The Crucified Jew: Twenty Centuries of Christian Anti-Semitism (1992 Cohn-Sherbok), book

Dan Cohn-Sherbok, The Crucified Jew: Twenty Centuries of Christian Anti-Semitism (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2001).

Abstract

"The author finds the roots of modern anti-Semitism in Christianity itself. The followers of Christ believed themselves to be the true heirs of the covenant with God that the Jews had rejected. Even their scriptures - the New Testament - express a deep distrust of the tradition into which Christ himself was born. As the centuries unfold in a grim and unrelenting chronicle, the Jewish people are vilified for their role in Jesus' death and for rejecting him as their saviour. They are caricatured as a dark force seeking to undermine Christianity, whether by political or supernatural means. The book concludes with a study of anti-Semitism in post-war Europe, where the church has at last made some attempt to repent for past sins, and to open a meaningful exchange with its Jewish brothers and sisters. The author argues that this initiative is vital."--Publisher description.

Contents

The Greco-Roman World -- Anti-Judaism in the New Testament -- The Church Fathers and Jewish Hatred -- Medieval Persecutions, Ritual Murder and the Talmud -- The Demonic Image of the Jew -- Post-Medieval Anti-Semitism in France, England and Germany -- Spanish Persecution and the Inquisition -- The Dispersion of the Marranos -- Anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe -- Western Jewry in the Early Modern Period -- The Enlightenment in England, France and Germany -- The Emancipation of the Jews -- Judeophobia in the Early Nineteenth Century -- Modern Images of the Jew in Germany, France and Russia -- Prelude to the Holocaust -- The Death Camps -- Anti-Semitism in a Post-Holocaust World -- Toward Reconciliation.

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