posted on 2014-11-05, 13:39authored byMichael Billig
In 1923, Fritz Bernstein, a German Jew in his thirties, completed a book about the psychological and sociological roots of anti-Semitism. At the time Bernstein was working as a coffee trader in the Netherlands. He specifically wanted to find a German publisher for his book, but he struggled to find one. As a businessman, he had few connections with the world of academics, and he found that most publishers of that time believed that the topic of anti-Semitism would not attract a wide German readership. The book was eventually published in 1926 by Jüdischer Verlag under the title of Der Antisemitismus als eine Grouppenerscheinung (literally ‘Anti-Semitism as a Group Phenomenon’)....
History
School
Social Sciences
Department
Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
Psychology and History: interdisciplinary explorations
Pages
223 - 241 (18)
Citation
BILLIG, M., 2014. Henri Tajfel, Peretz Bernstein and ‘Der Antisemitismus’. IN: Tileaga, C. and Byford, J. (eds). Psychology and History: Interdisciplinary Explorations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 223 - 241.
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Publication date
2014
Notes
This book chapter has been accepted for publication and appears in a revised form, following appropriate editorial input by Cambridge University Press, in Psychology and History: Interdisciplinary Explorations published by Cambridge University Press.