TY - BOOK AU - Nirenberg,David TI - Anti-Judaism: the Western tradition SN - 0393058247 (hbk.) PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - W. W. Norton & Company KW - Antisemitism KW - Europe KW - History KW - Civilization, Western KW - Jewish influences KW - Europe, Western KW - Ethnic relations N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - "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 ER -