long read
September 2025
Do not surrender to words! Mark Mazower on two histories of Antisemitism
By Ferenc Laczó

Ferenc Laczó delves into Mark Mazower's forthcoming book, Antisemitism: A Word in History (Allen Lane, 2025), writing that its proposal is to combat anti-Jewish prejudice not in isolation but as part of a broad anti-racist strategy, while safeguarding political debate and free speech – a kind of progressive centrism that, as Laczó notes, is difficult to disagree with.
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