The Devil and the Jews: The Medieval Conception of the Jew and Its Relation to Modern Antisemitism
Joshua Trachtenberg
1943
The mass mind is eminently retentive. Man, in Nietzsche’s definition, is the being with the longest memory, and José Ortega y Gasset has recently affirmed (in his Toward a Philosophy of History) the objective existence of the accumulated past, as a positive element in creative action. But we cannot neglect the reality of the accumulated past as a n…
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