Studies of modern antisemitism have focussed primarily on Germany as both the country where
the phenomenon is seen to have originated and where it reached its genocidal culmination in the
Holocaust. This has obscured to a certain extent the multiplicity of forms antisemitism took in
spaces considered 'peripheral' to the European 'centre'. This volume the outcome of the Simon
Wiesenthal Conference 2015 seeks to nuance such narratives by bringing to the discussion views
from the peripheries.The chapters cover a broad methodological geographical and temporal scope
showing how a plurality of modern antisemitisms became prominent in Europe's 'peripheries' -
East and South as well as in Europe's colonies - reflecting both transfers and imports of
concepts developed in the European 'centre' and specificities related to distinct developmental
paths. They engage the entanglements of modern antisemitism racism and colonialism to
explore the ideological bonds and the transmission of these political ideas and practices. The
volume thus zooms in on the multi-vector conceptual transfers that operatedbetween the centre
and the peripheries as well as on the impact of transnational contacts and social networks on
antisemitic tropes and discourses.The unifying context is that of globalisation and of a
modernisation the global feature of which was its unevenness. It was this unevenness and the
resulting co-existence incomplete overlap and constant tension between different
developmental horizons that in turn accounted forthe variety of forms antisemitism took across
space and time.
