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Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition

Name: Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
SKU: 9780393347913
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Contributors:

David Nirenberg

Publisher:

W. W. Norton & Company

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Social Science

Book Subcategory:

Jewish, Discrimination, Europe

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Release Date:

2014-03-03

ISBN 13:

9780393347913

Weight:

1.02 lbs

Size:

8.35 x 5.46 x 1.09 inches

Pages:

624

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This incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational anti-Judaism is to the history of the West.

Questions of how we are Jewish and, more critically, how and why we are not have been churning within the Western imagination throughout its history. Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans; Christians and Muslims of every period; even the secularists of modernity have used Judaism in constructing their visions of the world. The thrust of this tradition construes Judaism as an opposition, a danger often from within, to be criticized, attacked, and eliminated. The intersections of these ideas with the world of power--the Roman destruction of the Second Temple, the Spanish Inquisition, the German Holocaust--are well known. The ways of thought underlying these tragedies can be found at the very foundation of Western history.

About the Author
Nirenberg, David: - David Nirenberg is the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought at the University of Chicago, where he is also director of the Neubauer Family Collegium for Culture and Society.

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