Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition

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 Muslims of every period; even the secularists of modernity have used Judaism in constructing their visions of the world. The thrust of this tradition construes Judaism as an opposition, a danger often from within, to be criticized, attacked, and eliminated. The intersections of these ideas with the world of power--the Roman destruction of the Second Temple, the Spanish Inquisition, the German Holocaust--are well known. The ways of thought underlying these tragedies can be found at the very foundation of Western history.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/03/2014
ISBN: 9780393347913
Pages: 610
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.35h x 5.46w x 1.09d