Creator Bio
Felix Weltsch
1884–1964
Felix Weltsch—philosopher, journalist, and academic librarian—belonged to the Prague Circle of young Jewish intellectuals, whose members included Max Brod and Franz Kafka. A Zionist from his youth, he edited the main Zionist weekly in interwar Czechoslovakia, Selbstwehr. He fled Prague in 1939 and settled in Jerusalem, where he found a position in the Jewish National and University Library.
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Antisemitism as Folk Hysteria
To define the characteristics of antisemitism it is good to proceed on two fronts: i.e., to examine its development externally in a purely empirical manner and thereby find its…