Why read Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe?

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This is the first book to examine the relationship between European antisemitism and Islamophobia from the Crusades until the twenty-first century in the principal flashpoints of the two racisms. With case studies ranging from the Balkans to the UK, the contributors take the debate away from politicised polemics about whether…

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1 author picked Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Paul Hedges

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This choice might be idiosyncratic, but it is one that deeply matters to how I think about the wider question of religious hatred.

In short, if we want to understand any form of prejudice, or the reasons why one group of people hates another group of people, why one group of people is disadvantaged in society compared to others, then we need to understand the question of how different types of prejudice relate to each other.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Western societies often spoke of a “Jewish question” (or problem). In the late twentieth and early…

From Paul's list on religion and prejudice.