From Ambivalence to Betrayal

Robert S. Wistrich (1945–2015) was the Neuburger Professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. He is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad (2010) and Laboratory for World Destruction: Germans and Jews in Central Europe (Nebraska, 2007).

• Preface  Acknowledgments  Introduction: Jews, Zion, and Revolution THE ANTISEMITIC QUESTION 1. The Racist Temptation in the Labor Movement 2. Karl Marx, Moses Hess, and Jewish Emancipation 3. German Social Democrats on the Völkisch Movement  4. The "Jewish Question" from Engels to Bernstein  5. Anti-Capitalism or Antisemitism? The Enigma of Franz Mehring  6. Socialists and Antisemites in Europe before 1914   NATIONALISM AND INTERNATIONALISM 7. Bernard Lazare: Anarchist, Dreyfusard, and Revolutionary Jew  8. Social Democracy and Judeophobia in Imperial Vienna  9. The Austro-Marxist Critique of Jewish Nationalism  10. Karl Kautsky and the Controversy over Zion  11. The Internationalism of Rosa Luxemburg  12. Leon Trotsky—A Bolshevik Tragedy   ANTI-ZIONIST MYTHOLOGIES 13. From Lenin to the Soviet Black Hundreds  14. The Holocaust Inversion of the Left  15. Bruno Kreisky, Israel, and the Palestinian Question  16. Anti-Zionist Myths on the Contemporary Left 17. Great Britain: A Suitable Case for Treatment?  18. The Marxist-Islamist Alliance   Archival Sources and Selected Bibliography Index

"This is a magisterial work, providing a comprehensive understanding of the origins of the most pernicious challenges currently facing the Jewish people, especially those originating from the enemy within."—Isi Leibler, Jerusalem Post "With this politically urgent and morally compelling study, Wistrich offers a thoroughly researched and demystifying exploration of leftist biases, stereotypes and delusions regarding Jews, Judaism and the state of Israel."—Vladimir Tismaneanu, International Affairs "Professor Wistrich has now written some 30 scholarly books on Jewish history and philosophy, but his work has been dominated by the subject of anti-Semitism. This book is his finest and most comprehensive on the subject."—Stephen Daisley, Standpoint