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Anti-Judaism : the Western tradition / David Nirenberg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, c2013.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 610 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0393058247 (hbk.)
  • 9780393058246 (hbk.)
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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.
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.
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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.



Questions of how we are Jewish and, more critically, how and why we are not have been churning within the Western imagination throughout its history. Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans; Christians and Muslims of every period; even the secularists of modernity have used Judaism in constructing their visions of the world. The thrust of this tradition construes Judaism as an opposition, a danger often from within, to be criticized, attacked, and eliminated. The intersections of these ideas with the world of power--the Roman destruction of the Second Temple, the Spanish Inquisition, the German Holocaust--are well known. The ways of thought underlying these tragedies can be found at the very foundation of Western history.

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.

"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.

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