Fabre-Vassas's work in particular illuminates the fear of otherness that, as a dimension of human consciousness, underlies the relationship between those who are persecuted and those who persecute... The extensive and detailed research in The Singular Beast provides ample evidence of how Jewishness became imbued with all manner of hateful traits.... Through ethnography and text, Fabre-Vassas offers a rich and nuanced protrait of anti-Semitic beliefs and practices that remained deeply embedded in twentieth-century European society.

Claudine Fabre-Vassas is a research fellow at the Centre Nationale Recherche Scientifique and teaches at the École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Carol Volk is a translator and Foreign Service Officer based in Washington, D.C.

One. An Anological Being
One. The Red Men
Two. Children's Stories
Three. The Circle of Metamorphoses
Two. From One Blood To the Next
Four. The Jew's Sow
Five. Red Easter
Six. Old Jews, Young Christians
Seven. The Little Jew
Three. Christian Flesh
Eight. The Return of the Pig
Nine. Blood and Soul
Ten. The Bone That Sings. The Time of Sacrifice