The History of Anti-Semitism
Hervé Ryssen
For the vast majority of non-Jews, the history of the Jewish people reads like an endless succession of undeserved tragedies. To explain this phenomenon, Jewish intellectuals have concocted various elaborate theories, inevitably concluding that the history of the Jews is an extraordinary mystery, or the fabulous destiny of a chosen people. But as this highly informative work by the French scholar Hervé Ryssen shows, the reality is in fact much simpler.