The People of the BookThe history of Judaism has for too long been dominated by the theme of antisemitism, reducing Judaism to the recurrent saga of persecution and the struggle for survival. The history of philosemitism provides a corrective to that abysmal view, a reminder of the venerable religion and people that have been an inspiration for non Jews as well as Jews. There is a poetic justice or historic justice in the fact that England, the first country to expel the