"Munich as the point of origin for the explosion of antisemitism in Germany in the early 1920s is the focus of In Hitler’s Munich. For Michael Brenner what mattered most was not the reprieve Jews experienced in 1923 but the failed revolution of 1918–1919 that put them at so much risk in the first place."---Christopher R. Browning, New York Review of Books

“[This book] is entertaining, full of surprises, and enjoyable—a real thriller about the Bavarian Revolution.”—Mirjam Zadoff, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung“Michael Brenner’s masterful book offers important lessons for us today about the fragility of democracies, the consequences of unchecked antisemitic conspiracy theories, and the willingness of self-serving political elites to aid and abet the rise to power of populist demagogues. This is a scintillating and profoundly important work of scholarship.”—John M. Efron, author of German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic“Brenner shows that in many respects it was the Bavarian capital that helped make Hitler what he became. Filled with characters notable for their brilliance or repulsiveness (and sometimes both), his narrative demolishes numerous myths and helps us understand how quickly and thoroughly apparently broad-minded folk can turn into racist bigots. A fine and necessary book.”—Frederick Taylor, author of 1939: A People’s History of the Coming of the Second World War“Set in what Thomas Mann recognized as ‘the city of Hitler’ already in 1923, this unusually intimate account of revolution and counterrevolution reveals how unexpectedly crossed relationships between Jews, revolutionaries, and antisemites turned unforgiving and lethal in a few short years.”—Peter Fritzsche, author of Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich"A striking, extremely important work. Brenner shows how the events in Munich were crucial to the rise of the Nazi movement and led to the antisemitic violence in the years after Hitler's ascension to power."—Michael Berkowitz, author of The Crime of My Very Existence: Nazism and the Myth of Jewish Criminality"A dazzling book filled with vivid insights and poignant historical ironies on nearly every page. Brenner has written one of the most nuanced collective portraits of twentieth-century German Jewish lives and identities that I know."—Paul Hanebrink, author of A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism