This is the first book to examine the relationship between European Antisemitism and Islamophobia from the Crusades until the twenty-first century in the principal flashpoints of the two racisms.
Much previous scholarship and public discussion has focused on comparing European ideas about Jews and Judaism in the past with contempo.
With case studies ranging from the Balkans to the UK, the contributors take the debate away from politicised polemics about whether or not Muslims are the new Jews.
This is the first book to examine the relationship between European Antisemitism and Islamophobia from the Crusades until the twenty-first century in the principal flashpoints of the two racisms