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INTRODUCTIONXlllThese two volumes are of capital importance for the futuredevelopment of antisemitism. Not only do all later anti-Semites, such as Rohling, plagiarise them, but they linktogether, as no ancient writer did, the contemporary conductof the Jews with their theological and historical failings. Inthis way the hatred of the Jews for the Christians is explainedas the consequence of Jewish religious teaching, and theresponsibility of the non-Jewish population for its existenceis kept well in the background.The matter slumbered during the rest of the century, butit was again fanned into flame by the emancipation of theJews and by the prominent part which they took in theeconomic developments of the nineteenth century. Economicand religious questions became completely intertwinedwith politics, and a new form of polemic was evolved, inwhich contemporarylife was the main interest. But the oldaccusations still remained to explain the Jewish position insociety and to deepen the new hostility of the common peopleto the Jews.The literature which this new antisemitic movementproduced is enormous, and it is only possible to indicatea few examples. The earliest writings came from France,where in the 'forties Toussenel produced in two volumesa work, Les Juifs, rois de Vepogue. This was followed byUentree des Israelites dans la Societe franf aise by the AbbeJoseph Lemann, himself a converted Jew, and these twoworks served as a basis for the infamous attack on the FrenchJews of Edouard Drumont, La France Juive^ which, in spiteof being a work of two fat volumes, ran into innumerableeditions and produced a whole literature of attack anddefence in the years immediately preceding the AffaireDreyfus.In Germany a similar literature came into being with thepublication by a journalist, Wilhelm Marr, of a sensationalpamphlet on the Victory of Judaism over Germanism. Thenineteenth century saw this attack developed along severaldifferent lines. Treitschke developed political antisemitism:Chamberlain embellished all the absurdities of racial antisemitismwith immense learning in The Foundations of theNineteenth Century: Canon Rohling in the Talmudjuderevived ritual murder accusations and all the poison of