I’VE BEEN COMPILING A LIST OF USEFUL JEWISH STUDIES BOOKS for a while, and personally acquiring many of them too.
They are now listed on this website in the column to the right under the heading “VARIOUS JEWISH STUDIES BOOKS.” I hope to update this list frequently. If any of you have suggestions for good books that I’ve missed, please leave them in the comments section here.
I’ve found all these works to be extremely helpful in learning about The Jewish Question, and I hope that some of you will find them equally useful in your studies. Some of them are blatantly ‘anti-Jewish,’ while others are neutral…still others are pro-Jewish. Whatever their bias or stance, all of them contain much excellent information regarding The Jewish Question. Many were written by non-Jews, while others were written by Jews; it is important though, as all experienced scholars know, to choose your sources carefully.
Now, a recommendation:
I recently finished reading a translation (the only translation, I think) of a book by Eugen Dühring entitled The Jewish Question: A Racial, Moral and Cultural Question With a World-Historical Answer. It is obvious that the book was not translated in to English sooner because International Jewry didn’t want this valuable information to be made available to the English-speaking world — in other words, the book was censored by International Jewry for well over 100 years.
This book is a brilliant exposition on The Jewish Question, and it is as relevant now as when it was first written in the late 19th Century. Dühring was a German philosopher and economist, and thus the book is particularly focused on economic and philosophical issues as they relate to The Jewish Question, though there are sociological, religious, political, and anthropological elements within the book as well. In the late 19th Century Dühring and his writings were quite notable, so notable in fact that he was mentioned several times by Nietzsche in On the Genealogy of Morality.
The edition I have is a translation of the 2nd edition (1881) entitled Eugen Dühring on the Jews; it was translated by Dr. Alexander Jacob and released in 1997 by Nineteen Eighty Four Press in Brighton, England. It is unfortunately not available to buy through Amazon.com or any other major book-selling website that I’ve been able to find (it may be out of print), but luckily it is for sale on a website called National Vanguard Books.
Sometimes the translation is a bit awkward or gawky (this is normal for many translated works), but generally I think Dr. Jacob’s translation of this hugely important book is well done. Mostly I’m just glad to finally have a translation of this critical treatise available in English. Dr. Jacob’s introduction to the book is also well written and contains much valuable background information, commentary, and personal insights. The bibliography is excellent too and allows for ample further reading in many related topics.
Again, this book is a very important work regarding The Jewish Question. It is surely some of the most ‘high brow’ writing to ever emerge from any Western country regarding The Jewish Question, and it is eminently quotable. This is a brilliant book and I highly recommend it to any serious scholar/researcher of The Jewish Question — get it while you can.
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* NOTE: many thanks to Friedrich Braun of The Civic Platform for posting about this book back in June and letting me know that it existed. Via Braun’s website you can also listen to an excellent interview with Dr. Jacob here. Also, if anyone knows how I could get in contact with Dr. Jacob please drop me a line through e-mail or here in the comments section.
