Trials of the Diaspora presents the long and troubling history of
anti-Semitism in England, from the middle ages to the twenty-first
century. Anthony Julius identifies four distinct versions of
English anti-Semitism, which he then investigates in detail. The
first is the anti-Semitism of medieval England, a radical prejudice
of defamation, expropriation, and murder, which culminated in 1290,
the year of Edward I's expulsion of the Jews from England, after
which there were no Jews left to torment. The second major strand
is literary anti-Semitism: an anti-Semitic account of Jews
continuously reappearing in English literature, from the anonymous
medieval ballad "Sir Hugh, or the Jew's Daughter" through
Shakespeare to Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, and beyond. Thirdly,
Julius addresses modern anti-Semitism, a quotidian anti-Semitism of
insult and partial exclusion, pervasive but contained, experienced
by Jews from their 'readmission' to England in the mid-17th century
through to the late 20th century. The final chapters then deal with
contemporary anti-Semitism, a new configuration of anti-Zionisms,
emerging in the late 1960s and the 1970s, which treats Zionism and
the State of Israel as illegitimate Jewish enterprises. It is this
final perspective which, in Julius's opinion, now constitutes the
greatest threat to Anglo-Jewish security and morale. This book, the
first history of its kind, has already provoked much comment and
debate in its hardback edition, coming as a timely reminder that
English culture has been in no way immune to anti-Semitism - and in
certain ways is still not to this day. The paperback edition now
includes a new preface by the author and a conclusion delineating
the main categories of anti-Semitic prejudice.
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