What is antisemitism?
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Jeffrey I. Israel [+]
Williams College
Jeffrey I. Israel is Associate Professor of Religion at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Description
Antisemitism is a term used to identify hostility toward Jews, Judaism, or Jewishness, or their subordination. This chapter examines the origin of the term, from the context of late-nineteenth-century European philological and racial theories and their Nazi legacy to its current uses and intellectual provocations.