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Hardcover in publisher’s unclipped, unpriced dust-jacket. 461 pages. Bibliographical References, Index. First edition, with no other printings listed. “An examination of Jewish self-hatred viewed as the adoption and internalization of antisemitic stereotypes. Focuses on the belief in the existence of a secret Jewish language and the accusation that Jews are incapable of truly mastering the language and discourse of the society in which they live, tracing the response of Jewish writers in Germany to this accusation from the early modern period up to the Holocaust. Discusses the treatment of Jewish language by post-Holocaust Jewish writers, mostly American, and suggests that this particular form of self-hatred may have disappeared. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)” Previous owner’s small, round blind-stamp on lower fore-edge corner of first leaf (half-title). Book is clean, fresh and otherwise unmarked. Dust-jacker complete with no chips and only a touch of edge-wear. Near fine in a very good dust-jacket. .