'This acutely argued book will engender a thousand conversations' Cynthia OzickThe prescient
New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call exposing the alarming rise of
anti-semitism -- and explains what we can do to defeat itOn 27 October 2018 Bari Weiss's
childhood synagogue in Pittsburgh became the site of the deadliest attack on Jews in American
history. For most of us the massacre came as a total shock. But to those who have been paying
attention it was only a more violent extreme expression of the broader trend that has been
sweeping Europe and the United States for the past two decades.No longer the exclusive province
of the far right and far left anti-Semitism finds a home in identity politics in the renewal
of 'America first' isolationism and in the rise of one-world socialism. An ancient hatred
increasingly allowed into modern political discussion anti-Semitism has been migrating toward
the mainstream in dangerous ways amplified by social media and a culture of conspiracy that
threatens us all.In this urgent book New York Times writer Bari Weiss makes a powerful case
for renewing Jewish and liberal values to guide us through this uncertain moment.
