The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism

A groundbreaking--and terrifying--examination of the widespread resurgence of antisemitism in the 21st century, by the prize-winning and #1 internationally bestselling author of "Hitler's Willing Executioners." Antisemitism never went away, but since the turn of the century it has multiplied beyond what anyone would have predicted. It is openly spread by intellectuals, politicians and religious leaders in Europe, Asia, the Arab world, America and Africa and supported by hundreds of millions more. Indeed, today antisemitism is stronger than any time since the Holocaust. In THE DEVIL THAT NEVER DIES, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen reveals the unprecedented, global form of this age-old hatred; its strategic use by states; its powerful appeal to individuals and groups; and how technology has fueled the flames that had been smoldering prior to the millennium. A remarkable work of intellectual brilliance, moral stature, and urgent alarm, THE DEVIL THAT NEVER DIES is destined to be one of the most provocative and talked-about books of the year.

About the Author :
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, born 1959, grew up in the Boston area. He attended Harvard University where he received a BA in social studies and a masters and doctorate in political science. He subsequently was a political science professor at Harvard for many years, teaching courses on a range of subjects, including European politics, democracy, and genocide. In 1996 he published "Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust," which led to more prolonged and heated discussion around the world than just about any book in memory. It was an international bestseller that instantly turned Goldhagen into an international public figure, whose views are eagerly sought on both sides of the Atlantic. It won him many accolades, including Germany's Democracy Prize, given only every three years, for his singular contribution to German democracy. The "laudatio" at the prize ceremony was delivered by perhaps Europe's most esteemed and influential intellectual and philosopher, Jurgen Habermas. Shortly afterwards, he decided to devote himself full-time to writing, and was in the midst of composing a book on genocide in our age (forthcoming with Knopf), when he produced an essay on the Catholic Church and the Holocaust for the "New Republic," entitled, "What Would Jesus Have Done?" In writing it, he realized that some of the most crucial questions concerning the Holocaust and our public life more generally had been barely addressed, and certainly not answered properly, so he decided to temporarily put aside the book on genocide and write "A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and its unfulfilled Duty of Repair," Hugely anticipated here and in Europe (the"Los Angeles Times" wrote last spring, "Those inclined to handicap this fall's publishing season already are giving long odds that the year's most contoversial nonfiction book will be historian Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's "A Moral Reckoning,""), it is a book that the Church and the public will not be able to ignore. It has already induced the leading Cardinal of the German Catholic Church and the Archbishop of Vienna to respond in interviews in their country's major magazines. "From the Hardcover edition."