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Covers modern era antisemitism of French Enlightenmemt thinkers such as Voltaire, Rousseau, German titans such as Fichte, Kant, Wagner, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and famous writings of Bruno Bauer and Karl Marx.

What's interesting here is that antisemitism becomes solely a political and economical critique rather than the religious one (well, ancients did both, but The Dark Ages rightly earned its title... lol)

Dalton transitions from antiquity and middle ages into the modern era.

Antiquity is certainly an interesting one, because it showcasts certain tropes used during the WW2, such as gassing of Jews conducted by Flaccus, or how Nero burned Jews to use them as lamps at night, both being very dubious records.

Middle ages are pretty boring, turns out Christian criticism of Jewish people hasn't changed much in 1500 years.

First chapter of the first part touches (anti-)semitism in pre-Christian times, from Egypt to pre-Christian Rome, citing various surviving text fragments. It is interesting that the first explicit reference of Jewish people in Ancient Greece, where Aristotle's pupil Theophrastus, repelled by their sacrafice rituals, contains the word Holokautountes (whole burnt offering; complete burning = holos-kaustos).