by David Nirenberg (Author)
In this magisterial history, David Nirenberg explores anti-Judaism from antiquity to the present, from the Ancient Egyptians who resented their Jewish neighbours to the ideas of Voltaire and Marx, thereby revealing it to be a mode of thought deeply embedded in the Western tradition.
With intolerance and racism on the rise across the West, the central argument of David Nirenberg's groundbreaking study - that to imagine anti-Judaism to be confined to the margins of our society is to be dangerously complacent - is as urgent and as timely as it has ever been.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 624
Publisher: Apollo A rigorous account of one of history's darkest tendencies, following the development of anti-Judaism across three millennia.
Published: 04 Oct 2018
ISBN 10: 1789541166
ISBN 13: 9781789541168
Book Overview:
David Nirenberg is the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor of Mediaeval History and Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages (1999).