Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition

by David Nirenberg

Book Overview

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.

Questions of how we are Jewish and, more critically, how and why we are not have been churning within the Western imagination throughout its history. Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans; Christians and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393347915
• ISBN13: 9780393347913
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.3"