1st Edition

What is Antisemitism? A Contemporary Introduction

By Linda Maizels Copyright 2023
298 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Preface

Some notes on terminology

Introduction

 

Part I: Foundations

Chapter One: The Difficulty of Definitions

Chapter Two: The Onion Model

 

Part II: The Christian-Influenced World

 

Chapter Three: Judeophobia

Chapter Four: The Early Christian Church

Chapter Five: Early Medieval Christendom

Chapter Six: Medieval Christendom After the First Crusade

Chapter Seven: Spain, the Inquisition, and Purity of Blood

Chapter Eight: East and West Part I: Reformation and Enlightenment

Chapter Nine: East and West Part II: Emancipation and Revolution

Chapter Ten: East and West Part III: Modern Antisemitism

Chapter Eleven: Genocide

 

Part III: The Islamic-Influenced World

 

Chapter Twelve: Islam and the Jews

Chapter Thirteen: Antisemitism in the Arab and Muslim World

 

Part IV: All Together Now

 

Chapter Fourteen: The Postwar Era and the Final Layer

Chapter Fifteen: Antisemitism in the Twenty-First Century

Biography

Linda Maizels is an independent scholar who earned her PhD from the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.