{"product_id":"antisemitism-an-american-tradition-pamela-s-nadell","title":"Preorder: Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Pamela S. Nadell | OUT Oct 27, 2026","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the National Jewish Book Award for American Jewish Studies\u003cbr\u003eA Wall Street Journal “Book to Read”\u003cbr\u003eOne of Hadassah Magazine’s Best Jewish Nonfiction Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003eOne of Religion News Service’s Top 10 Religion and Spirituality Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003eA Sophie Brody Medal Noteworthy Title\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is the book that the world needs now.\" ―Franklin Foer, author of The Last Politician\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe powerful story of antisemitism in America and how it has shaped the lives of Jews for almost four centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJews experienced antisemitism the moment they landed on what would become the United States. When they first arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654, Peter Stuyvesant tried but failed to deport them. As historian Pamela S. Nadell tells in Antisemitism, an American Tradition, this was only antisemitism’s beginning on our shores, as negative European stereotypes about Jews rooted into American soil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompared with the Old World, with its expulsions, Inquisition, ghettos, and Holocaust, America’s Jews have a different history―but one where antisemitism, even if it has had fewer dramatic eruptions, is deeply embedded. Jews in America faced restrictions on holding office and getting financial credit. Universities set quotas to limit the number of Jews attending and businesses refused to hire them. Jews endured verbal and physical attacks, and their synagogues and cemeteries, continuing to this day, were vandalized and desecrated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntisemitism, an American Tradition investigates the depths of this fraught history and its recent manifestations: white nationalists chanting “Jews will not replace us” in Charlottesville, Virginia, and a gunman murdering eleven worshippers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue building.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNadell also shows Jews responding to prejudice and hate. America’s Jews created advocacy organizations. They turned to the courts to safeguard their constitutional rights. They made common cause with allies to confront all types of hate. They even used their fists when needed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt a time when prejudice, discrimination, and hate against Jews is flaring across the country, Antisemitism, an American Tradition argues that we must understand the past. This momentous work reveals how antisemitism―and resistance to that hatred―endures, representing not a rupture from America’s history, but a centuries-old legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 pages of illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46565274714182,"sku":"1324134283","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0126\/8596\/7418\/files\/9781324134282.jpg?v=1789225907","url":"https:\/\/www.braveandkindbooks.com\/products\/antisemitism-an-american-tradition-pamela-s-nadell","provider":"Brave + Kind Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}