Anti-Semitism

Dan Cohn-Sherbok

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2009
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9780752469324
• Subtopic: Discrimination & Race Relations
• Index: Social Sciences

Tracing the origins and manifestations of anti-Semitism, this chronicle illustrates how this form of discrimination has featured in the history of Western civilization for more than 3,000 years. Against a background of intolerance and condemnation, this reconstruction describes Jewish emancipation from the late 18th century and its gradual transformation into the parallel political and nationalistic ideal of Zionism. A unique exploration of the origins of Arab and organized communist anti-Semitism as well as Nazi racism is also included. From political opposition and racial persecution to religious and philosophical justification for some of history's most outrageous acts, this shocking examination reveals that what the 20th century has seen through the lens of the holocaust is only the beginning.

Table of contents

• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• One: Jews in the Ancient World
• Two: Judaeophobia in the New Testament
• Three: The Early Church and Anti-Judaism
• Four: Medieval Anti-Judaism
• Five: The Demonic Stereotype of the Jew
• Six: Jew-hatred in Western Europe
• Seven: The Jews in Spain
• Eight: Marranos
• Nine: Eastern European Anti-Semitism
• Ten: The Early Modern Period
• Eleven: The Enlightenment
• Twelve: Jewish Emancipation
• Thirteen: Anti-Semitism in the Nineteenth Century
• Fourteen: Jewry in Nineteenth-century Germany, France and Russia
• Fifteen: The Early Twentieth Century
• Sixteen: Anti-Semitism and Zionism
• Seventeen: The Rise of Nazism
• Eighteen: The Holocaust
• Nineteen: Anti-Semitism in the Postwar Period
• Twenty: Modern Arab Jew-hatred
• Select Bibliography