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She does so with impressive erudition…The product is a dazzling intellectual history, a foray into hundreds of well-known and little-known sources that, examined together, provide a comprehensive picture of the creation, dissemination, and reception of this stubbornly persistent antisemitic myth…A monumental work of scholarship likely to stand for a long time as the definitive study of this scurrilous anti-Jewish myth. -- Edward Berenson * Antisemitism Studies *\u003cbr\u003eBegins and ends on a warning note, with an attentiveness to modern-day incidents. With its wealth of archival material, \u003ci\u003eBlood Libel\u003c\/i\u003e will engage readers who are interested not only in the history of antisemitism but also in the historical and cultural contexts with which it intersects. -- Heather Blurton * H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eUnique…A detective-like reconstruction of blood libel accusations…[These are] extraordinary stories Teter reconstructs. 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This will be the definitive book on blood libel for a long time to come, equally important for readers of Jewish history and Christian history in early modern Europe. -- Larry Wolff, author of \u003ci\u003eInventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this deeply researched and meticulously argued book, Magda Teter offers the first comprehensive study of the origins and afterlife of one of the most virulent and harmful of all anti-Jewish accusations. But \u003ci\u003eBlood Libel\u003c\/i\u003e is far more than a narrative history. By highlighting the central role of printed books, broadsheets, and images in the dissemination of the libel, Teter illuminates the mechanisms by which hate can be generated, and offers a powerful and sobering lesson for our own time. -- Sara Lipton, author of \u003ci\u003eDark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Iconography\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865482703191,"sku":"9780674240933","price":32.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674240933.jpg?v=1722274180"},{"product_id":"whatever-happened-to-antisemitism-9780745338774","title":"Whatever Happened to Antisemitism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA clear-sighted exploration of how antisemitism has been politicised, and the damaging consequences of its redefinition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Nobody unpacks the confusions currently circulating around antisemitism, nor the complexities of Jewish identity, better than Antony Lerman. This elegantly written, erudite book is essential reading for all of us, whatever our identifications'\u003c\/p\u003e -- Lynne Segal, author of 'Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An urgently needed book. The contemporary debate about antisemitism is both incoherent and appalling. Faced with this hot mess, Antony Lerman offers a cool, well-reasoned, deeply learned and morally courageous meditation on what antisemitism is and isn't'\u003c\/p\u003e -- Peter Beinart, editor-at-large at 'Jewish Currents'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'We desperately need this book [...] An essential tool to understand the weaponisation of antisemitism and its dangerous impact on free speech, Palestinian rights, and the very real threat of actual antisemitism'\u003c\/p\u003e -- Rebecca Vilkomerson, former Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This important, essential book by a leading expert on antisemitism offers a nuanced history of the use and abuse of the fight against the world's oldest hatred. It powerfully unmasks the successful effort to twist the battle against antisemitism into a defense of the indefensible: Israel's subjugation of millions of people on the basis of their national and ethnic identity'\u003c\/p\u003e -- Nathan Thrall, author of 'The Only Language They Understand'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The best book I have read on why anti-Zionism has been equated with antisemitism and how the 'new antisemitism' has been mobilised for political gain'\u003c\/p\u003e -- Neve Gordon, co-author of 'The Human Right to Dominate'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements \u003cbr\u003e Acronyms and abbreviations \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e 1. Varieties of Confusion in Understandings of Antisemitism \u003cbr\u003e 2. The Use and Abuse of Antisemitic Stereotypes and Tropes \u003cbr\u003e 3. Motivated by Antisemitism? Challenges to Zionism 1975–1989 \u003cbr\u003e 4. ‘New Antisemitism’: Competing Narratives and the Consequences of Politicisation \u003cbr\u003e 5. The Development of Institutions Combatting Antisemitism 1970s–2000 \u003cbr\u003e 6. The Turning Point: ‘New Antisemitism’ and the New Millennium \u003cbr\u003e 7. The Codification of ‘New Antisemitism’: The EUMC ‘Working Definition’ \u003cbr\u003e 8. Responding to ‘New Antisemitism’: a Transnational Field of Racial Governance \u003cbr\u003e 9. The Redefinition Project and the Myth of the ‘Collective Jew’ Exposed \u003cbr\u003e 10. Human Rights: The ‘Mask Under Which the Teaching of Antisemitic Contempt for Israel is Carried Out’ \u003cbr\u003e 11. Geopolitics, Israel and the Authentication of ‘New Antisemitism’ \u003cbr\u003e 12. ‘War’ Discourse and its Limitations \u003cbr\u003e 13. ‘Jewish Power’, Medical Analogies and ‘Eradication’ Discourse \u003cbr\u003e 14. Apocalypticism: Defining the Discourse, Writing the Headlines and Generating Moral Panics \u003cbr\u003e 15. Against Typological Thinking: Summary and Conclusions \u003cbr\u003e Appendix: The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865699365207,"sku":"9780745338774","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745338774.jpg?v=1722275162"},{"product_id":"the-crisis-of-islam-holy-war-and-unholy-terror-9780753817520","title":"The Crisis of Islam Holy War and Unholy Terror","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe great scholar of Islam directly confronts the events of September 11th and the reasons behind Islamic terrorism in the modern world - a Sunday Times bestseller.","brand":"Orion Publishing Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865771094359,"sku":"9780753817520","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780753817520.jpg?v=1722275486"},{"product_id":"syrian-gulag-9780755650200","title":"Syrian Gulag","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUgur Ümit Üngör\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies, Holland. 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It makes an unimpeachable case for brutality and violence as defining attributes of the Assad regime. It is also a sobering rebuttal to those seeking the regime’s “normalization.” It should be required reading for all who have an interest in Syria, human rights, and states as perpetrators of mass violence. * Steven Heydemann, Professor, Smith College, USA *\u003cbr\u003eThis study is the first in any language to begin to map the Syrian prison archipelago. It is an urgently necessary and timely insight into the workings of Syria's Assad regime. * Anne-Marie McManus,  Principle Investigator at the ERC Project SYRASP, Germany *\u003cbr\u003eAs some European states have started forcing refugees back to Syria, this book is a grim reminder that for its unfortunate citizens, the violence preceded the use of rockets and barrel bombs, and the threat to their life remains undiminished. What makes this book invaluable is its panoramic picture of Syria’s vast repressive apparatus that the uprising failed to dislodge. What makes this book frightening is that unlike Dante, who had to use his prodigious imagination to describe hell, the hell described herein comes from the direct experience of survivors who lived through its various circles of torment. In painstaking detail, Jaber Baker and Ugur Ümit Üngör have mapped the hellish institutions, sites, and methods through which the Syrian regime has preserved its rule by extinguishing hope and humanity. And through meticulous documentation they’ve also created an instrument through which the perpetrators may one day be held to account. * Dr. Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, Director of Journalism, University of Essex, UK *\u003cbr\u003eSyria's dungeons have long kept its secrets; places so foreboding and cruel that few dared mention what happens inside them. The war has changed that. Once taboo topics are now being discussed far from the broken country, where former prisoners now in exile are detailing a killing and torture machine that rivals the Khmer Rouge for the scale of its savagery. In \u003ci\u003eSyrian Gulag\u003c\/i\u003e, Üngör and Baker open the gates of one of modern history's most infamous prison systems and empower a brutalised people to tell their stories. * Martin Chulov, Middle East Correspondent, The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1. Mezze: Political Elites and Incarceration 2. Intelligence Bureaus 3. Tadmur 4. The First Military Prison: Saydnaya 5. Civil Prisons for Justice and Reconciliation 6. 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The true stories captured in these pages will inspire your faith and awaken your heart to the powerful move of God happening among women in the Middle East. Make no mistake, the church is alive and unstoppable!' --Bryson Vogeltanz, president and CEO, Partners International; and Emily Vogeltanz\u003cbr\u003e'Disillusioned with flat Christianity? Wondering if God still does miracles? Afraid your life can't make an impact? Then this is the book for you. Women Who Risk is a peek behind the veil to the personal battles and miraculous movements of the spiritual warriors of our day. These new Jesus followers, and their real-life stories of vulnerability, faith, challenge, and courage, will not only inspire your own spiritual journey but also help you see the God who sees you.' --Kadi Cole, leadership consultant, executive coach, and author, Developing Female Leaders\u003cbr\u003e'Eye-opening, awe-inspiring, praise-evoking--Women Who Risk is an exhilarating peek behind the veil to see how, despite the danger, Jesus is reaching and empowering Muslim women to live for him. Let our friends, Tom and JoAnn, take you on an exhilarating journey of discovery that will enrich your faith and encourage your soul. You'll be riveted and enthralled by these astounding stories!' --Lee and Leslie Strobel, authors, Spiritual Mismatch and The Case for Christ\u003cbr\u003e'For many years we have read books aloud together in the evenings. Among the very best and most edifying have been the works of Tom Doyle. But with the release of Women Who Risk, Tom, now joined by JoAnn, have outdone themselves. The book reads like an adventure novel--fast-paced, intriguing, spiritually edifying, and faith building. We couldn't put it down.' --J. P. Moreland, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University; and Hope Moreland\u003cbr\u003e'Heartbreaking and inspiring, Women Who Risk unveils the incredible stories that are currently happening in the Muslim world. Women are meeting Jesus in unprecedented numbers and in supernatural ways. Warning: This book is a page-turner that will grip your heart and blow your mind. It reads like the Acts of the Apostles. God is great!' --Jim Tomberlin, author; merger specialist, The Unstuck Group; and chief of staff, Christ Fellowship, Miami, Florida; and Deryl Tomberlin\u003cbr\u003e'I love the stories in this book--many of which brought tears to my eyes--as they are snapshots of what God is doing among the Muslim women in the Middle East today. Jesus is pouring His special grace on Muslim women because He came to set the captives free, and in Islam, it is the women who are oppressed and treated as slaves. The greatest weapon we have against the dark spirit of Islam is love.' --Hormoz Shariat, president, Iran Alive Ministries; and Donnell Shariat\u003cbr\u003e'Jesus is rescuing women in the Muslim world! Their beautifully told stories will encourage your own faith and leave you in awe at the Savior who is unwilling that any--including those shackled in the bondage of Islam--should perish (2 Pet. 3:9).' --Todd Nettleton, radio host, The Voice of the Martyrs; and Charlotte Nettleton, Wesleyan Christian School\u003cbr\u003e'Like war correspondents, Tom and JoAnn Doyle report from behind enemy lines about the spiritual combat conditions we, who live under a Declaration of Independence, cannot comprehend. Women Who Risk is not fiction. These are all real-life stories that have been lived out in the midst of savage brutality and unmitigated evil. There is a higher battle than the ones played out in the Middle East today. It's a battle for human souls. Here is wrenching fear and pain transformed to ecstatic joy, a gritty, compelling account of our world God calls us Christians to confront with His transforming power.' --Jeanne Hendricks, speaker, author, and wife of the late Dr. Howard Hendricks\u003cbr\u003e'My heart was gripped to read the stories of women in the Middle East who, facing desperate situations, are utterly transformed by Jesus. If it can happen to them, then there is hope for any relationship here! Open these pages and enter a world where God's power is on display in astounding ways!' --Bruce Peppin, author, The Best is Yet to Be, and speaker, Finishing Life Well; and Kathleen Peppin\u003cbr\u003e'No couple has inspired us more than Tom and JoAnn Doyle as they fearlessly and faithfully walk side-by-side into the darkest places on earth. All to share Christ with those who desperately need to hear it and in places no one else has dared to go. Their riveting stories will open your eyes to the pain and ignite your passion to join Christ in His mighty work of saving, healing, and loving the Muslim world.' --Jason Elam, special ambassador, Bible translation, Seed Company, and former NFL kicker; and Tamy Elam, advocate, Seed Company\u003cbr\u003e'The stories in this book have broken my heart, put tears on my face, and pressed me to my knees in prayer for women who have risked everything to follow Jesus. Their steadfast faith when facing death, their strength to endure abuse, their courage to bear witness of the Truth, and their sheer joy in Jesus make them women to emulate. Read this, and you will love Jesus more and be filled with gratitude that He loves you, and me, and women everywhere. Thank you, Tom and JoAnn Doyle, for these incredible, jaw-dropping stories.' --Anne Graham Lotz, author, Jesus In Me\u003cbr\u003e'This book is a powerful portrait of spiritual heroism. Tom and JoAnn Doyle have woven together incredibly impacting true stories of women in the Middle East, women whose courageous walk of faith is a testament to the resurrection power of the Savior who has changed their lives. It also illustrates profoundly how Christ cares about women, and cares infinitely.' --Craig Parshall, New York Times bestselling author and senior vice president, National Religious Broadcasters; and Janet Parshall, radio host, nationally syndicated In the Market\u003cbr\u003e'Tom and JoAnn are a dynamic team in every way! Their love and passion for Jesus and for each other overflow into every life whom God places in their path. You, too, will be touched as you read the engaging stories of real-life women who are also bringing Christ's light into the dark world of Islam.' --Mike and Cheri Fitzsimmons, founders, Morningstar Transformational Tours\u003cbr\u003e'Tom and JoAnn Doyle are courageous, Holy Spirit--filled Christians with a willingness to brave dangerous circumstances, risk personal safety, and lay down their lives for those to whom they minister. I deeply appreciate their dedication to both Muslims and the Jewish people, bringing them the message of God's love through Jesus the Messiah. This book will advance your understanding and prayer burden for some of the most marginalized and imperiled believers in the world.' --Mitch Glaser, president, Chosen People Ministries; and Zhava Glaser\u003cbr\u003e'Tom and JoAnn not only have the pulse of the Middle East; they care deeply for women. How might we see a movement of God through war and famine? 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We need to see and hear and reach out as they do, with Jesus' heart.' --Ray Bentley, pastor, Maranatha Chapel; and Vicki Bentley\u003cbr\u003e'Women Who Risk is an inspiring, challenging peek inside the real world of some of Tom and JoAnn's friends who know 'the cost of discipleship' very few of us in America will ever have to consider. This book will change the way you think about giving your life away and lead you to be willing to pay a greater price in following Jesus regardless of the cost!' --Todd Peterson, former NFL kicker; chairman, Pro Athletes Outreach; chairman emeritus, Seed Company; and board member, Passion City Church; and Susan Peterson, founder and CEO, Relish and Cabell's Designs, and board trustee, Young Life\u003cbr\u003e'Women Who Risk is your chance to walk through some of the world's most challenging places with JoAnn and Tom Doyle. Their riveting accounts are of bold women whom Jesus has met through their dreams, visions, and miracles. This book is a powerful read that will stretch your faith and inspire you to live with courage for the kingdom.' --Bob Shank, founder and CEO, The Master's Program; and Cheri Shank, special events and women's program, The Master's Program\u003cbr\u003e'Women Who Risk reads like pages from a modern-day book of Acts, with twists and turns at every corner. The testimonies grab the heart, fascinate our faith, and challenge the very core of our Christianity. These stories are crucial for this hour in history, a time of global unrest and uncertainty. These sisters and brothers are models of the saints who depend on the trustworthy lordship of Jesus, His love, God's supernatural power, and miracles. God will use this book to transform your life, turning your heart to repentance, gratitude, and compassion.' --Joshua Lingel, president, Mission Muslim World University and i2 Ministries; and Sara Lingel\u003cbr\u003e'Women Who Risk revolves around two incredible truths. 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Across societies and throughout history, defending or contesting principles of religious freedom has required compromise among multiple interests, balancing values, and wrangling with the law.   Drawing on examples from the United States and around the world, and approaching the subject from the disciplines of history, law, sociology, philosophy, religious studies, and political science, the essays in this volume illustrate these challenges. They sketch the contours of contemporary debates while showing how the landscape of religious freedom has shifted over time. They consider various stakeholders that have asserted competing claims, among them individuals and groups; members of minority and majority c\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Landscape of Religious Freedom\u003cbr\u003e Heather J. Sharkey and Jeffrey Edward Green\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Ethical Arguments\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. 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Bedross Der Matossian offers a thorough inquiry into the perpetrators, victims, bystanders, and social-political context, useful to all those interested in understanding processes of mass violence.\"—Jacques Semelin, Sciences Po Paris, author of \u003ci\u003ePurify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With \u003ci\u003eThe Horrors of Adana\u003c\/i\u003e, the Adana Massacres get their own story, a story that needs telling. 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The introduction alone is a tour de force... The author's detailed micro level analysis of the actions and reactions of perpetrators, bystander, and victims – who fight back, outnumbered and outgunned – is dispassionate, evenhanded, and yet reads like a thriller.\"—Matthias Bjørnlund, \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By analyzing the structure of violence from various perspectives, Professor Der Matossian was able to bring attention to the spiral of violence that occurred in Adana while explaining the multi-faceted, complex phenomenon of massacre and violence.\"—Natalie Agazarian, \u003ci\u003eHye Sharzhoom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Horrors of Adana\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich work on an episode which has never before been investigated so closely.... Even for readers new to the region and its history, the nuanced and multi-layered presentation of this complex time period is engaging. 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[...] [It is an] antidote for those who had any doubt of the inequality, desperation and injustice that characterises how the world treats refugees: silencing their voices and thereby making it easier to degrade them, and even ignore mounting death tolls.' -- Sally Hayden, The Irish Times\u003cbr\u003e'In prose that brims with empathy and humanity, Ahmed zooms in on individual lives to explain the breadth of this people's struggles.' -- Prospect\u003cbr\u003e'An in-depth exploration of the Rohingya in exile, their exploitation, quests for justice, and the apparent failures of world bodies such as the United Nations to protect them.' -- Al Jazeera\u003cbr\u003e'Deeply moving.' -- Nikkei Asia\u003cbr\u003e'An impressive mix of history, political analysis and extensive reportage from Myanmar, Bangladesh and Malaysia... 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The book lends a much-needed voice to the world's most silenced people.' -- Asia Sentinel\u003cbr\u003e‘An extraordinary – and depressing – picture of the Rohingya’s recent history … One book cannot solve the problem, but this one will help the reader understand it at the human level.’ -- Survival\u003cbr\u003e'This book goes to the heart of the eternal and under-reported suffering of the Rohingya. Forced out of what once was Burma and now is Myanmar, most are in exile in Bangladesh and beyond. An important story of our times.' -- Jon Snow\u003cbr\u003e'This book paints a deep, complicated and appalling picture: of one million people who have fled danger but now face immense risks from those they thought would protect them. While documenting the harm done by the UN and the Bangladeshi state, Ahmed humanises those normally dehumanised--the refugees.' -- Aditya Chakrabortty, 'The Guardian'\u003cbr\u003e'A haunting and poetic, yet incisive and grounded, account of the tragedies that have befallen the Rohingya, of the realities of a people living almost entirely in exile, and of their struggles to maintain dignity and hope in the face of persecution and betrayal.' -- Kenan Malik, author, broadcaster and 'Observer' columnist\u003cbr\u003e'\"I Feel No Peace\" is a tender, forensic, harrowing and beautifully human portrait of the Rohingya, a people persecuted beyond measure. Ahmed has produced an exceptional work of journalism which promises to inspire change for the better.' -- Musa Okwonga, author, podcaster and musician\u003cbr\u003e'This is a remarkable and vivid testament to the results of Myanmar's genocide of the Rohingya. 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Mills, author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Rights\/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the post-World War II era, Jews, many of them the children of immigrants, moved into a prominent place in the production of the nation's popular culture and sought to make sense of their relationship with the many other kinds of Americans with whom they shared their society. Drawing on a deep and nuanced understanding of this history, Jeffrey Israel makes a compelling case for the importance of play in allowing Americans to live together. -- Hasia Diner, author of \u003ci\u003eWe Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945–1962\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeffrey Israel has written an amazing book. He wants us to love America in a distinctly political register that ties our individual flourishing to the flourishing of every compatriot. Political love is essential to realizing the promise of justice. But he knows that political love must live alongside historically rooted animosities that deeply divide us. Israel squares this apparent circle with \u003ci\u003eplay.\u003c\/i\u003e In play, we give full-throated voice to our animosities: we engage them, with no thought of transcending them. Seems too good to be true? 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Mills, author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Rights\/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the post-World War II era, Jews, many of them the children of immigrants, moved into a prominent place in the production of the nation's popular culture and sought to make sense of their relationship with the many other kinds of Americans with whom they shared their society. Drawing on a deep and nuanced understanding of this history, Jeffrey Israel makes a compelling case for the importance of play in allowing Americans to live together. -- Hasia Diner, author of \u003ci\u003eWe Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945–1962\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeffrey Israel has written an amazing book. He wants us to love America in a distinctly political register that ties our individual flourishing to the flourishing of every compatriot. Political love is essential to realizing the promise of justice. 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Lorenzo Vidino marshals unique interviews with prominent former members and associates of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West, shedding light on why and how people join and leave the organization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLorenzo Vidino is a distinguished scholar of the Muslim Brotherhood. In \u003ci\u003eThe Closed Circle\u003c\/i\u003e, he provides the invaluable service of letting those who have left the movement speak for themselves. What they say should enlighten and alarm anyone who thinks the Brotherhood is moderate, a firewall against extremism, or genuinely committed to democratic pluralism. Policy makers need to read it—and then read it again. -- Sir John Jenkins, head of the 2014 United Kingdom government review of the Muslim Brotherhood\u003cbr\u003eVidino's interviews reveal a patient organization that markets itself as moderate but sometimes acts like a sinister and dangerous cult. The Brotherhood requires subtle analysis, and Vidino provides just that—neither overstating its threat nor accepting its claims to be a benign fraternal order. An essential contribution to our understanding of Islamism in the West. -- Graeme Wood, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is the first of its kind. Well-conceived and highly original, \u003ci\u003eThe Closed Circle\u003c\/i\u003e provides a new analytical framework for thinking about and conceptualizing the reasons for why people have chosen to leave the Muslim Brotherhood. -- Shiraz Maher, author of \u003ci\u003eSalafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFew are as qualified as Lorenzo Vidino to unpack the Muslim Brotherhood in the West. In \u003ci\u003eThe Closed Circle,\u003c\/i\u003e he takes us into the life stories of actual members, their trajectories within the organization, and provides unique insights into the mechanisms of joining and leaving this secretive Islamist organization. It is absolutely essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the complexities of the largest Islamist movement in the West, where it is heading, and the major challenges ahead for Western liberal democracies. -- Magnus Ranstorp, Swedish Defence University\u003cbr\u003eA meticulously researched and elegantly written book that goes behind the smoke screen to offer unique insights into an extraordinarily complex and deliberately elusive organization through carefully assembled vignettes of a heterogeneous group of members who journeyed from wide-eyed attraction to wistful disillusionment with the Brotherhood. -- Hazem Kandil, Cambridge University\u003cbr\u003eLorenzo Vidino is one of the leading experts on the Muslim Brotherhood in the West, and this latest volume is an important addition to the academic literature on the character and evolution of the Brotherhood, especially outside the Middle East—a subject of enduring significance for academic and policy-making communities. -- Martyn Frampton, Queen Mary University of London\u003cbr\u003eOffers a new analytical framework for conceptualizing the reasons why people have chosen to join and leave the largest Islamist movement in the West...Recommended. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e1. 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Birnbaum asks readers to contemplate a sea change that seems to be happening in American life, which portends that antisemitism, once absent from the political realm, may be now rearing its ugly head. His history of fringe antisemitism in the American past is well worth reading as we contemplate both present and future. -- Hasia R. Diner, author of\u003ci\u003eImmigration: An American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the leading Jewish historian in France, Birnbaum offers a French perspective on Jewish-American history that compares American antisemitism to its European counterpart. In the process, he calls many myths—including that of American exceptionalism—into question. 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[A] well-balanced and exemplary book.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stunning objectivity and deep understanding of three distinct and different religious ideologies is clear throughout the narrative.\"--\u003ci\u003eHistory Teacher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Each essay shines both in its readability and its effectiveness . . . . A powerful volume of history that reinforces an ongoing reassessment of historical views of the American West and the whole notion of American religious freedom.\"--\u003ci\u003eUtah Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A useful survey of scholarly knowledge. . . . 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