Masterful.
An indispensable warning for our own time.
--Samuel MoynMagisterial.
Covers this dark history with insight and skill.
A major intervention into our understanding of 20th-century Europe and the lessons we ought to take away from its history.
--The Nation For much of the last century, Europe was haunted by a threat of its own imagining: Judeo-Bolshevism.
The belief that Communism was a Jewish plot to destroy the nations of Europe took hold during the Russian Revolution and quickly spread.
During World War II, fears of a Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy were fanned by the fascists and sparked a genocide.
But the myth did not die with the end of Nazi Germany.
A Specter Haunting Europe shows that this paranoid fantasy persists today in the toxic politics of revitalized right-wing nationalism.
It is both salutary and depressing to be reminded of how enduring the trope of an exploitative global Jewish conspiracy against pure, humble, and selfless nationalists really is.
A century after the end of the first world war, we have, it seems, learned very little.
--Mark Mazower, Financial TimesFrom the start, the fantasy held that an alien element--the Jews--aimed to subvert the cultural values and national identities of Western societies.
The writers, politicians, and shills whose poisonous ideas he exhumes have many contemporary admirers.
--Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs.
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Belknap Press A specter haunting europe: the myth of judeo-bolshevism, paperback/paul hanebrink
