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Berkowitz investigates a dimension of anti-Semitism that was instrumental in the making of the Holocaust: the association of Jews with criminality. He traces the myths and realities about Jewish criminality from the 18th century to the Weimar Republic and on into the Nazi assault upon the Jews

This volume engages diverse topics such as art, music, and radio broadcasting in the development of modern Jewish nationalism by leading scholars in their respective fields. It contains richly detailed studies that challenge existing historiography--from personal struggles with nationalism, to the lesser-known origins of the Balfour Declaration, from boisterous demonstrations on the streets of pre-World War I Galicia, to skirmishes between Jews in present-day Jerusalem. It examines how nationalism has worked in theory and practice for Jews and at times been fiercely resisted. Beginning with the memory of Theodor Herzl and his cohort at the London Zionist Congress of 1900, this book revisits the wider scene of Zionism's emergence, as we explore the imagination of, and the attempted national mobilization of Jewry throughout the twentieth century. Contributors include: Delphine Bechtel; Nachman Ben-Yehuda; Michael Berkowitz; Inka Bertz; Philip Bohlman; John M. Efron; Richard A. Freund; Francois Guesnet; Michael Löwy; Barbara Mann; Derek Penslar; James Renton; Aviel Roshwald; Joshua Shanes

For nearly a century scholars have recognized nationalism as a dominant force in the modern world. Among the early notable analyses was that of Carlton J.H. Hayes, who begins by asserting: “The most significant emotional factor in public life today is nationalism. Of the current age it is the mark at once intense and universal” (Hayes 1933, 1). Is it dormant anywhere in the second decade of the twenty-first century? There is, understandably, a glut of theoretical, comparative, and synthetic treatments of nationalism from a number of disciplines. Furthermore, the historiography on nationalism for nearly every conceivable ethnic-national entity, past and present, and their subgroups and transformations is mind-boggling. The brief bibliographies following each of the chapters in The Call of the Homeland, alone, as a guide to this plethora of material, would justify its purchase for each and every library. (There will be further remarks concerning the cost of this book, as it pertains to its potential audience and impact.)