Jonathan Judaken is the Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question: Anti-antisemitism and the Politics of the French Intellectual (2006) and a coeditor of Situating Existentialism: Key Texts in Context (2012) and The Albert Memmi Reader (2020), among other books.

Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism is significant scholarship...Judaken’s book deserves our attention because his review of some of the 20th century’s most significant thinkers and their reflections on the hatred of Jews is once again brought to the forefront by tragic urgency.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Critical Theory and Judeophobia1. Jean-Paul Sartre’s Existentialist Antiracism2. The Frankfurt School and the Anti- Semitic Question3. Hannah Arendt, Anti- Semitism, and Her “Story” of History4. The Sociology of Modern Anti-Semitism from Talcott Parsons to Zygmunt Bauman5. Jean-François Lyotard, Postmodernism, and “the jews”6. Léon Poliakov, the Origins of Holocaust Studies, and the Long History of Judeophobia7. George Mosse on Modernity, Culture, and “the Jew”8. Critical Theory and Post-Holocaust JudeophobiaNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

Jonathan Judaken is the Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question: Anti-antisemitism and the Politics of the French Intellectual (2006) and a coeditor of Situating Existentialism: Key Texts in Context (2012) and The Albert Memmi Reader (2020), among other books.

Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism is significant scholarship...Judaken’s book deserves our attention because his review of some of the 20th century’s most significant thinkers and their reflections on the hatred of Jews is once again brought to the forefront by tragic urgency.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Critical Theory and Judeophobia1. Jean-Paul Sartre’s Existentialist Antiracism2. The Frankfurt School and the Anti- Semitic Question3. Hannah Arendt, Anti- Semitism, and Her “Story” of History4. The Sociology of Modern Anti-Semitism from Talcott Parsons to Zygmunt Bauman5. Jean-François Lyotard, Postmodernism, and “the jews”6. Léon Poliakov, the Origins of Holocaust Studies, and the Long History of Judeophobia7. George Mosse on Modernity, Culture, and “the Jew”8. Critical Theory and Post-Holocaust JudeophobiaNotesSelect BibliographyIndex