What is Antisemitism?: A Contemporary Introduction

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In October 2018, a white supremacist murdered eleven Jewish worshipers and wounded six others at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the deadliest attack on Jews ever perpetrated in the United States. The gunman’s motivation to kill Jews stemmed from his belief that Jews were committing "genocide" against white Americans. Although his animosity was motivated by a racial conception of Jews, the attack took place in a house of worship, illustrating the complex and interlocking web of anti-Jewish hatred based on race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, economic issues, and conspiracy theory that is commonly referred to as "antisemitism."

What is Antisemitism? provides a detailed overview of this complex topic. It offers a history of anti-Jewish animosity from antiquity to the present; a discussion of the difficulties of defining antisemitism – arguably one of the most contentious issues in the contemporary discourse on the subject – and three case studies illustrating the diverse and wide-ranging nature of the phenomenon in the present-day, including examples from the political far right, the political hard left, and radical Islamism.

With suggestions for further reading, and a chronological structure, this volume is an accessible and essential student textbook.

Author(s): Linda Maizels
Series: What is this thing called?
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022

Language: English
Pages: 298
City: London

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Some notes on terminology
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
Index