David Nirenberg’s “brilliant, fascinating, and deeply depressing” new book, Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, is “an intellectual history of Western civilization, seen from a peculiar but frighteningly revealing perspective”. It shows how centuries of “Christian heresies, political tyrannies, medieval plagues, capitalist crises, and revolutionary movements” have been blamed upon the imaginary behaviour of “imagined Jews.”
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