From Prejudice to Destruction: Anti-Semitism, 1700-1933

This book was a textbook for a class I took on the Holocaust. I have since read other works by Jacob Katz and I find his work to be well-written, even for people who are not academics, and thorough in its approach. This book in particular offers an excellent survey of the development of anti-Judaic and anti-Semitic thought throughout European history. If you are interested in understanding the sources of anti-Semitic thought and race theory as phenomena that culminated in the Holocaust and other modern manifestations of the genocidal impulse, this book is a must. The things Katz highlights and discusses will blow your mind. By the time I finished the book, I understood so much more about how things like the Holocaust could happen in the first place.