ABSTRACT
Steven Englund argues for the significance of religious aspects in the study of modern antisemitism. Englund advocates that modernists adopt a hermeneutical (interpretive) approach to our subject along with the solid empirical one that all historians of course depend upon. The full understanding of antisemitism requires not only the excavation of more evidence about specific conflicts, but reflection on the “webs of significance” in which man is “suspended” and which “he himself has spun” over a very long period of time. Englund sees ewiger Judenhass indeed as an imaginaire social of Christian, and post-Christian, society.
