Antisemitism scholarship asked the uniqueness question at the expense of comparative racism

Evidence

First, is there a history of antisemitism? That is, is there anything to connect the persecution of the Jews before and after the Christian era or indeed between one part of the latter and another? Second, is antisemitism a unique phenomenon or should it be studied as part of an analysis of racisms, ethnic hatreds, and indeed persecutions as a whole? It will be argued below that the greater attention paid to the first question in scholarship since the Nazi era has been at the expense of the second. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 494

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames the two central historiographic questions organizing study of antisemitism.
• XREF: connects to: Fixing on antisemitism as the sole admissible racism blinds France to other institutional bias — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 960; Nazi and American researchers described nearly the same personality types with opposite valuations. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 429; Debates on antisemitism and Islamophobia have developed largely apart from race scholarship. — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion: Race,…, 10