The Changing Face of Antisemitism

<h2><span style=background-color: rgba(233 234 235 1); color: rgba(0 33 71 1)>Description</span></h2><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>For thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London-the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism-Walter Laqueur here offers both a comprehensive history of anti-Semitism as well as an illuminating look at the newest wave of this phenomenon.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>Laqueur begins with an invaluable historical account of this pernicious problem tracing the evolution from a predominantly religious anti-Semitism-stretching back to the middle ages-to a racial anti-Semitism that developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The author then uses this historical account as backdrop to a brilliant analysis of the newest species of anti-Semitism explaining its origins and rationale how it manifests itself in what ways and why it is different from anti-Semitism in past ages and what forms it may take in the future. The book reveals that what was historically a preoccupation of Christian and right-wing movements has become in our time even more frequent among Muslims and left-wing groups. Moreover Laqueur argues that we can't simply equate this new anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism and write it off as merely anti-Israel sentiments. If Israel alone is singled out for heated condemnation is the root of this reaction simply anti-Zionism or is it anti-Semitism?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>Here is both a summing up of the entire trajectory of anti-Semitism-the first comprehensive history of its kind-and an exploration of the new wave of anti-Semitism.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>Walter Laqueur provides us with powerful new insights into an age-old problem. Distinguished scholarship and an authoritative moral voice are the hallmarks of this important book. Anyone wanting to understand the history and persistence of anti-Jewish hatred should read it.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>-Abraham H. Foxman National Director Anti-Defamation League</span></p>