| Author |
Nirenberg, David, 1964-
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| Publication |
New York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, [2013]
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| Copyright date |
©2013 |
| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 610 pages ; 25 cm |
| Call # |
305.8924 N |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Antisemitism -- Europe -- History.
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Civilization, Western -- Jewish influences.
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Europe, Western -- Ethnic relations.
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| ISBN |
0393058247 (hardcover) : |
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9780393058246 (hardcover) |
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