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(a) German Editions:
1938 Ein Wort Zum Antisemitismus Die Zukunfl: ein neues Deutschland ein neues Europa, No.7,2.(November 25.)
(b) English Translation:
‘On Antisemitism’ 1938 As above. (Tr. unspecified.)
The present translation is by James Strachey.
Some particulars of the periodical in which this appeared have been given by Arthur Koestler (1954), 406ff.), who was editing it at the time we are concerned with. It was published in Paris, and he described it as ‘a German émigré weekly’. It started publication in the autumn of 1938 and ceased some eighteen months later. Mr. Koestler was in charge of it for the first few months of its existence. The particular issue in which Freud's article appeared was an ‘Anglo-German’ one, printed in both languages, and Mr. Koestler relates that he came to London to persuade Freud to contribute to it. The periodical is now difficult to obtain, and we are much indebted to Dr. K. R. Eissler, of the Sigmund Freud Archives, for providing us with photostats of Freud's original manuscript, of the printed article and of the contemporary, anonymous, and very free, translation.
This article, it will be seen, consists almost wholly of a quotation from a source which Freud declares that he can no longer trace. It has been suggested, with some plausibility (cf. Ernest Jones, 1957, 256), that the quotation is in fact by Freud himself, who chose an indirect manner of expressing some rather uncongenial views. There is in any case a strong kinship between much of what is contained here and opinions put forward by Freud elsewhere, particularly in Moses and Monotheism (1939a), which
he had only recently completed. (See, for instance, the discussions of the Jewish character in Part I (D) and Part II (A) of the third essay.) And again, the plea, made so forcibly here, that protests against the persecution of the Jews should be made by non-Jews appears as well in Freud's letter to Time and Tide (1938c), published only a day