Anti-Judaism : the Western tradition / David Nirenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nirenberg, David, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antisemitism--Europe--History.

Antisemitism.

Ethnic relations.

Europe.

History.

Civilization, Western--Jewish influences.

Civilization, Western.

Europe, Western--Ethnic relations.

Europe, Western.

Western Europe.

Physical Description:

x, 610 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2013]

Summary:

"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"--Amazon.

Contents:

Thinking about Judaism, or, The Judaism of thought

The ancient world : Egypt, exodus, empire

Early Christianity : the road to Emmaus, the road to Damascus

The early Church : making sense of the world in Jewish terms

"To every prophet an adversary" : Jewish enmity in Islam

"The revenge of the Savior" : Jews and power in medieval Europe

The extinction of Spain's Jews and the birth of its Inquisition

Reformation and its consequences

"Which is the merchant here, and which is the Jew?" : acting Jewish in Shakespeare's England

"Israel" at the foundations of Christian politics : 1545-1677

Enlightenment revolts against Judaism : 1670-1789

The revolutionary perfection of the world : 1789-?

Philosophical struggles with Judaism, from Kant to Heine

Modernity thinks with Judaism

Drowning intellectuals.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780393058246

0393058247

OCLC:

783163429