The Routledge History of Antisemitism

Preface: Antisemitism – A Comment

Yehuda Bauer

Foreword

David I. Kertzer

Introduction

Mark Weitzman, Robert J. Williams, and James Wald

SECTION I: Chronology

1. Jews and Non-Jews in Ancient Cities: Alexandria, Antioch, Caesarea, Rome

Benjamin Isaac

2. Medieval Antisemitism

Robert Chazan

3. Antisemitism: The Last 150 Years

Richard S. Levy

4. Contemporary Antisemitism

David Hirsh

SECTION II: Geography

5. American Antisemitism

Jonathan D. Sarna

6. Argentina and the Jews: Between the Privileges of "Whiteness" and the Curse of "Badness"

Martina Weisz

7. East Asia and Antisemitism: A Vast Region Immersed in Admiration and Consternation

Rotem Kowner

8. Antisemitism in Australia

Suzanne D. Rutland

9. The Judeo-Bolshevik Myth and Contemporary Antisemitism in the Baltic States

Christine Beresniova and Doyle Stevick

10. What is the Role Played by Antisemitism in the History of the Jews in Brazil?

Roney Cytrynowicz

11. English Antisemitism

Anthony Julius

12. Antisemitism in France

Maurice Samuels

13. Antisemitism in Germany

James Wald

14. Anti-semitism in Hungary

Holly Case

15. Antisemitism in North Africa

Haim Saadoun

16. Antisemitism in Mexico

Judit Bokser Liwerant

17. Antisemitism in the Middle East

Meir Litvak

18. Antisemitism in Poland

Rafal Pankowski

19. Antisemitism in Russia

Per Anders Rudling

20. Antisemitism in South Africa

Milton Shain

21. Antisemitism in Spain – A Historical Survey

Jonathan Ray

22. Antisemitism in Turkey

Rifat N. Bali

23. Antisemitism in Ukraine

John-Paul Himka

SECTION III: Topics

24. Christianity and Antisemitism

Deborah Forger and Susannah Heschel

25. Muslim Antisemitism: Religion, Politics, and Israel

Mehnaz M. Afridi

26. Blood Libel and Its Persistence in Antisemitic Imagination

Magda Teter

27. Antisemitism and the Persistence of the "Protocols"

Steven Leonard Jacobs

28. The Long Term and the Short Term: Antisemitism and the Holocaust

Jeffrey Herf

29. Antisemitism and Diseases, Pandemics, and Public Health Crises

Robert J. Williams

30. Antisemitism and Art

Sara Offenberg

31. Philosophy and Judeophobia

Jonathan Judaken

32. Gender and Antisemitism

Christina von Braun

33. Discourse and Antisemitism

Ruth Wodak

34. BDS and Antisemitism

Cary Nelson

35. Antisemitism 2.0 and the Cyberculture of Hate: Opening Pandora’s Box

Monika Schwarz-Friesel

36. Algorithmic Antisemitism on Social Media

Monika Hübscher

37. Holocaust Denial and Distortion

Mark Weitzman

38. Antisemitism in the Study of Ancient Judaism

Lawrence H. Schiffman

39. Zionism: A Response to Antisemitism?

Gil Troy

40. Some Traditional Jewish Perspectives on Antisemitism

Marc B. Shapiro

Biography

Mark Weitzman is Chief Operating Officer of the World Jewish Restitution Organization, the senior US delegate to the International Holocaust Remembrance Authority (IHRA), and Vice President of the Association of Holocaust Organizations (AHO).

Robert J. Williams is the CEO and Finci-Viterbi Chair of the USC Shoah Foundation, UNESCO Chair on Antisemitism and Holocaust Research, and the Advisor to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.

James Wald teaches modern European history at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

“In a more just world, we would not need a book like this one. But in the broken, flawed, real world that we inhabit, the Routledge History of Antisemitism is both morally necessary and intellectually essential. With an impressive range of topics and contributors, this volume provides a sweeping survey of antisemitism over the millenia and around the globe, and it does so in a lucid and accessible way.”

Prof. Samuel G. Freedman, Columbia Journalism School

 

“A book published in the right time, relevant to a current troubling issue is always a welcome surprise. So is the  Routledge History of Antisemitism, off the print in 2023, when antisemitism is on the rise worldwide and  the depiction of a reliable picture is sorely needed. Holding 40 well-edited essays along 400 pages, this volume offers concise, up to date eye opening information, accompanied by analysis and insight, on a wide variety of topics, written by first rate experts, each representing his or her field of expertise. Needless to say, such a collection  is indeed a most relevant contribution to any discussion of antisemitism nowadays.”

Prof. Emerita Dina Porat, Chief historian of Yad Vashem, 2010-2021, The Alfred P. Slaner Chair in Antisemitism and Racism in Tel Aviv University

 

“A crucial contribution to the field spanning the full spectrum of time and geography of the world’s most enduring hatred. From antiquity to Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party; from the Holocaust to Soviet antizionism; from the Middle East to the Baltic states; from the BDS to online hate: the tightly written essays in this volume are certain to prove an essential resource for educators, students and general public alike.”

Izabella Tabarovsky, Senior Advisor, Kennan Institute (Wilson Center)