The Medieval Roots of Antisemitism: Continuities and Discontinuities from the Middle Ages to the Present Day

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Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	1 Volcanic Archives: Towards a Direct Comparison of Pre-Modern and Modern Forms of Antisemitism
Part I Longest Hatred versus Invented Tradition
	2 The Medieval (and Ancient) Roots of Antisemitism
	3 The Making of Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century Europe as an Invention of Tradition
	4 What Is Antisemitism Like? An Analogical Approach
Part II Antisemitism without Jews
	5 Reception of Medieval European Anti-Jewish Concepts in Late Medieval and Early Modern Norway
	6 The Imitation Game? Japanese Attitudes towards Jews in Modern Times
Part III Christianity and Antisemitism
	7 The Role of Medieval Northern Europe in Generating Virulent Anti-Jewish Imagery
	8 Between Anti- and Another Modernity: Anti-Judaism, the Imaginary Jew, and Catholic Antisemitism in Fin-de-Siècle Poland (1880–1914)
	9 The Gospel According to Gibson: Medieval Passion Plays, a Mean-Spirited Nun, and What One Movie Can Tell Us about Jewish-Christian Relations at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
Part IV Islam and Antisemitism
	10 Narrating Antisemitism in Historical and Contemporary Turkey
	11 Arab Antisemitic Discourse: Importation, Internalisation, and Recycling
Part V Bodies, Gender, and Antisemitism
	12 What’s in a Nose? The Origins, Development, and Influence of Medieval Anti-Jewish Caricature
	13 Jewish Bodies in Postcards and Street Art: Changes in Anti-Jewish Visual Polemics
	14 Masculinities, Carnal Israel, and Antisemitisms
Part VI Blood Libel and Ritual Murder Allegations
	15 The Ritual Murder Accusation as Medieval Invention: Linking Libels and Boy Martyrs
	16 Norwich 1144: Origins and Afterlives
	17 A Rational Model for Blood Libel: The Aftonbladet Affair
Part VII Neighbours
	18 “. . . and order was upset”: Easter, the Eucharist, and the Jews of Prague, 1389
	19 Towards 1391: The Anti-Jewish Preaching of Ferrán Martínez in Seville
	20 “The present causes of past effects”: The Background Beliefs of the Kielce Pogrom (4 July 1946)
Part VIII Economy and Finance
	21 Jewish Usurers, Blood Libel, and the Second-Hand Economy: The Medieval Origins of a Stereotype (from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century)
	22 The Deeper the Roots, the Deadlier the Antisemitism? Comparing Images of Jewish Financial Control in Modern Germany and the United States
Part IX Land and Home
	23 The Theology of the Land in Jewish-Christian Relations and Its Role in Misunderstandings between Jews and Christians
	24 Yearning for Zion in Jewish Tradition
	25 Between Eternity and Wandering: The Anti-Jewish Discourse on the Wandering Jew in the Long Nineteenth Century in Germany and Austria
Part X Medieval Roots and Anti-Judaism
	26 Europe, Christianity, Violence, and Jew-Hatred
	27 Postface
	28 Which Past for Which Present? A Reply to Carlo Ginzburg’s “Postface” on Anti-Judaism
Contributors
Index