This volume provides a compendium of the history of and discourse about antisemitism - both as a unique cultural and religious category. Antisemitic stereotypes function as religious symbols that express and transmit a belief system of Jew-hatred, which are stored in the cultural and religious memories of the Western and Muslim worlds, migrating freely between Christian, Muslim and other religious symbolic systems.

Armin Lange and Kerstin Mayerhofer, Vienna, Austria, Dina Porat, Tel Aviv, Israel, and Lawrence Schiffman, New York, U.S.A.