What Is Antisemitism?

What is Antisemitism? offers a history of anti-Jewish animosity from antiquity to the present - including a discussion of the difficulties of defining antisemitism and three case studies illustrating the diverse and wide-ranging nature of the phenomenon in the present-day.

Introduction, 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