Anti-Judaism

Download or Read eBook Anti-Judaism PDF written by David Nirenberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Anti-Judaism
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 782
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ISBN-10 : 9781781852965
ISBN-13 : 1781852960
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Book Synopsis Anti-Judaism by : David Nirenberg

Book excerpt: A magisterial history, ranging from antiquity to the present, that reveals anti-Judaism to be a mode of thought deeply embedded in the Western tradition. There is a widespread tendency to regard anti-Judaism – whether expressed in a casual remark or implemented through pogrom or extermination campaign – as somehow exceptional: an unfortunate indicator of personal prejudice or the shocking outcome of an extremist ideology married to power. But, as David Nirenberg argues in this ground-breaking study, to confine anit-Judaism to the margins of our culture is to be dangerously complacent. Anti-Judaism is not an irrational closet in the vast edifice of Western thought, but rather one of the basic tools with which that edifice was constructed.


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