertise in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Born in Germany in 1942, he arrived in the United States in 1959 as a 17-year-old emigrant. He attended Arizona State University and then the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his PhD in 1972. He is the author of Nazi Germany: A New History and The History of an Obsession: German Judeophobia and the Holocaust.