Reader, I kid. Rather, he has set out to provide a global, historical account of why his “Calm down, you silly Jews” approach was essentially right all along. If one were to turn the apologist’s reflexive tic of appending “…and other forms of racism” to any rote denunciation of antisemitism into a scholarly work, this would be it. Historians of antisemitism tend, he airily, dismissively pronounces, to catastrophise – while reeling of an inventory of the catastrophes to which they are reacting One should not assume from this that the book is without use or merit. On the contrary, as...