A Concise History of American Antisemitism

Abstract

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Introduction: United States Is Above All Things a Christian Nation Chapter 4 Never Do Evil So Completely and Cheerfully as When We Do It Out of Religious Conviction: European Antisemitism before the Founding of America Chapter 5 Preservation of Christianity Is One of the Great and Leading Ends of Government: The Jews in the American Colonies and Early State History Chapter 6 Chock Full of Lies, Wickedness, and Blasphemy: American Attitudes toward Jews before the Civil War Chapter 7 People Whose Feet Run to Evil: American Antisemitism from the Civil War to the Turn of the Century Chapter 8 Jews Reap More and More Dislike as They Better Themselves: American Responses to Jews from World War One to the Start of World War Two Chapter 9 Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews: America, the Jews, and the Holocaust from 1938 to 1945 Chapter 10 Dangerous People: A New Beginning? America and the Jews since 1945 Chapter 11 Appendix: Postwar Film