Anti-Semitism, It's History and Causes By Bernard Lazare. Bernard Lazare (15 June 1865 to September 1903) was a Jewish French literary critic, political journalist, anarchist, Zionist and polemicist. As a Jewish intellectual, Bernard Lazare in his book, 'Anti-Semitism, its Causes and History', makes the rare attempt to analyze and evaluate racism and hatred directed against Jews from an impartial and neutral world lens. Like a true and uncommon scholar, Bernard Lazare emotionally separates himself as a Jew from this highly contentious, emotional and controversial topic known as Anti-Semitism. Bernard Lazare in search of the truth and attempting with an unbiased approach to study, understand and explain some of the real and actual causes and not the reactionary emotional reasons underlying the causes of anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism through the centuries. As a result of this impartial inquiry, Bernard Lazare comes to some controversial conclusions which cause discomfort for the Jewish community, contradicting the widely accepted victim and persecution position prevalent among Jews. The predominant Jewish position and view within the historical body of Jewish literature is that anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic behavior stems primarily from blind hatred, primitive xenophobia and irrational malicious behavior from non-Jews, whereas Bernard Lazare attempts to approach the subject with a more balanced, unbiased, almost non-existent and rare view amongst Jews, which is that Jewish people individually and collectively may be partially to blame for the anti-Semitism and racism directed against them historically. On the other end of the extreme, completely opposite from the predominant Jewish position that anti-Semitism is rooted in blind irrational hatred and selfishness of non-Jews, Some have misused the book, 'Anti-Semitism its Causes and History By Bernard Lazare' as a tool of proof and evidence, to make the claim and take the position, that Jews despite their intelligence and positive contributions to society throughout the ages, are ultimately more dangerous than they are worth. Moreover, that Jews are a self-aware parasitic, maniacally egotistical, neurotic, dysfunctional, close minded narcissistic people that have always and will always be a great misfortune to the nations and world societies they inhabit. Jews unable to self-reflect and self-evaluate their own parasitically destructive behavior and how this dysfunctional behavior negatively affects and impacts non-Jewish people of the world, is the actually the real source, cause, reason and instigation of anti-Semitism historically. 'Anti-Semitism, its History and Causes', takes the more balanced and fair position of these two extremes and is well worth the read and study. An excellent book worth reading, download the PDF. Anti-Semitism, It's History and Causes By Bernard Lazare. Keywords: Anti-Semitism; Anti-Semitic; Jew; Jews; Judaism; Racism; Anti-Jewish; Israel; Anti-Semitism its history and causes; Dreyfus Affair; Zionism;