What is Antisemitism? : a contemporary introduction / Linda Maizels.

"In October 2018, a white supremacist murdered eleven Jewish worshipers and wounded six others at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the deadliest attack on Jews ever perpetrated in the United States. The gunman's motivation to kill Jews stemmed from his belief that Je...

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Main Author: Maizels, Linda (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2023]
Series:What is this thing called?
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Foundations
  • 1 The difficulty of definitions
  • 2 The onion model
  • Part II: The Christian-influenced world
  • 3 Judeophobia
  • 4 The early Christian Church
  • 5 Early medieval Christendom
  • 6 Medieval Christendom after the first Crusade
  • 7 Spain, the Inquisition, and Purity of Blood
  • 8 East and west Part I: Reformation and enlightenment
  • 9 East and west Part II: Emancipation and revolution
  • 10 East and west Part III: Modern antisemitism
  • 11 Genocide
  • Part III: The Islamic-influenced world
  • 12 Islam and the Jews
  • 13 Antisemitism in the Arab and Muslim world
  • Part IV: All together now
  • 14 The postwar era and the final layer
  • 15 Antisemitism in the twenty-first century.