Title: Why the Jews? : the reason for antisemitism /
Authors: Prager, Dennis, 1948-; Telushkin, Joseph, 1948-
Publisher: Simon and Schuster,
Year: 1983
Subjects: Antisemitism History
Abstract: Argues that the causes of antisemitism are neither ethnic nor racial nor rooted in economic envy or religious bigotry, but that anitsemitism is a response to Jews and their way of life, based upon its very foundations - God, Torah, and Peoplehood.
Contents: Part One: Why the Jews? The explanation -- Why Jew-hatred is unique -- Antisemitism: The hatred of Judaism and its challenge -- The chosen people idea as a cause of antisemitism -- The higher quality of Jewish life as a cause of antisemitism -- Non-Jewish Jews and antisemitism -- Other theories of antisemitism -- Part Two: The historical evidence -- Antisemitism in the ancient world -- Christian antisemitism -- Islamic antisemitism -- Enlightenment antisemitism -- Leftist antisemitism -- Nazi antisemitism -- Anti-Zionist antisemitism -- Part Three: What is to be done? -- What is to be done? -- Epilogue; The meaning of antisemitism for non-Jews.