Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. The Antisemitic Contexts of Sociology's Emergence -- 1. Durkheim's Sociology and French Antisemitism -- 2. Sociology's Case for a Well-Tempered Modernity -- 3. Fairness as an Impetus for Objective, Scientific Social Research Methods -- 4. Coldly Admiring the Jews -- Part 2. Sociology's Reaction to Antisemitism -- 5. Rereading Marx on the "Jewish Question" -- 6. From Assimilationist Antiracism to Zionist Anti-antisemitism -- 7. The Rise of Sociology, Antisemitism, and the Jewish Question -- 8. Civilization(s), Ethnoracism, Antisemitism, Sociology -- Part 3. The Reformulation of Sociology in the Face of Fascist Antisemitism -- 9. Talcott Parsons's "The Sociology of Modern Anti-Semitism" -- 10. The Irrationality of the Rational -- 11. Gino Germani, Argentine Sociology, and the Study of Antisemitism -- 12. Antisemitism and the Power of Abstraction -- Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index -- About the Editor.