This Week's Acquisitions
- David Nirnberg, Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition (Norton, 2013). History of anti-Jewish thought from antiquity to the modern world. The title distinguishes Nirnberg's subject from what he classes as the strictly modern concept of antisemitism, which emerged in the 19th c.; he is studying "a category, a set of ideas and attributes with which non-Jews can make sense of and criticize their world" (3).