History 4260.009 Spring 2002
HISTORY OF ANTI-SEMITISM FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE PRESENT

Dr. E. G. Pollack
University of North Texas
Office: 227 Wooten
Office Phone: 940 565 2489
Office Hours: Th 4-6 and by appointment

Readings: Robert Chazan, In the Year 1096: The First Crusade and the Jews
John Cornwell, Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
Gerda Klein, All But My Life
Harold Brackman, Ministry of Lies: The Truth Behind the Nation of Islam’s 
“The Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews”

1. Introduction : The Uniqueness of Anti-Semitism
2. Pagan Attitudes to Jews and Judaism in the Ancient World
3. Christian Anti-Semitism
4. The First Crusade and the Massacre of the Jews
5. Medieval Anti-Semitism: Demonizing the Jews; the Ritual Murder Accusation; Desecration 
    of the Host
6. The Inquisition: the Emergence of Racial Anti-Semitism and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain
7. The Protestant Reformation: the Anti-Semitism of Martin Luther
8. The Dreyfus Affair
9. Russian Anti-Semitism and the Pogroms
10. Anti-Semitism in American
      -Anti-Semitism in Early America
      -The Leo Frank Case
      -Jewish Quotas
      -Henry Ford’s Campaign against the Jews

11. The Holocaust
       -The U.S. State Department and the Holocaust

12. Holocaust Denial in Europe and the U.S.

13. Anti-Semitism in the Arab World

14. Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism

15. African-American Anti-Semitism; Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam

The final grade in this course is based on performance on a mid-term examination (40 percent), a final exam (50 percent), and participation in class (10 percent).

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