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A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness : The Origins and Rise of Anti-Semitism in America
A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness The Origins and Rise of AntiSemitism in America Author:Frederic Jaher In a country founded on the principle of religious freedom, with no medieval past, no legal nobility, and no national church, how did anti-Semitism become a presence here? Frederic Cople Jaher considers this question in A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness, the first history of American anti-Semitism from its origins in the ancient world to ... more »its first widespread outbreak during the Civil War.« less