Bidspirit auction | (ANTISEMITICA). Lazare, Bernard. Antisemitism, its

(ANTISEMITICA). Lazare, Bernard. Antisemitism, its History and Causes. First Edition in English. pp. 384. Pencil notations. Original boards. 8vo. New York, The International Library Publishing Co., 1903. A foundational, analytical study tracing the roots of anti-Jewish sentiment from antiquity to the modern era. Bernard Lazare (1865-1903) was “the first French Jew to make the transition from an almost self-hating endorsement of total assimilation as a solution to the Jewish problem to a full embrace of the cause of Zionism. Lazare's deserved reputation as the first Dreyfusard in the public sphere became magnified by the extraordinary pen of Charles Péguy, who elevated him to the rank of a Jewish Prophet, ”an incarnation of the essence of the Jewish mystique of the Jewish prophetic tradition.” See Aron Rodrigue, Rearticulations of French Jewish Identities after the Dreyfus Affair, in: Jewish Social Studies Volume 2, Number 3 (1996).