A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism by Paul Hanebrink bilingual Zubin Mehta and Joshua Bell

Zubin Mehta and Joshua Bell

an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio

Original dramas

Drawing on the experiences of and photographs by a generation of young Jewish photographers who belonged to the New York Photo League

A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism by Paul Hanebrink bilingual Zubin Mehta and Joshua BellFor 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