Robert S. Wistrich, Muslimischer Antisemitismus: Eine aktuelle Gefahr, [Muslim anti-Semitism: A Present Danger] (Berlin: Edition Critic, 2011), 161 pages.  (in German) Reviewed by Manfred Gerstenfeld  Historian Robert Wistrich holds the Neuberger Chair for Modern European and Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since 2002, he has served as Director of the Vidal...

Umberto Eco. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade, 2011. $13 pp. 464 Reviewed by Edward Alexander  The center of this novel is The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a catastrophically influential forged account of the minutes of a meeting (which never took place) in Prague's ancient cemetery of "learned Elders of Zion" organizing Jewish bankers and trade unionists, rabbis...

The Eichmann Trial Diary, by Sergio Minerbi, trans. Robert L. Miller, preface by Gabriel Bach, Enigma Books, 2011, 190 pp.    Reviewed by Joel Fishman   Although the essential facts of the Eichmann trial are known, the significance of this event is far greater and much more complex than would seem on first impression. In the simplest sense, the Eichmann trial was a trial of a...

Dr. Ze'ev Maghen. Published by CreateSpace, 2011. $13 pp. 292 Gershom Scholem, the Leviathan of Jewish mysticism and influential professor at Hebrew University from 1933-65,  once mischievously remarked that a country's talent goes where it is needed, and in Israel it was needed far more urgently in the military than in the universities. Since then the itch to epater les Juifs (outrage the...

Genocidal Liberalism: The University's Jihad Against Israel & Jews, 2012. $12.45 pp. 317 - Reviewed by Edward Alexander    By locating a genocidal impulse at work in today's universities, the explosive title of this book (somewhat weakened by that unfortunate word "jihad") inevitably calls to mind an earlier book called Hitler's Professors: The Part of...