Antisemitism in History

Histories and eyewitness accounts of how hatred of Jews shaped Jewish life, especially in Eastern Europe during the Second World War. For students, researchers and general readers.

Pondering the Past surveys Lithuanian Jewry from its beginnings to its destruction, including the part many Lithuanians played. Mendel Balberyszski's Stronger than Iron is an eyewitness account of the two Vilna ghettos. In In the Shadow of the Red Banner, Yitzchak Arad tells of the more than 500,000 Jews who fought in the Soviet army.

We Struggled for Life is a firsthand account of the Zionist underground in Hungary in 1944, and Peace: The Arabian Caricature traces anti-Jewish cartoons from medieval and Nazi images to the modern Arab press.