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The Devil and the Jews

The Medieval Conception of the Jew and Its Relation to Modern Anti-Semitism

Joshua Trachtenberg Marc Saperstein

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English
Jewish Publication Society
27 September 2002
A definitive work of scholarship on 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 demonisation as devil, sorcerer, blasphemer and ritual murderer; as a desecrator and heretic; as usurer and infidel. Trachtenberg reveals, in a chilling study difficult to put down, how these myths, peculiar to Christian Europe in the late Middle Ages, still exist in transmuted form in the modern era.
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Imprint:   Jewish Publication Society
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   379g
ISBN:   9780827602274
ISBN 10:   0827602278
Pages:   278
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for The Devil and the Jews: The Medieval Conception of the Jew and Its Relation to Modern Anti-Semitism

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)


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