anti-semitism in Europe

[Channalee]

This is a great book: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Jews-Antisemi...0743246209

It may be a bit late to mention it. But I recommend it to everyone.

Thanks, Baruch.  I just bought the Kindle edition on your recommendation.

I've read the book and found it keenly insightful, accurate about human nature, and applicable today. Well worth a second read.  Thanks Baruch!

I finished the book this morning.  Authors Prager and Telushkin explain the roots of antisemitism with clarity – especially in regard to many people's mistaken concept about what the term "chosen people" actually means.  That "...the Jews' chosenness confers neither privilege nor superiority, only obligation and frequent suffering..."  Those who misunderstand this concept, as being some sort of declaration of superiority, use it to fuel their Jew-hatred.
 
I especially liked not only that the authors cited, and provided sources for, historical examples of antisemitism in pagan, Christian, and Muslim society throughout the ages, but also how they debunked many of the myths about modern-day Israel that are held by antisemites. 
 
And, what I found to be most important of all:  The authors provided a concrete plan of action for combating outbreaks of antisemitism, with four points:  1. How we need to make a case against both antisemitism and anti-Zionism.  2. How American Jews, for our own sake, should not "identify with only one brand of politics."  3.  How secular American Jews "should not equate the death of religion with Jewish security."  4.  How we need to affect society's values, so that society will view antisemitism with the contempt that it warrants. 
 
The epilogue of the book speaks to non-Jews especially, explaining how antisemitism isn't only a Jewish problem. 
 
This book was a great recommendation – many thanks, Baruch and Dana!