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In 1996, Daniel Goldhagen unleashed a fury of controversy when he published the book Hitler\\u2019s Willing Executioners, in which he argued that the Holocaust took place not because Germans were especially obedient to authority, or because a few bad apples came into power, but because an eliminationist prejudice against Jews was woven into the very fabric of German culture. Germans \\u201cconsidered the slaughter to be just,\\u201d Goldhagen wrote. His book hit a nerve\\u2014critics called Goldhagen out for using overly broad generalizations to indict an entire country\\u2014but that criticism didn\\u2019t hurt the book\\u2019s reception; it was a phenomenal success in Germany and around the world.

Nearly 20 years later, Goldhagen has broadened his scope in a new work. The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism offers an in-depth look at anti-Semitism around the world. He argues...

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