Antisemitism has appeared in many times and places-and, as David Anthony shows in his informative, unsettling Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature, in many genres.
Anthony demonstrates that the Jew as villain-materialistic, scheming, sometimes sexually aggressive-was a common stereotype in the pre-Civil War era. But he also reveals that many non-Jews expressed ambivalence, depicting Jews as menacing yet enticingly exotic.
Much of Anthony's focus is on Jewish characters in sensational novels.
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