In a country founded on the principle of religious freedom, with no medieval past, no legal nobility, and no national church, how did anti-Semitism become a presence here? Frederic Cople Jaher considers this question in "A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness," the first history of American anti-Semitism from its origins in the ancient world to its first widespread outbreak during the Civil War. | A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness by Frederic Cople Jaher, Paperback | Indigo Chapters