Anti-Semitism
Frederic Raphael
Jewish Life and Thoughts
Published by Biteback publications
ISBN 978 1849548908
Hardback pocket sized 155 pp
£10

“There is an old story about Adolf Hitler, in postwar hiding, telling someone that, ‘next time’ he will finish off the Jews and also two ballet dancers. ‘Why two ballet dancers?’ says the other man. ‘See what I mean’ says Adolf. ‘Who cares what happens to the Jews?’. 
This book is a long essay on the history of the world’s oldest hatred, from the 1st Century BCE to Holocaust history, written by an erudite scholar in an entirely accessible and anecdotal style.