Anti-Judaism : the Western tradition
Nirenberg, David , 1964 -
Anti-Judaism : the Western tradition / David Nirenberg - New York : W. W. Norton & Co. , c2013 - 610 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 475-579) 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.
9780393347913
2012031082
Antisemitism----History----Europe
Civilization, Westeren----Jewish influences
Europe, Western----Ethnic relations
DS146.E85 / N57 2013
305.8924 NIR
Anti-Judaism : the Western tradition / David Nirenberg - New York : W. W. Norton & Co. , c2013 - 610 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 475-579) 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.
9780393347913
2012031082
Antisemitism----History----Europe
Civilization, Westeren----Jewish influences
Europe, Western----Ethnic relations
DS146.E85 / N57 2013
305.8924 NIR
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