Postwar Antisemite

In his influential Anti-Semite and Jew, French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre observed "e;If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him."e; In doing so he articulated the figure of an Antisemite responsible for imagining the Jew in a formulation that has lasted for decades. This figure became an indispensable trope in the period immediately after the war. It enabled Germans and Austrian...