Book description
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…
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1 author picked Anti-Judaism as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Nirenberg’s book is not short, but it is a book you will have no trouble working your way through.
It is, I believe, the definitive study of antisemitism through history. If you want to know not just where such a prejudice comes from but also how it changes as society and people’s values change, this is the book for you.
Better than anyone else, Nirenberg shows how an older “religious” prejudice became, as European societies started to become secular in the Enlightenment period, a modern and “secularised” prejudice.
Often, the same tropes remain, but they were just reframed from…
From Paul's list on The best books on religion and prejudice.
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