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Foreword / Margaret MacMillan -- 1. Public Lessons and Personal Lessons -- 2. Historical Lessons -- 3. Early Lessons -- 4. Jewish Lessons -- 5. Israeli Lessons -- 6. Universal Lessons -- 7. Lessons of the Holocaust -- Acknowledgments -- Principal Sources -- Index

Antisemitism : an enduring reality / Brian Mulroney -- Law and antisemitism : the role for the state in responding to hatred / R. Roy McMurtry -- The changing dimensions of contemporary Canadian antisemitism / Morton Weinfeld -- Historical reflections on contemporary antisemitism / Steven J. Zipperstein -- Antisemitism in Western Europe today / Todd M. Endelman -- Antisemitism and anti-Zionism : a historical approach / Derek J. Penslar -- The nature and determinants of Arab attitudes towards Israel / Mark Tessler.

Autobiography, experience and the writing of history / Steven E. Aschheim -- From Johannesburg to Warsaw: an ideological journey / Antony Polonsky -- The personal contexts of a Holocaust historian: war, politics, trials, and professional rivalry; Christopher R. Browning -- Autobiographical reflections on writing history, the Holocaust, and hairdressing / David Cesarani -- On the Holocaust and comparative history / Steven T. Katz -- Historiosophy as a response to catastrophe: studying Nazi Christians as a Jew / Susannah Heschel -- Pastors and professors: assessing complicity and unfolding complexity / Robert P. Ericksen -- Protestants, Catholics, Mennonites, and Jews: identities and institutions in Holocaust studies / Doris l. Bergen -- My wrestling with the Holocaust / Karl A. Schleunes -- "Lessons" of the Holocaust and the ceaseless, discordant search for meaning / Michael R. Marrus -- Apartheid and the herrenvolk idea / David Welsh -- Echoes of Nazi antisemitism in South Africa during the 1930s and 1940s / Milton Shain

Antisemitism is reappearing in disturbing new ways and in unexpected strength. This resurgence is of deep concern to politicians, practitioners of law, the academic community, and to informed citizens everywhere. To address this, a scholarly conference was assembled at the University of Toronto in 2003. Contemporary Antisemitism is the result of that meeting.Editors Derek J. Penslar, Michael R. Marrus, and Janice Gross Stein, and the contributors to this volume address the following questions: is contemporary antisemitism an eerie echo of the past, or is it driven by new combinations of political, economic, and religious forces? How powerful are the anti-Jewish trends that so many have detected? And how should liberal democratic societies respond to this new threat against them? The essays map the terrain of antisemitic thought and practice, make important distinctions between expressions of antisemitism across time and space, and put various strategies of response into critical perspective.With its combination of voices from both scholarship and leadership – including Chief Justice of Ontario R. Roy McMurtry and former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney – and its unique assessment of antisemitism in Canada and the struggle against it, Contemporary Antisemitism offers new perspectives on one of the world's most ancient and diffuse hatreds.