TY - BOOK AU - Klaus P.Fischer TI - History of an Obsession SN - 9780826413277 AV - DS146.G4 U1 - 943.004924 PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - History - Europe N2 - Klaus Fischer charts the tortured history of German-Jewish relations over a millennium, from migration and ghettoization in the Middle Ages to enlightenment and emancipation in the eighteenth century to varieties of anti-Jewish prejudices in the Second Reich to the rise of pathological Judeophobia in the years 1918 to 1933. The aim of the book is to provide a historical explanation for this change in consciousness that began with a religious prejudice, moved to social and political discrimination, and ended up in annihilatory rage ER -