- Summary
- "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.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Nirenberg, David, 1964-
- Published
- New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2013]
©2013
- Locale
- Europe
Europe, Western
- Edition
- First edition
- Contents
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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 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.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 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.
