Books by Michael Berkowitz

Focusing on the cultural invention of Zionism, the author of this study explores how and why the Jewish nationalist movement was embraced by assimilated Jews of Western Europe before World War I. There is a focus on the attraction of Zionism's symbolism, artistic representations and mythologies.

Broadening our understanding of photography's history and its influence on modernism, this richly illustrated study-the first of its kind-reveals the remarkable extent to which British photography is a Jewish story.

Investigates a dimension of anti-Semitism that was instrumental in the conception and perpetration of the Holocaust: the association of Jews with criminality. This book traces the myths and realities pertinent to the discourse on "Jewish criminality" from the 18th century through the Weimar Republic, into the complex Nazi assault on the Jews.