What Is Antisemitism? - A Contemporary Introduction

What is Antisemitism? offers a history of anti-Jewish animosity from antiquity to the present - including a discussion of the difficulties of defining antisemitism and three case studies illustrating the diverse and wide-ranging nature of the phenomenon in the present-day.

List of contents

Introduction, Part I: Foundations, 1.The Difficulty of Definitions, 2. The Onion Model, Part II: The Christian-Influenced World, 3. Judeophobia, 4. The Early Christian Church, 5. Early Medieval Christendom, 6. Medieval Christendom After the First Crusade, 7. Spain, the Inquisition, and Purity of Blood, 8. East and West Part I: Reformation and Enlightenment, 9. East and West Part II: Emancipation and Revolution, 10. East and West Part III: Modern Antisemitism, 11. Genocide, Part III: The Islamic-Influenced World, 12. Islam and the Jews, 13. Antisemitism in the Arab and Muslim World, Part IV: All Together Now, 14. The Postwar Era and the Final Layer, 15. Antisemitism in the Twenty-First Century

About the author

Linda Maizels is an independent scholar who earned her PhD from the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Summary

What is Antisemitism? offers a history of anti-Jewish animosity from antiquity to the present - including a discussion of the difficulties of defining antisemitism and three case studies illustrating the diverse and wide-ranging nature of the phenomenon in the present-day.

Product details

• Authors: Linda Maizels
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9780367898922
• ISBN: 978-0-367-89892-2
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: What is this thing called Religion?
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; RELIGION / General, RELIGION / Judaism / General, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, RELIGION / Judaism / History, Social & political philosophy, Religion & politics, social and political philosophy, Jewish Studies, Judaism, Religion and Politics, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities