Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate
With a new preface by Michael Walzer\ \ Jean-Paul Sartre's book is a brilliant portrait of both anti-Semite and Jew, written by a non-Jew and from a non-Jewish point of view. Nothing of the anti-Semite either in his subtle form as a snob, or in his crude form as a gangster, escapes Sartre's sharp eye, and the whole problem of the Jew's relationship to the Gentile is examined in a concrete and living way, rather than in terms of sociological abstractions.\ \ \ "One of...
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'Still a monument of postwar writing on anti-Semitism....Michael Walzer's fine introduction will help current readers sift out what remains relevant form Sartre's work for considering the variants of antisemitism haunting the world today.' Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Jewish Book World A new preface by Michael Walzer is intended to help readers understand Sartre' classic work in today's world.
"Anti-Semite and Jew, in its best passages, stands with Theodor Adorno's study of the authoritarian personality, Talcott Parson's essays on the sociology of Nazism, Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom,and Hannah Arendt's account of totalitarian politics . . . [Nonetheless] Sartrean authenticity has taken on new meanings, a sign simultaneously that his argument is persuasive and that it is in need of revision."\ —From the Preface by Michael Walzer
\ Jewish Book WorldA new preface by Michael Walzer is intended to help readers understand Sartre' classic work in today's world.\ \
