 In "The Origins of Totalitarianism", 1976, first published in 1951, Hannah Arendt cites Cohn's book as an example of what in Arendt's view is an erroneous linkage between religious based anti-Jewish persecution of earlier times and modern secular antisemitism.Arendt 1976, p. xxi.Arendt believes that secular antisemitism arose during the 1870s.