Anti-Judaism
ISBN: 9781781852965
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Head of Zeus
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Subjects: History; Social Science;

A magisterial history, ranging from antiquity to the present, that reveals anti-Judaism to be a mode of thought deeply embedded in the Western tradition.



There is a widespread tendency to regard anti-Judaism - whether expressed in a casual remark or implemented through pogrom or extermination campaign - as somehow exceptional: an unfortunate indicator of personal prejudice or the shocking outcome of an extremist ideology married to power.



But, as David Nirenberg argues in this ground-breaking study, to confine anit-Judaism to the margins of our culture is to be dangerously complacent. Anti-Judaism is not an irrational closet in the vast edifice of Western thought, but rather one of the basic tools with which that edifice was constructed.

David Nirenberg is Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor of Mediaeval History and Social Thought at Princeton University. His COMMUNITIES OF VIOLENCE won the prestigious Herbert Baxter Adams Award for 1998.

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