A rigorous account of one of history's darkest tendencies, following the development of anti-Judaism across three millennia.

In this magisterial history, David Nirenberg explores anti-Judaism from antiquity to the present, from the Ancient Egyptians who resented their Jewish neighbours to the ideas of Voltaire and Marx, thereby revealing it to be a mode of thought deeply embedded in the Western tradition. With intolerance and racism on the rise across the West, the central argument of David Nirenberg's groundbreaking study – that to imagine anti-Judaism to be confined to the margins of our society is to be dangerously complacent – is as urgent and as timely as it has ever been.

"[A] truly monumental book... Full of delights... This is a book that will – and should – stop you in your tracks'" - Sunday Times

"In this remarkable book, the development of a way of thinking is traced with scholarly rigour" - The Times