Anti-Judaism : the Western tradition / David Nirenberg.

"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.

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Main Author: Nirenberg, David, 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, ©2013.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of 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.