Anti-Judaism

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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.

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).

[A] truly monumental book... Full of delights... This is a book that will - and should - stop you in your tracks' * Sunday Times * In this remarkable book, the development of a way of thinking is traced with scholarly rigour * The Times * [Nirenberg has done] a great service... not only to historians' -- Edward Peters