Christine Achinger is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Warwick. She has published in the area of critical social theory and German Studies. She is currently working on constructions of Jewishness, gender and modernity and their interrelation since the Enlightenment.

Robert Fine is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. He has published widely in the area of critical social theory focusing on rights, law, state and cosmopolitanism. He is currently co-editing a collection on Hannah Arendt's On Revolution and co-authoring a monograph on antisemitism and cosmopolitanism. He is on the Executive of the European Sociological Association.

Foreword 1. 'Introduction: On the difficulties of understanding antisemitism and its connections with other racisms' Robert Fine and Christine Achinger 2. A common cause: Reconnecting the study of racism and anti-Semitism Glynis Cousin and Robert Fine 3. Antisemitism in France: Past and present' Veronique Altglas 4. Threats to modernity, threats of modernity: Racism and antisemitism through the lens of literature Christine Achinger 5. The blind spots of secularization: A qualitative approach to the study of antisemitism in Spain Alejandro Baer and Paula López 6. The racialization of public discourse: Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Italian society Dario Padovan and Alfredo Alietti 7. Discourses on antisemitism and Islamophobia in Arab media Esther Webman [...]opean Marxism and the question of antisemitism: Reactions to the Holocaust before, during and after the event Philip Spencer