{"product_id":"9780691258201","title":"How the West Became Antisemitic","description":"Author: Ivan G. Marcus\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780691258201\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 18 Sep 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 384\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn examination of how the Jews  real and imagined  so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new ways.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn medieval Europe, Jews were not passive victims of the Christian community, as is often assumed, but rather were startlingly assertive, forming a Jewish civilisation within Latin Christian society. Both Jews and Christians considered themselves to be God's chosen people. These dueling claims fueled the rise of both cultures as they became rivals for supremacy. In \u003ci\u003eHow the West Became Antisemitic\u003c\/i\u003e, Ivan Marcus shows how Christian and Jewish competition in medieval Europe laid the foundation for modern antisemitism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarcus explains that Jews accepted Christians as misguided practitioners of their ancestral customs, but regarded Christianity as idolatry. Christians, on the other hand, looked at Jews themselves  not Judaism  as despised. They directed their hatred at a real and imagined Jew: theoretically subordinate, but sometimes assertive, an implacable 'enemy within'. In their view, Jews were permanently and physically Jewish  impossible to convert to Christianity. Thus Christians came to hate Jews first for religious reasons, and eventually for racial ones. Even when Jews no longer lived among them, medieval Christians could not forget their former neighbors. Modern antisemitism, based on the imagined Jew as powerful and world dominating\u003cb\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e is a transformation of this medieval hatred.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sweeping and well-documented history of the rivalry between Jewish and Christian civilisations during the making of Europe, \u003ci\u003eHow the West Became Antisemitic\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious new interpretation of the medieval world and its impact on modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46803893059742,"sku":"ADS-9780691258201","price":59.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780691258201.jpg?v=1778206887","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780691258201","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}