Antisemitism Before the Holocaust: Re-Evaluating Antisemitic Exceptionalism in Germany and the United States, 1880-1945

This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sustained comparison of the anti-Jewish environments in both countries from the 1880s to the end of the Second World War.

Richard E. Frankel is Professor of Modern German History at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His interests include antisemitism, nationalism, and political culture. Frankel’s other books include Bismarck’s Shadow: The Cult of Leadership and the Transformation of the German Right, 1898-1945 (2005) and States of Exclusion: A New Wave of Fascism (2019).