[This book] brings together a collection of powerful essays about the origin and nature of the new anti-Semitism ... [It] is an essential volume for understanding the new bigotry of the twenty-first century.-Back cover.
Something has changed. After the horrors of World War II, people everywhere believed that it could never happen again, but today the evidence is unmistakable that anti-Semitism is dramatically on the rise once more. The torching of European synagogues, suicide terror in Israel, …
"Based on travel writings, religious history and popular literature, 'Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination' explores the encounter between English travellers and the Jews. While literary and religious traditions created an image of Jews as untrustworthy, even sinister, t…
Discusses the contemporary Polish self-concept in the shadow of wartime and postwar antisemitism, pointing to the existence of an antisemitic concept of the enemy which relies on the nexus of Jews and communism (the "Żydokomuna"), and which is considered as the counter-point to …
In spite of growing globalisation there remains in the world a split between the West & the rest. Jalmar & Penslar argue that orientalism is based on the Christian West's attempts to understand its relations with both its monotheistic others - Muslims & Jews.
In spite of growing globalisation there remains in the world a split between the West & the rest. Jalmar & Penslar argue that orientalism is based on the Christian West's attempts to understand its relations with both its monotheistic others - Muslims & Jews.