Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will publish a book next February detailing his experience as the nation’s highest-ranking Jewish leader to issue what he describes as a “warning” about the rise of antisemitism in America.

Antisemitism in America: A Warning will be released on Feb. 18, the book’s publisher, Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, announced on Wednesday. It will draw on Schumer’s life story, tracing back to his youth in Brooklyn in the 1960s and Harvard University in the 1970s through his decades in politics, to explain “his generation’s Jewish experience.”

“For the first time in generations, antisemitism has become a daily reality in America, and it’s getting worse. Jewish synagogues and their congregants are targeted and sometimes killed by extremists, Jewish students are harassed and attacked on campus, conspiracy theories about Jews have gone mainstream on social media, and debates over Israel have veered into dangerous territory,” a press release on the book reads. 

In it, Schumer “tackles the historical, political, cultural, and international forces that have led to the alarming rise of antisemitism in America in the 21st Century.”

“Schumer takes readers on a personal journey of how Jewish Americans like him have come to understand their history, their place in America — and why they worry about the future of Jewish life in America. This book is a warning, informed by the lessons of history and Schumer’s experience, about what can happen when the world’s oldest hatred is allowed to rise unchecked,” the release continued.

News of the book was first reported by the Associated Press.

The New York Democrat, 73, said in a statement that, “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. Jewish Americans never thought it could happen here in America. Now, for the first time, they’re worried it could.”

“As the Irish writer Conor Cruise O’Brien once said, ‘antisemitism is a light sleeper,’” he added.