Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20130610 : vimarsana.com

it is my pleasure to welcome for you this afternoon david nirenberg. is the professor of medieval history and social thought at the university of chicago. his work focuses on interactions of jewish, christian, and islamic cultures in history. this book is called anti-judaism: the western tradition. let s give a nice warm chicago welcome to david nirenberg. [applause] thank you, john. thanks to the chicago tribune printer s row lit fest and thanks to all of you for choosing books over the beach on a sunday. it looks like something of an endangered species and it s wonderful to see so many people who care about the future of an endangered species. books have a great we re told, an old adage, but they seldom have birthdays meaning office can seldom say i know when i started to write this book. but this one i can. it was september of 2001, and i was a professor at johns hopkins and had to give a talk at nyu on muslim jewish christian relations in the middl a