A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism by Paul Hanebrink Dictionaries From the acclaimed author of

From the acclaimed author of The Jew in the Lotus comes an "engrossing and wonderful book" (The Washington Times) about the unexpected connections between Franz Kafka and Hasidic master Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav—and the significant role played by the imagination in the Jewish spiritual experience

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This outstanding collection features the work of fifteen acclaimed Yiddish poets

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A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism by Paul Hanebrink Dictionaries From the acclaimed author ofFor much of the last century, Europe was haunted by a threat of its own imagining: Judeo Bolshevism. The belief that Communism was a Jewish plot to destroy the nations of Europe took hold during the Russian Revolution and quickly spread. During World War II, fears of a Judeo Bolshevik conspiracy were fanned by the fascists and sparked a genocide. But the myth did not die with the end of Nazi Germany. A Specter Haunting Europe shows that this paranoid