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  • Published: 25 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241722909
  • Imprint: Allen Lane
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $55.00

On Antisemitism

A Word in History





What do we mean when we talk about antisemitism?

For most of history, antisemitism has been understood as a menace from Europe’s political Right, the province of blood-and-soil ethno-nativists who built on Christendom’s long-standing suspicion of its Jewish population and infused it with racist pseudo-science. Such threats culminated in the nightmare of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.

The landscape is very different now, as Mark Mazower argues in this piercingly brilliant book. More than four-fifths of the world’s Jews now live in Israel and the United States, with the former’s military dominance of its region guaranteed by the latter while the loudest voices decrying antisemitism see it coming from the Left not the Right.

Mazower clearly and carefully shows us how we got here, seeking to illuminate rather than blame. Very few words have the punch of ‘antisemitism’ and yet no term is more liable to be misunderstood in ways affecting free speech and foreign policy alike. On Antisemitism is a vitally important attempt to draw a line that must be drawn.

  • Published: 25 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241722909
  • Imprint: Allen Lane
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $55.00

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Praise for Mark Mazower's THE GREEK REVOLUTION

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With vivid detail, impeccable scholarship and great nuance, Mazower shows how the modern idea of the nation emerges out of the complex, sometimes random and often messy interactions between a plurality of agents ... An illuminating account of both the unifying power of myths about the past, and the dangers inherent when such myths are connected to political reality

Lea Ypi, New Statesman

Compelling and disturbing, enriched by many new sources and excellent colour illustrations, and paying attention to the role of Ottomans and Albanians as well as Greeks, Mazower's book will become the standard account of this crucial revolution

Philip Mansel, The Spectator
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