Werner Sombart, a leading member of the…
1911 CE
In The Jews and Modern Capitalism, he traces capitalist acquisitiveness and success to the spread and rise of Jews in Central and Northern Europe—directly contradicting Weber's famous thesis relating it to Protestantism.
Jews and liberals find it crudely anti-Semitic, anti-Semites and conservatives consider it too pro-Semitic, and scholars find its sources (if given) questionable and without research merit.
Unfortunately for the Jews, Sombart's book has a popular impact, providing the economic, racial, philosophical and historical "evidence" for the distorted portrait of the stereotypical crafty Jewish capitalist that has begun to gain wider acceptance in Europe.