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Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? Lessons from Medieval Interfaith Relations – By Alex J. Novikoff

August 4, 2015August 4, 2015

Alex J. Novikoff on David Nirenberg’s Neighboring Faiths Good fences make good neighbors, or so insisted Robert Frost’s curt and uncompromising neighbor in ... [Read More]

How We Choose to Write History

December 17, 2013May 22, 2014

David Nirenberg responds to the Forum on Anti-Judaism We know that “books, too, have their fates,” but all too seldom is that fate ... [Read More]

Deconstructing Anti-Semitism and Eternal Anti-Judaism

December 13, 2013May 22, 2014

Jonathan Judaken on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism is surely the most important single monograph on the history of representations of ... [Read More]

The Figure of the Jew: Anti-Judaism in the Enlightenment

December 12, 2013May 22, 2014

Jonathan M. Hess on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition Reviewing David Nirenberg’s magisterial volume is by necessity an exercise in humility. Few of us ... [Read More]

Like a Jew: Anti-Judaism in Early Islam and Medieval Iberia

December 11, 2013May 22, 2014

Jonathan P. Decter on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition Prior to Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, David Nirenberg was best known for his impressive study ... [Read More]

Anti-Judaism and Luther’s Jewish Question

December 10, 2013May 22, 2014

Debra Kaplan on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition In his 1523 treatise, That Jesus Christ was Born a Jew, Martin Luther provocatively wrote that had ... [Read More]

Anti-Judaism and Early Christianity

December 9, 2013May 22, 2014

Paula Fredriksen on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition There were recurring moments, during those nightmarish first hours of 9/11, when a strangely ... [Read More]

Judaism-Hatred vs. Jew-Hatred

December 8, 2013May 22, 2014

Moshe Rosman on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition [This review is the first of seven pieces in our forum, “His Blood Be Upon Us.” ... [Read More]

His Blood Be Upon Us: A Forum on Anti-Judaism

December 4, 2013May 22, 2014

The “problem of Judaism” in the Western Tradition Judaism has inspired a hatred that has shadowed the Jews from the ancient world to ... [Read More]

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