History and Nature of Anti-Semitism

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This course provides an overview of the history of anti-Semitism from antiquity through the contemporary world. It examines the intellectual underpinnings of tolerance and intolerance in the key civilizations where Jews resided, discrimination against Jews, and eruptions of anti-Jewish violence. It will also examine historiographical debates regarding specific manifestations of Jew hatred and the evaluation of both the term 'anti-Semitism' and the phenomenon as a whole.