Anti-semitism in times of crisis / edited by Sander L. Gilman and Steven T. Katz.

"This volume grew out of a conference held at Cornell University in 1986 under the auspices of the Program in Jewish Studies and the Western Societies Program"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The origins of anti-semitism : ancient evidence and modern interpretations / Nicholas de Lange -- The lamb and the scapegoat : the dehumanization of the Jews in medieval propaganda imagery / Moshe Lazar -- Traditional prejudice and religious reform : the theological and historical foundations of Luther's anti-Judaism / Jeremy Cohen -- Responses to anti-semitism in Midrashic literature / Pinchas Hacohen Peli -- Jews as magicians in reformation Germany / R. Po-chia Hsia -- Stepping out : the writing of difference in Rahel Varnhagen's letters / Liliane Weissberg -- Dualistic thinking and the rise of ontological antisemitism in nineteenth-century Germany : from Schiller's Franz Moor to Wilhelm Raabe's Moses Freudenstein / Walter H. Sokel.

The theme of anti-semitism in the work of Austrian Jews / Ruth Kluger -- The modern character of nineteenth-century Russian antisemitism / Alexander Orbach -- Antisemitism in crisis times in the United States : the 1920s and 1930s / Leonard Dinnerstein -- 1918 and after : the role of racial antisemitism in the Nazi analysis of the Weimar Republic / Steven T. Katz -- Anti-semitism and the killing of Latvia's Jews / Andrew Ezergailis -- The rhetoric of anti-semitism in postwar American literature / Guy Stern -- Jewish writers in contemporary Germany : the dead author speaks / Sander L. Gilman -- The Arab world discovers anti-semitism / Bernard Lewis -- The Jews of Iran : between the Shah and Khomeini / David Menashri -- German reunification and the Jews / Sander L. Gilman.