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Focusing on the previously unexplored religious and spiritual beliefs of the Nazi elites, the author exposes the underlying but ultimately distorted 'Christianity' at the heart of the Nazi critique of Germany. (History) (view table of contents)

Drawing on previously hidden Vatican sources and archival materials, a provovative historical study traces the evolution of anti-Semitism in the Catholic Church from the French Revolution to World War II and assesses the Church's role in promoting and disseminating a centuries-long demonization of the Jews throughout Europe that led to the Holocaust. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

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Product Description: An endlessly perplexing question of the twentieth century is how “decent” people came to allow, and sometimes even participate in, the Final Solution. Fear obviously had its place, as did apathy. But how does one explain the silence of those people who were committed, active, and often fearless opponents of the Nazi regime on other grounds—those who spoke out against Nazi activities in many areas yet whose response to genocide ranged from tepid disquiet to avoidance? One such group was the Confessing Church, Protestants who often risked their own safety to aid Christian victims of Nazi oppression but whose response to pogroms against Jews was ambivalent...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: In this text, the author challenges traditional views that trace the source of Christian anti-Semitism to the presentation of Jews in the first four books of the New Testament. She argues that the unflattering depiction of Jews in the gospels is the result of Christian anti-Semitism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A highly acclaimed exploration of the essential Jewish character discusses the reasons for history's anti-Semitism and for Jewish persistence in spite of it, giving concise sketches of important Jewish figures, examining Jewish conflicts, and much more. Reprint.

A collection of discussions by leading advocates offers varying viewpoints on topics regarding antisemitism (view table of contents)

Product Description: Explores how dramatic the experience of antisemitism in the USA has been and how we can make advances to overcome this situation. New subtitle will probably be Christian Antisemitism in America. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of essays focuses on the concepts of tolerance and intolerance as it commemorates the life of James Parkes - the man who pioneered the study of antisemitism and Jewish-non-Jewish relations. The essays analyse many different examples of antisemitism, ambivalence and philosemitism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Argues that, although antisemitism exists in many cultures, it is the unique character of racism inherent in German culture that allowed for the extreme persecution of Jews culminating in the Holocaust

Product Description: This collection of essays focuses on the concepts of tolerance and intolerance as it commemorates the life of James Parkes - the man who pioneered the study of antisemitism and Jewish-non-Jewish relations. The essays analyse many different examples of antisemitism, ambivalence and philosemitism...read more

Product Description: The idea for this book arose out of the author's 15 years of sustained engagement in Jewish-Christian relations. His purpose here is to speak about the practice of religious education in the church in which anti-Judaism is eliminated...read more

Product Description: Anti-Semitism or, to be more precise, anti-Judaism has been called "the longest hatred". It has been fueled over the centuries by "the teaching of contempt" from countless Christian pulpits and in books and pamphlets without number...read more

A study of the role of the devil in biblical and modern times theorizes that dissident social gorups that resisted Christianity, such as pagans and Jews, were typically portrayed as demons and therefore established as threats. Reprint. 60,000 first printing. NYT.

Toward a Definition of Antisemitism offers new contributions by Gavin I. Langmuir to the history of antisemitism, together with some that have been published separately. The collection makes Langmuir's innovative work on the subject available to scholars in medieval and Jewish history and religious studies. The underlying question that unites the book is: what is antisemitism, where and when did it emerge, and why? After two chapters that highlight the failure of historians until recently to depict Jews and attitudes toward them fairly, the majority of the chapters are historical studies of crucial developments in the legal status of Jews and in beliefs about them during the Middle Ages. Two concluding chapters provide an overview. In the first, the author summarizes the historical developments, indicating concretely when and where antisemitism as he defines it emerged. In the second, Langmuir criticizes recent theories about prejudice and racism and develops his own general theory about the nature and dynamics of antisemitism.

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Product Description: This book is the history of an imaginary people the Red Jews in vernacular sources from medieval and early modern Germany. From the twelfth to the seventeenth century, German-language texts repeated and embroidered on an antisemitic tale concerning an epochal threat to Christianity, the Red Jews...read more

Product Description: Book annotation not available for this title.Title: The Crime of ChristendomAuthor: Bratton, Fred GladstonePublisher: Scb DistributorsPublication Date: 1995/01/01Number of Pages: Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: 94033139

God and Humanity in Auschwitz synthesizes the findings of research developed over the last thirty years on the rise of anti-Semitism in our civilization. Donald J. Dietrich sees the Holocaust as a case study of how prejudice has been theologically enculturated. He suggests how it may be controlled by reducing aggressive energy before it becomes overwhelming. Dietrich studies the recent responses of Christian theologians to the Holocaust and the Jewish theological response to questions concerning God's covenant with Israel, which were provoked by Auschwitz. Social science has dealt with the psychosocial dynamics that have supported genocide and helps explain how ordinary persons can produce extraordinary evil. Dietrich shows how this research, combined with theological analyses, can help reconfigure theology itself. Such an approach may serve to help dissolve anti-Semitism, to aid in constructing such positive values as respect for human dignity, and to point the way to restricting future outbreaks of genocide. God and Humanity in Auschwitz surveys which religious factors created a climate that permitted the Holocaust. It also illuminates what social science has to tell us about developing a strategy that, when institutionally implemented, can channel our energies away from sanctioned murder toward a more compassionate society. The book has proven to be an essential resource for theologians, sociologists, historians, and political theorists.