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Anti-Judaism : the Western tradition
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Title
Anti-Judaism : the Western tradition / David Nirenberg.
ISBN
9780393058246 (hbk.)
0393058247 (hbk.)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, c2013.
Physical Description
x, 610 p. ; 25 cm.
Summary
"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"--Amazon.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 15, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 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.
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