Jan Philipp Reemtsma says: "Social phenomena have histories that can be reconstructed, and these reconstructions also provide an understanding of the dynamics of anti-Semitism.
You need to know these if you want to talk about such phenomena."

Jan Philipp Reemtsma is a German literary and social scientist. His work focuses on 18th and 20th century literature, the theory of civilization and the history of human destructiveness. He was awarded the Bavarian Book Prize in 2023 for his biography of Christoph Martin Wieland.