Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will write about anti-Jewish bigotry in a book coming next year.
Grand Central will publish the New York Democrat’s Antisemitism in America: A Warning in the winter, the press announced in a news release. It describes the book as “an urgent work of nonfiction that illuminates the Jewish experience and the prejudices both hidden and overt that have led to the chronic persecution of the Jewish people.”
Schumer has represented New York in the U.S. Senate since 1999. In 2021, he became the first Jewish person to serve as Senate majority leader, making him the highest-ranking elected Jewish politician in U.S. history. Last year, he delivered an address about antisemitism on the Senate floor, calling it “a five-alarm fire that must be extinguished.”
His book, Grand Central says, “informs Americans’ understanding of the causes of the recent swell of antisemitic rhetoric and violence in our country. In very personal terms, it will engage with debates over the purpose and meaning of Israel, and help draw a line between legitimate criticism of its government and when criticism of Israel as a Jewish homeland verges into antisemitism.”
In a statement, Schumer said, “At its core, my book is a warning. If America fails to understand the context and history of antisemitism, if America’s darker impulses ultimately overwhelm its better angels, an age-old truth will prove true once again: that antisemitism inevitably leads to violence against Jews and a rise in bigotry in our society at large.”
Antisemitism in America is slated for publication on Feb. 18, 2025.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
