| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4

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Book Review

The "Jewish Threat": Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army. By Joseph W. Bendersky. (New York: Basic Books, 2000. xviii, 539 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-465-00617-5.)

The Judeophobia harbored by gentiles serving as military officers has attracted very little interest among historians either of the Jews or of the armed services. Probably no scholar ever claimed that the military was conspicuous for its philosemitic attitudes, but, until Joseph W. Bendersky plunged into the massive archival material that forms the basis of his research, the magnitude and the intensity of the military's bigotry against Jews—and especially its implications during the Holocaust—had been unknown and the consequences unconsidered. The "Jewish Threat" is more than a pioneering monograph, however. It also happens to be excellent: its author's immersion in the primary sources has been exceptionally energetic and thorough; his generalizations are sound and plausible; the fairness of his interpretations contrasts sharply with the malice that permeates his material; and his presentation is fluent. . . .

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