Antisemitism Before and Since the Holocaust

Anthony McElligott is founding Professor of History and Head of Department at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Jeffrey Herf is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland in College Park.

“This book, as the title suggests, is an analysis of antisemitism both before the Holocaust and after. … This book was an excellent analysis of this issue. While some would deny that the Holocaust happened, this could not be further from the truth. The Holocaust was one of the most poignant events of human history in religion. This book did a good job analyzing antisemitism for what it is: racism.” (Justin Dilliplane, Resolved for Christ, resolvedfc.blogspot.de, January, 2018)

• 1. Introduction.- I. Two Preliminary Observations.- 2. A Few Observations on Holocaust Denial and Antisemitism.- 3. Antisemitism and Holocaust Inversion.- II. Religion.- 4. An 'Indelible Stigma?' Christianity and Antisemitism.- 5. 'Every Sane Thinker Must be an Anti-Semite:' Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial in the Theology of Radical Catholic Traditionalists.- 6. Religion, Prejudice and Annihilation: The Case of Traditional Islamic Judeophobia and its Transformation into the Modern Islamist Antisemitism.- III. Historical and Contemporary Political Arenas.- 7. Jews, Engagement in the Nation-State and Political Antisemitism.- 8. Nazi Propaganda to the Arab World during World War II and the Holocaust and its After Effects.- 9. Iranian Anti-Antisemitism and the Holocaust.- 10. Antisemitism in Contemporary Germany.- 11. Antisemitism in Britain: Continuity and the Absence of a Resurgence?.- IV. Metaphor and Discourse.- 12. 'Stealing the Holocaust from the Jews?' - The Holocaust as a Metaphor in the Public Discourse.- 13. Soft Denial in Different Political and Social Areas on the Web.- V. Two Further Observations.- 14. Five Reflections on Holocaust Denial and the De-legitimation of Israel.- 15. Ex Malo Bono: Does this Latin Proverb Apply to Holocaust Denial? The Cunning of Reason.