His Blood Be Upon Us: A Forum on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism

Judaism has inspired a hatred that has shadowed the Jews from the ancient world to the present day. Tracing the length of this poisonous trail, David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition reveals how religious, political, and cultural figures across millennia re-imagined the “problem of Judaism” to suit the needs of their times, regardless of the number or significance of the Jews in their midst. Ambitious in its scope and scale, Anti-Judaism invites debate and discussion. The contributors to this forum, specialists in different historical periods and geographical spaces, will offer some of the first focused responses to this sophisticated study. One review will appear each day beginning December 8th, and David Nirenberg’s response to the collection will be published the following week.

Simon Rabinovitch

Adam Mendelsohn

Nina Caputo

W.W. Norton & Co., 2013

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Contributors

Judaism-Hatred vs. Jew-Hatred,

Moshe Rosman, Bar Ilan University

Anti-Judaism and Early Christianity,

Paula Fredriksen, Hebrew University, Boston University

Anti-Judaism and Luther’s Jewish Question,

Debra Kaplan, Yeshiva University

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

Jonathan P. Decter, Brandeis University

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

Jonathan M. Hess, University of North Carolina

Deconstructing Anti-Semitism and Eternal Anti-Judaism,

Jonathan Judaken, Rhodes College

How We Choose to Write History,

David Nirenberg, University of Chicago