Softbound. 8vo. 387 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In Portuguese. Title translates as: “A Short History of Anti-Semitism. ” “The author of this chronological study of anti-Jewish persecution is a Brazilian-born BBC official with a background in classical studies, and the richest part of his 2500-year narrative deals with antiquity-which featured no ‘anti-Semitism’ in the modern sense. […] Also notable is the account of Jewish fortunes in Brazil under the relatively tolerant Dutch colonialists and the relatively ineffectual Portuguese Inquisition. [Ineffectually] Massacres and expulsions are viewed as mere unpredictable ‘epidemics. ’ By the same token, in the modern period Morais describes manipulations of popular backwardness like the intelligence-agency, forgery of the Protocols of Zion; yet the emphasis is on the general psychology of stereotypes and ethnocentrism, rather than the deliberate destruction of the Enlightenment tradition from above. ” [Review from Kirkus Reviews] Subjects: Antisemitism - History. Antissemitismo, - história. Questão judaica. Outer edges lightly soiled. Light foxing on first endpage. Light tear to backstrip. Otherwise fresh and clean. Good condition. (HOLO2-99-31)