Looking for an Enemy

8 Essays on Antisemitism

Looking for an Enemy
Jo Glanville
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6 May 2021 UK
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9781780724669
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"Like all the best meetings of Jewish minds, this book will make you think, argue and see the world anew. " Hadley Freeman, author of House of GlassConspiracy theories about Jews are back in the mainstream. The Pittsburgh gunman who murdered 11 people in a synagogue claimed that ' filthy evil' Jews were bringing ' filthy evil' Muslims into America. The billionaire philanthropist George Soros has been accused of supporting ' white genocide' . Labour Party members have claimed that Israel is behind ISIS. The belief that Jews are plotting against society never dies, it just adapts to suit the times: from medieval accusations that Jews murder Christians for their blood to claims that Zionists are seeking to control the world. In eight short essays, edited by Jo Glanville, this book goes back to the source of the conspiracy theories and traces their journey into the 21st century in a bid to make sense of their survival. With contributions from some of the great Jewish writers and thinkers of our time, including Tom Segev, Jill Jacobs and Mikhail Grynberg, this is a fresh take on the roots of antisemitism that explores how an irrational belief can still flourish in a supposedly rational age.
Jo Glanville is a journalist and award-winning editor. Her writing on culture and social affairs has been published in the Guardian, London Review of Books, New York Times, the Observer, Times Literary Supplement and Financial Times among other publications. She is a contributing editor at Jewish Quarterly and is a former current affairs producer for the BBC, where she made a number of documentaries on the Holocaust and on the Middle East. She was editor of Index on Censorship and is a former director of the charity English PEN.
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ISBN-13: 9781780724669
Published: 6 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Short Books
Publisher: Short Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 204mm
Width: 132mm
Pages: 176

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