Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism in European History

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This master's level seminar explores the history of ideas and feelings about Judaism-as a set of religious beliefs and cultural practices-from their first appearance in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, through the origin and spread of Christianity, the middle ages, the Spanish expulsion and Inquisition, the Enlightenment, the spread of racialist and nationalist ideas and their politicization in the nineteenth century, concluding with the persistence of Anti-Semitism in the contemporary world.