The antisemitism of liberals.(The Resurgence of Antisemitism: Jews, Israel, and Liberal Opinion)(Book review)

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The Resurgence of Antisemitism: Jews, Israel, and Liberal Opinion. By Bernard Harrison. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. xv, 218 pp.

According to the famous eleventh edition of the cyclopedia Britannica (1910) "Antisemitism is a passing phase in the history of culture." Since that sanguine declaration, antisemitism has had several very good rolls of the dice, culminating in the destruction of European Jewry. So horrendous was this event that a Jesuit priest once ...

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