For the record an investigation of the hatred and fear of the
Jewish race through the roots of mediaeval attitudes and
superstitions. For today, it is shown, that the same conception in
another vocabulary dominates the tenets of anti-Semitism, and
modern accusations are a more sophisticated version of the medieval
prejudice, modern thinking is conditioned by heritage of an
accumulated past, with nothing to do with fact or logic. Here then
is the Jew - as demon, Satan's helper, as sorcerer, as heretic, in
legends, fancy, church scourgings, etc., etc. A survey of
fundamentals of race antagonism, helpful for students and scholars,
primarily. (Kirkus Reviews)
The Devil and the Jews presents the medieval conception of the Jew
as devil-literally and figuratively. Through documents, analysis,
and illustrations, the book exposes the full spectrum of the Jew's
demonization as devil, sorcerer, blasphemer, and ritual murderer;
as desecrator and heretic; as usurer infidel. Trachtenberg reveals,
in a chilling study, how these myths, peculiar to Christian Europe
in the late Middle Ages, still exist transmuted form today.
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