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...
Anti-Semitism is a poor man's snobbery, writes Jean-Paul Sartre in one of the most perceptive and brilliant analyses of the subject ever written. Although anti-Semitism, like racial bigotry of any sort, can exist anywhere in society, Sartre demonstrates that it is basically a...
'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