" Antisemitisms rethinks the very nature of 'Jew hatred' with remarkable concision and clarity. Rather than treating antisemitism as a static or 'eternal' phenomenon, or trying to define or describe it, Gilman illuminates the multifaceted concept as an ever-changing, adaptive constellation of ideas, attitudes, and prejudices--each responsive to its own political and cultural moment. This pioneering study offers a nuanced, historically grounded understanding of not one antisemitism, but many antisemitisms : opportunistic, multifaceted, and shaped as responses to deeply rooted, longstanding xenophobia. With penetrating insight and elegant restraint, Gilman provides a vivid intellectual map that spans centuries--most powerfully including the time before the Holocaust--while speaking directly to the complexities of our present. Antisemitisms is an indispensable, lucid, and urgent book--essential reading for anyone interested in Israel and Palestine, the history of ideas, the rhetoric of racism and xenophobia, and the tangled legacies that define our contemporary world.".