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R R T IALS OF THE DIASPO A This page intentionally left blank R T IALS OF THE R DIASPO A a history of anti-semitism in england ANTHONY JULIUS 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwidein Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress intheUKandincertainothercountries PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork qAnthonyJulius2010 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) Firstpublished2010 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethesameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Dataavailable TypesetbySPIPublisherServices,Pondicherry,India PrintedinGreatBritain onacid-freepaperby ClaysLtd,StIvesplc ISBN 978–0–19–929705–4 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Katarina, this book is for you. This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements ix Introduction xiii PART I: CONTEXTS 1. Enmities 3 2. Defamations 69 PART II: VERSIONS 3. Medieval English Anti-Semitism 105 4. English Literary Anti-Semitism 148 5. Modern English Anti-Semitism 242 6. The Mentality of Modern English Anti-Semitism 348 7. Contemporary Secular Anti-Zionisms 441 8. Contemporary Confessional Anti-Zionisms, and a Conclusion 532 Notes 589 Extract acknowledgements 784 Index 785 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgements Earlier versions of chapters, or parts of chapters, have appeared in Paul Iganski and Barry Kosmin (eds.), A New Antisemitism? (London, 2003), in the online journal Engage, on the website <http://www.z-word.com>, andinDavidKertzer(ed.),OldDemons,NewDebates(NewYork,2005),as well as in Critical Quarterly, the Jewish Chronicle, the Times Literary Supple- ment, the London Review of Books, and the Guardian. IowespecificdebtsofgratitudetoJaneAshworth,HadassaBen-Itto,Lily Bloch, Shimon Cohen, Simon Cohen, Stan Cohen, Jonathan Cummings, Jeffrey Davis, Michael Ezra, Ofir Frankel, R. M. Ginsbury, Daniel Hoch- hauser, Jonathan Hoffman, Jenifer Howie, Oliver Kamm, Irene Lancaster, RichardLandes,NoamLeshem,JamesLibson,RobertJanVanPelt,Antony Polonsky,DanielReisner,AndrewRoberts,AnnRobinson,BillRubinstein, Paul Usiskin, and Michael Yudkin. I am particularly grateful to Todd Endelmann, Deborah Lipstadt, and Ken Stern for convening a one-day conference in NYC on my manuscript. Elena Schiff has been indefatigable on the book’s behalf. I thank her for allherworkonit;Icannotimaginecompletingitwithoutherhelp.Itwasat AndrewWylie’ssuggestionthatIstartedtothinkaboutwritingthisbook— I thank him, and Tracey Bohan too. The following read all, or some part, of the book: John H. Arnold, Jane Ashworth, Anthony Bale, Steve Bayme, Paul Bew, Marcel Borden, Ben Cohen, Nick Cohen, Deborah Dwork, Richard Evans, David Feldman, Geoffrey Field, Jonathan Freedland, Norman Geras, Sander L. Gilman, Dean Godson, Bernard Harrison, David Hirsh, Dan Jacobson, Howard Jacobson, Menachem Kellner, Michael Kotzin, Shalom Lappin, Deborah Lipstadt, Colin McCabe, Derek Penslar, David Plante, Felix Posen, Aviva Raz-Shechter, W. D. Rubinstein, Ken Stern, Michael Yudkin, and Steve Zipperstein.Theseareallverybusypeople;Iamgratefultothemfortaking the time and for offering their comments. Each one of them has improved the book.

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Trials of the Diaspora is a ground-breaking book that reveals the full history of anti-Semitism in England. Anthony Julius focuses on four distinct versions of English anti-Semitism. He begins with the medieval persecution of Jews, which included defamation, expropriation, and murder, and which culm
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