Gisela C. Lebzelter is an

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, and

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, and an expert on

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and

antisemitism Antisemitism or Jew-hatred is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who harbours it is called an antisemite. Whether antisemitism is considered a form of racism depends on the school of thought. Antisemi ...

. Scholars who study British fascism and antisemitism frequently cite her 1978 book ''Political Anti-Semitism in England 1918-1939''—a revision of her thesis submitted to

St Antony's College, Oxford St Antony's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1950 as the result of the gift of French merchant Sir Antonin Besse of Aden, St Antony's specialises in international relations, economics, politic ...

. Lebzelter has done much research on

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(responsible for repeatedly publishing ''

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'' in the UK), including its founding President,

Henry Hamilton Beamish Henry Hamilton Beamish (2 June 1873 – 27 March 1948) was a leading British antisemitic journalist and the founder of The Britons in 1919, the first organisation set up in Britain for the express purpose of diffusing antisemitic propaganda. Af ...

, and his successor, John Henry Clarke. Dr. Lebzelter has a non-Jewish background. She was a student at the

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and

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."Antisemitism In Britain", ''AJR Information'', November 1980
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Works

* ''Political Anti-Semitism in England, 1918-1939'' :(Thesis .Phil.-University of Oxford, 1977) :Description: 5, ii, 349 leaves: ill.; 30 cm. :BLDSC reference no.: D37413/87. * ''Ibid.'' :(New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1978) : * ''Ibid.'' :(London: Macmillan, in association with St Antony’s College, Oxford, 1978) :

Notes

References

* Davies, Alan T. and Marilyn F. Nefsky, ''How Silent Were the Churches?: Canadian Protestantism and the Jewish Plight During the Nazi Era'', (Waterloo, Ont.:

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, 1997), , (pbk.) * Ceplair, Larry S., ''Under the Shadow of War: Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and Marxists, 1918-1939'', (New York:

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, 1987), * Spurr, Michael A., "'Playing for Fascism': Sportsmanship, Antisemitism and the British Union of Fascists", ''

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'', Volume 37, Issue 4, December 2003, pp. 359–376

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