Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition [Paperback]

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.Exhilarating . . . a scholarly tour de force. The story Nirenberg has to tell is not over.Adam Kirsch, Learned and disquieting. . . . Chilling. . . . Nirenberg offers his painful and important history so that we might recognize these patterns [of intolerance and violence] in hopes of not falling into them yet again. Brilliant, fascinating. [A] magisterial work of intellectual history. US