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Is there a common denominator to be found between the Jew-hatred of antiquity and the antisemitism of modern times? Is antisemitism essentially constant and timeless or has it changed over the centuries? This book presents a collection of essays addressing these questions throughout the totality of Jewish history: in antiquity and in the Middle Ages, in the Christian world and in the Muslim countries, and particularly in the twentieth century. It examines and assesses not only the various forms and manifestations of antisemitism in history but also the diverse interpretations which have been placed upon it by contemporaries and historians.
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The tone of the book is calm and dispassionate, although the sentiments of the authors could not have been. As befits work emanating from a university the style is scholarly... There is no doubt about the general validity of the volume; it substantially adds to knowledge... Indeed for future work in this area this volume will prove a useful source and is to be welcomed on that account.
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There is, however, little doubt that this collection will represent an important addition to the book shelves of those interested in the history of their people.
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An excellent attempt by historians to review Jewish-gentile relations through the ages under the rubric of 'antisemitism' can be found in the volume edited by Shmuel Almog...the essays are tight and informative and, moreover, go beyond the specific thesis implied in the book's title. Still, taken as a whole, the volume may channel the reader into a potential, narrow lineal view on the rise of anti-Jewism hostility, namely that antisemitism has existed as a background undercurrent throughout the last two millenia, primarily in the Christian West but mutatis mutandis in the Islamic orbit as well. Such a perception is problematic in that prejudgment of any action against Jews as antisemitic is historically inaccurate because it obscures or ignores the overall historical context. As John Gager pointed out recently (The Origins of Anti-Semitism, Oxford, 1983), for every source that is negative about Jews in the ancient world there are as many that are positive, if not merely indifference. Hence, any study of Jewish-gentile relations that stresses hostility to Jews and animosity to Judaism in any given society needs to investigate and develop the phiel-Semitic tendencies contemporary to the anti-Semitic ones.
American Jewish History
Bernard Rechter
...a factual, scholarly introduction...by a range of distinguished writers...into the history of Jew hatred, ranging in time from ancient Rome to the contemporary scene.
The Australian Jewish News
New Community
There is, however, little doubt that this collection will represent an important addition to the book shelves of those interested in the history of their people.
Jewish Book News & Reviews
An excellent attempt by historians to review Jewish-gentile relations through the ages under the rubric of 'antisemitism' can be found in the volume edited by Shmuel Almog...the essays are tight and informative and, moreover, go beyond the specific thesis implied in the book's title. Still, taken as a whole, the volume may channel the reader into a potential, narrow lineal view on the rise of anti-Jewism hostility, namely that antisemitism has existed as a background undercurrent throughout the last two millenia, primarily in the Christian West but mutatis mutandis in the Islamic orbit as well. Such a perception is problematic in that prejudgment of any action against Jews as antisemitic is historically inaccurate because it obscures or ignores the overall historical context. As John Gager pointed out recently (The Origins of Anti-Semitism, Oxford, 1983), for every source that is negative about Jews in the ancient world there are as many that are positive, if not merely indifference. Hence, any study of Jewish-gentile relations that stresses hostility to Jews and animosity to Judaism in any given society needs to investigate and develop the phiel-Semitic tendencies contemporary to the anti-Semitic ones.
American Jewish History
Bernard Rechter
...a factual, scholarly introduction...by a range of distinguished writers...into the history of Jew hatred, ranging in time from ancient Rome to the contemporary scene.
The Australian Jewish News
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Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism The Hebrew University of Jerusalem by Pergamon Press, Oxford
(1988)
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Book Description Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, glossy paper covered boards, xii, 419 pp., b/w illustrations, index, about the contributors, a few ink-stamps, soiling to the rear free endpaper Translated into English by Nathan N. Reisner. Preface by the editor. Articles are "Jew-hatred in its historical context," Shmuel Ettinger, "Antisemitism in Rome," Menahem Stern, "The sages' reaction to antisemitism in the Hellenistic-Roman world," Moshe David Herr, "The Church fathers and the Jews in writings designed for internal and external use," David Roke ah, "Hatred of the Jews or love of the Church : papal policy toward the Jews in the Middle Ages," Kenneth R. Stow, "The devil and the Jews in the Christian consciousness of the Middle Ages," Robert Bonfil, "The state, the church, and the Jews in Medieval England," Zefira Entin Roke ah, "Pablo de Santa Maria on the events of 1391," Michael Glatzer, "The "Black Death" and antisemitism," Mordechai Breuer, "Jews and Judaism in the social thought of Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries," Joseph Kaplan, "Jew-hatred in the Islamic tradition and the Koranic exegesis," Haggai Ben-Shammai, "The economic and social background of hostile attitudes toward the Jews in the ninth and tenth century Muslim caliphate," Avraham Grossman, "Blood libels" in the Ottoman Empire of the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries," Jacob Barnai, "Antisemitism and economic influence: the Jews of Morocco (1672-1822)," Shalom Bar-Asher, "Anti-Zionist and Anti-Jewish ideology in the Arab Nationalist movement in Palestine," Yehoshua Porath, "On Arab antisemitism once more," Yehoshafat Harkabi, "From radicalism to antisemitism," Moshe Zimmermann, "The racial motif in Renan's attitude to Jews and Judaism," Shmuel Almog, "The preparatory stage of the modern antisemitic movement (1873-1879)," Jacob Katz, "The Dreyfus Affair and the Jews," Richard I. Cohen, "The two continuities of antisemitism in the United States," Lloyd P. Gartner, "Argentina: a case study in dimensions of government antisemitism," Haim Avni, "Hungarian antisemitism: ideology and reality (1920-1943)," Nathaniel Katzburg, "On the character of Nazi antisemitism," Yisrael Gutman, "Antisemitism in Western Europe," Yehuda Bauer, "From overt philosemitism to discreet antisemitism and beyond: anti-Jewish developments in the political culture of the Federal Republic of Germany," Frank Stern. Seller Inventory # 81891
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