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A World Without Jews
posted on February 14, 2013Adam Kirsch of Tablet reviews David Nirenberg’s new book, Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition. Through an in-depth historical study, Nirenberg concludes that Western culture is anti-Semitic at its foundation. “Anti-Judaism,” Nirenberg writes, “should not be understood as some archaic or irrational closet in the vast edifices of Western thought. It was rather one of the basic tools with which that edifice was constructed.”