The prescient New York Instances writer delivers an urgent wake-up call to all or any Americans exposing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism within this country-and explains what we can do to beat it.

“Stunning . Bari Weiss is certainly heroic, fearless, amazing and big-hearted. Most of all, she is right.”-Lisa Taddeo, #1 NY Times bestselling author of Three Women

On October 27, 2018, eleven Jews were gunned down as they prayed at their synagogue in Pittsburgh. about How to Combat Anti-Semitism It had been the deadliest attack on Jews in American background.

For most Americans, the massacre at Tree of Life, the synagogue where Bari Weiss became a bat mitzvah, came as a complete surprise. But anti-Semitism may be the oldest hatred, commonplace across the Middle East and on the rise for years in Europe. So that awful morning hours in Pittsburgh raised a question Americans can no longer avoid: Could it happen here?

This book is Weiss’s answer.

Like many, Weiss long believed this country could escape the increasing tide of anti-Semitism. However now the luckiest Jews in history are starting to encounter a three-headed dragon known all as well well to Jews of additional times and areas: the physical concern with violent assault, the moral concern with ideological vilification, and the political concern with resurgent fascism and populism.

No longer the exclusive province of the significantly right, the considerably still left, and assorted spiritual bigots, anti-Semitism right now finds a real estate in identification politics as well as the reaction against identity politics, in the renewal of America First isolationism and the rise of one-world socialism, and in the pass on of Islamist tips into unlikely places. A hatred that was, until recently, reliably taboo, anti-Semitism can be migrating toward the mainstream, amplified by social media and a lifestyle of conspiracy that threatens us all.

Weiss’s cri de coeur can be an unnerving reminder that Jews must never lose their hard-won instinct for risk, and a powerful case for renewing Jewish and American ideals in uncertain times from one of our most provocative authors. Not just for the sake of America’s Jews, but for the sake of America.

Praise for How to Fight Anti-Semitism

“What Heinrich Graetz required 6 volumes of Jewish history to encompass, Bari Weiss has attained with remarkable succinctness. This essential book will engender a thousand discussions.”-Cynthia Ozick

“Her youth synagogue in Pittsburgh was the site of last year’s Shabbat morning hours massacre. This passionate, vividly written, regularly insightful reserve is certainly her pained, fighting elegy.”-The Guardian

“A bold summons to confront humanity’s oldest hatred.”-Country wide Review