Richard E Frankel
@refrankel.bsky.social
Professor of German History comparing antisemitism in Germany and the US, late 19th, early 20th century. And yes, it’s painfully relevant to the 21st.
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No, I don’t go into the postwar period.
November 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
No, I don’t go into the postwar period.
Among other things, it has a chapter that compares Ford’s newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, with the official Nazi Party paper, focusing specifically on their ideas of an international Jewish conspiracy.
November 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Among other things, it has a chapter that compares Ford’s newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, with the official Nazi Party paper, focusing specifically on their ideas of an international Jewish conspiracy.
And the President of the United States was a really good friend of a major pedophile and sex trafficker.
November 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
And the President of the United States was a really good friend of a major pedophile and sex trafficker.
I’ve enjoyed following your posts. If you’re interested in more on antisemitism and antisemitism-related conspiracy thinking you might want to take a look at my most recent book, which also provides some interesting points of comparison with German antisemitism over the same period.
Antisemitism Before the Holocaust: Re-Evaluating Antisemitic Exceptionalism in Germany and the United States, 1880-1945
This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sustained comparison of the anti-Jewish environments in b...
www.routledge.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I’ve enjoyed following your posts. If you’re interested in more on antisemitism and antisemitism-related conspiracy thinking you might want to take a look at my most recent book, which also provides some interesting points of comparison with German antisemitism over the same period.
Man with tiny hands wants to build huge ballroom… for some reason 🤔
November 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Man with tiny hands wants to build huge ballroom… for some reason 🤔
If anyone is gonna obey an order from Trump it’ll be drug dealers and human traffickers 🤦♂️
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
If anyone is gonna obey an order from Trump it’ll be drug dealers and human traffickers 🤦♂️
WASHINGTON: “Get this fuckhead away from me!!!”
November 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
WASHINGTON: “Get this fuckhead away from me!!!”
Americans believed antisemitism was a “European import” back in the early 20th century. It isn’t true now and it wasn’t true then either. I wrote about antisemitism in America and Germany from the late 19th to the early 20th century. As I show, Americans didn’t need any help with antisemitism.
Antisemitism Before the Holocaust: Re-Evaluating Antisemitic Exceptionalism in Germany and the United States, 1880-1945
This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sustained comparison of the anti-Jewish environments in b...
www.routledge.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Americans believed antisemitism was a “European import” back in the early 20th century. It isn’t true now and it wasn’t true then either. I wrote about antisemitism in America and Germany from the late 19th to the early 20th century. As I show, Americans didn’t need any help with antisemitism.
Mid-30s? That’s also Donnie’s IQ!! What a coincidence!!!
November 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Mid-30s? That’s also Donnie’s IQ!! What a coincidence!!!
Or Henry Ford talking about Jews not being compatible with American society.
November 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Or Henry Ford talking about Jews not being compatible with American society.
Barely functional
November 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Barely functional
Functional Illiterate Who Says He Has No Idea What Magnets Are Calls Someone Stupid
November 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Functional Illiterate Who Says He Has No Idea What Magnets Are Calls Someone Stupid
If he’s gonna be this rude and obnoxious, why is anyone obligated to treat him with respect? He should get back nothing better than he puts out.
November 28, 2025 at 12:45 AM
If he’s gonna be this rude and obnoxious, why is anyone obligated to treat him with respect? He should get back nothing better than he puts out.
Are they still eating the dogs, eating the cats, are they still eating the pets of the people that live there?
November 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Are they still eating the dogs, eating the cats, are they still eating the pets of the people that live there?
Nobody cheats like me.
November 28, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Nobody cheats like me.
The proper response here is, “Go fuck yourself.”
November 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The proper response here is, “Go fuck yourself.”
I believe the clinical term is “malignant narcissist.”
November 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I believe the clinical term is “malignant narcissist.”
That kitchen’s as white as his ideal American.
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
That kitchen’s as white as his ideal American.
My latest book challenges two common ideas about modern antisemitism in the late 19th and early 20th century: that it was uniquely mild in America and uniquely murderous in Germany. Through a comparative approach I show how both positions need to be retired.
Antisemitism Before the Holocaust: Re-Evaluating Antisemitic Exceptionalism in Germany and the United States, 1880-1945
This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sustained comparison of the anti-Jewish environments in b...
www.routledge.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
My latest book challenges two common ideas about modern antisemitism in the late 19th and early 20th century: that it was uniquely mild in America and uniquely murderous in Germany. Through a comparative approach I show how both positions need to be retired.