Recent publications in psychoanalysis and the biography of Freud give much emphasis to the subject of anti-Semitism. This is probably a consequence of the Holocaust, as well as other factors in ethnic matters and, in general, is a very positive thing. One thinks of Hannah S. Decker's recent volume Freud, Dora and Vienna 1900 (1991), which gives a thorough exposition of the vitriolic and vicious anti-Semitism that existed in Austria during much of Freud's life, and ineluctably inescapable in the development of a Jewish career. The volume under present consideration was written by a man with “a broad background of knowledge in social and clinical psychology, ethnic identity, and Jewish history,” and