March 2025
CIE has compiled the following list of books, articles and videos, including some available on our website, to guide understanding of antisemitism, particularly in connection with Zionism and Israel.
Books
Ackerman, Nathan W., and Marie Jahoda. Anti-Semitism and Emotional Disorder: Psychoanalytic Interpretation. New York: Harper, 1950.
Almog, Shmuel, ed. Antisemitism Through the Ages. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1988.
Almog S. Nationalism & Antisemitism in Modern Europe 1815-1945. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1990.
Arendt, Hannah. Origins of Totalitarianism. New York: Meridian, 1958.
Becker, Matthias. Antisemitism in Reader Comments: Analogies for Reckoning With the Past. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Becker, Matthias J., Hagen Troschke, Matthew Bolton and Alexis Chapelan, eds. Decoding Antisemitism: A Guide to Identifying Antisemitism Online. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Beller, Steven. Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Ben-Itto, Hadassa. The Lie That Wouldn’t Die: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Portland: Mitchell Vallentine & Co., 2005.
Berdiaev, Nikolai. Christianity and Anti-Semitism. New York: Philosophical Library, 1954.
Berger, David, ed. History and Hate: The Dimensions of Anti-Semitism. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1997.
Bulkin, Elly, Minnie Bruce Pratt and Barbara Smith. Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism. Brooklyn, NY: Long Haul Press, 1984.
Carmichael, Joel. The Satanizing of the Jews: Origin and Development of Mystical Anti-Semitism. New York: Fromm, 1993.
Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. Anti-semitism: A History. Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2002.
Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. The Paradox of Anti-semitism. London: Continuum, 2006.
Curtis, Michael, ed. Antisemitism in the Contemporary World. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1986.
Davies, Alan T. Anti-Semitism and the Christian Mind: The Crisis of Conscience After Auschwitz. New York: Herder and Herder, 1969.
Diker, Dan. BDS Unmasked: Radical Roots, Extremist Ends. Jerusalem: JCPA, 2016.
Dinnerstein, Leonard. Antisemitism in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Falk, Avner. Anti-semitism: A History and Psychoanalysis of Contemporary Hatred. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008.
Fatah, Tarek. The Jew Is Not My Enemy: Unveiling the Myths That Fuel Muslim Anti-Semitism. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2010.
Forster, Arnold, and Benjamin R. Epstein. The New Anti-Semitism. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.
Forster, Arnold. Anti-Semitism in the United States in 1947. New York, 1948.
Gerber, David A. Anti-Semitism in American History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.
Gilman, Sander, and Steven Katz, eds. Anti-Semitism in Times of Crisis. New York: New York University Press, 1991.
Grosser, Paul E., Edwin G. Halperin and Paul E. Grosser. Anti-Semitism, Causes and Effects: An Analysis and Chronology of 1900 Years of Anti-Semitic Attitudes and Practices. New York: Philosophical Library, 1983.
Harrison, Bernard. The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism: Jews, Israel, and Liberal Opinion. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
Hertzberg, Arthur. Anti-Semitism and Jewish Uniqueness: Ancient and Contemporary. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University, 1975.
Hirsch, Herbert, and Jack D. Spiro. Persistent Prejudice: Perspectives on Anti-Semitism. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University Press, 1988.
Horn, Dara. People Love Dead Jews: Reports From a Haunted Present. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2021.
Isaac, Jules. The Teaching of Contempt: Christian Roots of Anti-Semitism. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.
Israeli, Raphael. Muslim Anti-Semitism in Christian Europe: Elemental and Residual Anti-semitism. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2009.
Katz, Steven T. The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Kohen, Ari, and Gerald Steinacher, eds. Antisemitism on the Rise: The 1930s and Today. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021.
Kertzer, David I. Old Demons, New Debates: Anti-Semitism in the West. Teaneck, NJ: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 2005.
Kiewe, Amos. The Rhetoric of Antisemitism: From the Origins of Christianity and Islam to the Present. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021.
Jacobs, Steven. Antisemitism: Exploring the Issues. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2020.
Kertzer, David. The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican’s Role in Modern Anti-Semitism. New York: Knopf, 2001.
Langmuir, Gavin. History, Religion, and Antisemitism. Oakland: University of California Press, 1990.
Leech, Kenneth. The Bible, Racism and Anti-Semitism. London: Race, Pluralism and Community Group, 1985.
Levin, Jack. The Violence of Hate: Confronting Racism, Anti-Semitism, and Other Forms of Bigotry. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2002.
Lappin, Shalom. The New Antisemitism: The Resurgence of an Ancient Hatred in the Modern World. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2024.
Levinger, Lee J. Anti-Semitism in the United States: Its History and Causes. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972.
Lewis, Bernard. Semites and Anti-Semites: An Inquiry Into Conflict and Prejudice. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999.
Mamet, David. The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred and the Jews. New York: Schocken Books, 2006.
Milfull, John. Why Germany? National Socialist Anti-semitism and the European Context. Providence: Berg, 1993.
Nettler, Ronald L., and Sayyid Quṭb. Past Trials and Present Tribulations: A Muslim Fundamentalist’s View of the Jews. Oxford: Published for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, by Pergamon Press, 1987.
Nirenstein, Fiamma. Terror: The New Anti-semitism and the War Against the West. Hanover, NH: Smith and Kraus, 2005.
Parkes, James. The Jew and His Neighbour: A Study of the Causes of Anti-Semitism. London: Published for the International Student Service by the Student Christian Movement Press, 1930.
Patterson, David. Judaism, Antisemitism, and Holocaust: Making the Connections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Pilzer, Jay. Anti-Semitism & Jewish Nationalism. Virginia Beach: Donning, 1981.
Poliakov, Léon. The History of Anti-semitism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
Pulzer, Peter. The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria. London: Peter Halban, 1988.
Laqueur, Walter. The Changing Face of Antisemitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Levy, Richard Simon. Antisemitism: A History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Maizels, Linda. What Is Antisemitism? A Contemporary Introduction. Abingdon Oxon: Routledge, 2023.
Michnik, Adam, and Agnieszka Marczyk. Against Anti-Semitism: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Polish Writings. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Renton, Dave. Labour’s Antisemitism Crisis: What the Left Got Wrong and How to Learn From It. Abingdon Oxon: Routledge, 2022.
Rosenbaum, Ron. Those Who Forget the Past: The Question of Anti-Semitism. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004.
Rosenfeld, Alvin. Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism: The Dynamics of Delegitimization. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019.
Rosenfeld, Alvin H., ed. Contending With Antisemitism in a Rapidly Changing Political Climate. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021.
Schäfer, Peter. Judeophobia: Attitudes Toward the Jews in the Ancient World. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Sharan, Shlomo. Anti-Zionism & Anti-Semitism. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2010.
Simmel, Ernst. Anti-semitism, a Social Disease. New York: International Universities Press, 1946.
Arnold, Sina, and Jacob Blumenfeld. From Occupation to Occupy: Antisemitism and the Contemporary American Left. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022.
Soyer, Francois. Medieval Antisemitism. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2019.
Stern, Frank. The Whitewashing of the Yellow Badge: Antisemitism and Philosemitism in Postwar Germany. Oxford: Published for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, by Pergamon Press, 1992.
Taft, Jessica, and Andrew Markus. Antisemitism. Caulfield East: Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, 2011.
Ury, Scott, and Gai Miron, eds. Antisemitism and the Politics of History. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2024.
Weisman, Jonathan. Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018.
Wieviorka, Michel, and Philippe Bataille. The Lure of Anti-Semitism: Hatred of Jews in Present-Day France. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
Wistrich, Robert. A Lethal Obsession: Antisemitism From Antiquity to the Global Jihad. New York: Random House, 2010.
Wistrich, Robert. Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism in the Contemporary World. New York: Schocken, 1994.
Yadlin, Rivka. An Arrogant Oppressive Spirit: Anti-Zionism as Anti-Judaism in Egypt. Oxford: Published for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, by Pergamon Press, 1989.
Yaseen, Leonard C. The Jesus Connection: To Triumph Over Anti-Semitism. New York: Crossroad, 1985.
Yeʼor, Bat. Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002.
Zisenwine, David W. Anti-Semitism in Europe: Sources of the Holocaust. New York: Behrman House, 1976.
Articles and Videos
Abramson, Scott, “Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism, Then and Now,” Center for Israel Education, May 31, 2024.
Abramson, Scott, “Gen Z, Infected With Antisemitism, Is Spreading the Very Disease It’s Committed to Eradicating, Racism,” originally appeared in Newsweek, April 8, 2024.
Scott Abramson, “Islamophobia and Antisemitism: A False Equivalence,” originally published in Fathom Journal, November 2024.
Alpert, Michael, “Spain and the Jews in the Second World War,” Jewish Historical Studies, 42 (2009): 201-10.
Arieti, James A., “Magical Thinking in Medieval Anti-Semitism: Usury and the Blood Libel,” Mediterranean Studies 24, No. 2 (2016): 193-218.
Ben-Moshe, Danny, “The New Anti-Semitism in Europe: The Islamic Dimension of, and Jewish Beglonging in, the EU,” in Religious Citizenships and Islamophobia, Virginie Andre and Douglas Pratt (eds.), Routledge, 2016.
Bergen, Doris L., “Catholics, Protestants, and Christian Antisemitism in Nazi Germany,” Central European History 27, No. 03 (1994): 329.
Bergman, Shlomo. “Some Methodological Errors in the Study of Antisemitism.” Jewish Social Studies 5, No. 1 (January 1943): 43-60.
Brustein, William I., and Ryan D. King, “Anti-Semitism in Europe Before the Holocaust,” International Political Science Review/Revue Internationale de Science Politique 25, No. 1 (2004): 35-53.
Brustein, William, and Ryan D. King, “Anti-Semitism as a Response to Perceived Jewish Power: The Cases of Bulgaria and Romania Before the Holocaust,” Social Forces 83, No. 2 (December 2004): 691-708.
Byrnes, Robert F., “Antisemitism in France Before the Dreyfus Affair,” Jewish Social Studies 11, No. 1 (January 1949): 49-68.
Cahnman, Werner J., “Socio-Economic Causes of Antisemitism,” Social Problems 5, No. 1 (1957): 21-29.
Calvo, Michael A., “The Holy See and Israel: The Historic Fight Against the Jews and Their State,” Jewish Political Studies Review 31, No. 3/4 (2021): 29-37.
Center for Israel Education, “Hamas Sources Expressing Hatred for Zionism, Israel and the Jews,” 2024.
Chanes, Jerome, “Anti-Semitism,” The American Jewish Year Book 105 (2005): 158-186.
Cohen, Ben, “The Persistence of Anti-Semitism on the British Left,” Jewish Political Studies Review 16, No. 3/4 (2004): 157-169.
Davis, R.W., “Disraeli, the Rothschilds, and Anti-Semitism,” Jewish History 10, No. 2 (1996): 9-19.
Djupe, Paul A., and Anand E. Sokhey, “The Mobilization of Elite Opinion: Rabbi Perceptions of and Responses to Anti-Semitism,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 42, No. 3 (September 2003): 443-453.
Dulfano, Mauricio J., “Antisemitism in Argentina: Patterns of Jewish Adaptation,” Jewish Social Studies 31, No. 2 (April 1969): 122-144.
Feldman, Noah, “The New Antisemitism,” Time Magazine, February 27, 2024.
Feingold, Henry L., “Finding a Conceptual Framework for the Study of American Antisemitism,” Jewish Social Studies 47, No. 3/4 (1985): 313-326.
Gelber, Mark, “What Is Literary Antisemitism?” Jewish Social Studies 47, No. 1 (1985): 1-20.
Gerstenfeld, Manfred, “The Deep Roots of Anti-Semitism in European Society,” Jewish Political Studies Review 17, No. 1/2 (2005): 3-46.
Gerstenfeld, Manfred, “Anti-Israelism and Anti-Semitism: Common Characteristics and Motifs,” Jewish Political Studies Review 19, No. 1/2 (2007): 83-108.
Gibson, James L., and Marc Morjé Howard, “Russian Anti-Semitism and the Scapegoating of Jews,” British Journal of Political Science 37, No. 2 (2007): 193-223.
Goldman, Aaron, “The Resurgence of Antisemitism in Britain During World War II,” Jewish Social Studies 46, No. 1 (1984): 37-50.
Sacks, Karen Brodkin, “How Did Jews Become White Folks?” in Race, Steven Gregory and Roger Sanjek (eds.), New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University (1994), 78-99.
Halpern, Ben, “What Is Antisemitism?” Modern Judaism 1, No. 3 (1981): 251-262.
Hartmann, Dieter D., “Anti-Semitism and the Appeal of Nazism,” Political Psychology 5, No. 4 (December 1984): 635-642.
Heilbronner, O., “From Antisemitic Peripheries to Antisemitic Centres: The Place of Antisemitism in Modern German History,” Journal of Contemporary History 35, No. 4 (October 2000): 559-576.
Herrod, Wendy J., “Teaching About Antisemitism,” Teaching Sociology 24, No. 2 (April 1996): 195-201.
Ichheiser, Gustav, “Fear of Violence and Fear of Fraud: With Some Remarks on the Social Psychology of Antisemitism,” Sociometry 7, No. 4 (November 1944): 376-383.
Ichheiser, Gustav, “The Jews and Antisemitism,” Sociometry 9, No. 1 (February 1946): 92-108.
Hoge, D.R., and J.W. Carroll, “Christian Beliefs, Nonreligious Factors, and Anti-Semitism,” Social Forces 53, No. 4 (June 1975): 581-594.
Jacobs, Andrew S., “A Jew’s Jew: Paul and the Early Christian Problem of Jewish Origins,” The Journal of Religion 86, No. 2 (2006): 258-286.
Jaspal, Rusi, “Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in Iran: The Effects of Identity, Threat, and Political Trust,” Contemporary Jewry 35, No. 3 (2015): 211-235.
Just, Thomas, “Germany’s Approach to Countering Antisemitism Since Reunification,” German Politics & Society 39, No. 3 (135) (2021): 1-22.
Kaplan, Edward H., and Charles A. Small, “Anti-Israel Sentiment Predicts Anti-Semitism in Europe,” The Journal of Conflict Resolution 50, No. 4 (2006): 548-561.
Kaplan, Marion, “Antisemitism in Postwar Germany,” New German Critique, No. 58 (1993): 97-108.
Kertzer, David, “Anti-Semitism and the Vatican: On Anti-Judaism, Anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust,” Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte 16, No. 1 (2003): 76-91.
Krämer, Gudrun, “Anti-Semitism in the Muslim World: A Critical Review,” Die Welt Des Islams 46, No. 3 (2006): 243-276.
Küntzel, Matthias, “National Socialism and Anti-Semitism in the Arab World,” Jewish Political Studies Review 17, No. 1/2 (2005): 99-118.
Lantos, Tom, “The Durban Debacle: An Insider’s View of the UN World Conference Against Racism,” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 26, No. 1 (2002): 31-52.
Legge, Jerome S., “An Economic Theory of Antisemitism? Exploring Attitudes in the New German State,” Political Research Quarterly 49, No. 3 (1996): 617-630.
Lewis, Bernard, “The Anti-Zionist Resolution,” Foreign Affairs 55, No. 1 (1976): 54-64.
Litvak, Meir, “The Islamization of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Case of Hamas,” Middle Eastern Studies 34, No. 1, 148-163.
Maccoby, Hyam, “Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism,” European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe 18, No. 2 (1985): 27-30.
Marendy, Peter M., “Anti-Semitism, Christianity, and the Catholic Church: Origins, Consequences, and Reponses,” Journal of Church and State 47, No. 2 (2005): 289-307.
Pinson, Koppel S., “Antisemitism in the Post-War World,” Jewish Social Studies 7, No. 2 (April 1945): 99-118.
Pollack, Eunice, “Black Antisemitism in America: Past and Present,” INSS Special Publication (2022).
Marcus, Kenneth, “Addressing Antisemitism Within and Through the Educational Systems in the United States,” INSS Special Publication (2022).
Rabinowitz, H.N., “Nativism, Bigotry and Anti-Semitism in the South,” American Jewish History 77, No. 3 (1988), 437-451.
Rosenfeld, Stephen S., “Dateline Washington: Anti-Semitism and U.S. Foreign Policy,” Foreign Policy, No. 47 (1982): 172-183.
Sacks, Rabbi Jonathan, “AntiSemitism, Hostility to or Prejudice Against Jewish People,” Hamizrachi, 2020-2021.
Sacks, Rabbi Jonathan, “A New AntiSemitism,” Hamizrachi (June 2002), 38-47.
Sacks, Rabbi Jonathan, “On the Mutation of Antisemitism/Animation,” video (2018), 5:05.
Sacks, Rabbi Jonathan, “The Mutating Virus of Antisemitism,” video (2018), 19:01.
Schilling, Christopher L., “Buddhist Anti-Semitism,” Jewish Political Studies Review 31, No. 3/4 (2021): 18-28.
Schroeter, Daniel J., “‘Islamic Anti-Semitism’ in Historical Discourse,” The American Historical Review 123, No. 4 (2018): 1172-1189.
Skerpan, Alfred A., “Aspects of Soviet Antisemitism,” The Antioch Review 12, No. 3 (1952): 287-328.
Shapira, Anita, “Anti-Semitism and Zionism,” Modern Judaism 15, No. 3 (1995): 215-232.
Shain, Milton, “A Changing Cast: Reflections on the History of Antisemitism in South Africa,” Jewish Historical Studies 55 (2023): 286-309.
Smith, Tom W., “The Religious Right and Anti-Semitism,” Review of Religious Research 40, No. 3 (1999): 244-258.
Smith, David N., “The Social Construction of Enemies: Jews and the Representation of Evil,” Sociological Theory 14, No. 3 (November 1996): 203-240.
Spoerl, Joseph S., “Parallels Between Nazi and Islamist Anti-Semitism,” Jewish Political Studies Review 31, No. 1/2 (2020): 210-244.
Spoerl, Joseph S., “Palestinians, Arabs, and the Holocaust,” Jewish Political Studies Review 26, No. 1/2 (2014): 14-47.
Stein, Kenneth, “Anti-Israeli Teaching on American Campuses: Origins, Extent and Remedies,” originally appeared in The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, November 2023.
Tausch, Arno, “Israel and the World of Catholicism(s),” Jewish Political Studies Review 28, No. 3/4 (2017): 7-17.
Twain, Mark, “Concerning the Jews,” Harper’s Magazine, March 1898.
Troy, Gil, “Our Failed Colleges: Time to Get Radical,” first appeared in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal, December 20, 2023.
Vinen, Richard C., “The End of an Ideology? Right-Wing Antisemitism in France, 1944-1970,” The Historical Journal 37, No. 02 (1994): 365.
Walzer, Michael, “ Zionism and Anti-Zionism: A Debate,” Dissent, University of Pennsylvania Press 66, No. 4 (Fall 2019): 84-100.
Ward, Charles D., “Anti-Semitism at College: Changes Since Vatican II,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12, No. 1 (March 1973): 85-88.
Wasserstein, Bernard, “Is Anti-Semitism Back?” The National Interest, No. 138 (2015): 63-72.
Woeste, Victoria S., “Insecure Equality: Louis Marshall, Henry Ford, and the Problem of Defamatory Antisemitism, 1920-1929,” The Journal of American History 91, No. 3 (2004): 877-905.
Wilson, Stephen, “The Antisemitic Riots of 1898 in France,” The Historical Journal 16, No. 04 (1973): 789.
Wistrich, Robert, “Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism,” Jewish Political Studies Review 16, No. 3/4 (2004): 27-31.
Wistrich, Robert S., “Anti-Semitism in Europe Since the Holocaust,” The American Jewish Year Book 93 (1993): 3-23.
Wright, Graham, Michelle Shain, Shahar Hecht and Leonard Saxe, “The Limits of Hostility: Students Report on Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Sentiment at Four US Universities,” Brandeis University, Steinhardt Social Research Institute(December 2017).
