The French Enlightenment and the Jews
Arthur Hertzberg
1968
The era of Western history that began with the French Revolution ended in Auschwitz. The emancipation of the Jews was reversed in the most horrendous way. For a short while after 1945 the reigning explanation of the Nazi phenomenon was psychological: this demonic anti-Semitism had arisen from the depths of the most emotionally disturbed element in…
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