Description
Presents a collection of documents and excerpts from books and articles relating to Jewish history from the mid-17th to the mid-20th centuries. Includes many items dealing with antisemitism and the Holocaust - see ch. 7, "Political and Racial Antisemitism", and ch. 11, "The Holocaust". Ch. 8, "East European Jewry", contains items on anti-Jewish legislation in Russia, the Kishinev pogrom in 1903, and the Beilis trial.