Antisemitism has a long history in Britain [View all]
Antisemitism in the British isles has a long and inglorious history, preceding the expulsion of Jews from Britain in 1290.
Anthony Julius, a London-based lawyer, has immersed himself in this age-old topic and written a weighty tome on it. In Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Antisemitism in England (Oxford University Press), he explores this phenomenon by examining four varieties of Jew hatred.
The first variety, the antisemitism of defamation, expropriation, murder and expulsion, climaxed in the medieval era.
The second kind, literary antisemitism, reeks in the pages of literature down through the ages.
The modern antisemitism of insult and partial exclusion has been experienced by Jews since their readmission to Britain in the mid-17th century.
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