Of Jews and Bolsheviks

The 20th century saw the rise of a new blood libel, which led to the Holocaust and remains with us to this day.

Paul A. Hanebrink’s book, A Specter Haunting Europe, serves as a valuable addition to the corpus of scholarship on the long history of antisemitism

Paul A. Hanebrink’s book, A Specter Haunting Europe, serves as a valuable addition to the corpus of scholarship on the long history of antisemitism

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ByTIBOR KRAUSZ

JUNE 13, 2019 17:53

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