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{en} David Nirenberg. Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2013.

Abstract

"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"--

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 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.

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