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PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION
1. Quoted in Gregory Paul Wegner, Anti-Semitism and Schooling under the Third
Reich (New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2002), 162.
2. See our essay, “The Medieval Passion Play Revisited” in S. Brent Plate, ed., Re-
Viewing the Passion: Mel Gibson’s Film and its Critics (New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2004), 3–19.
3. Charles Sennott, “In Poland, New ‘Passion’ Plays on Old Hatreds,” Boston Globe
(April 10, 2004), D1, D6.
4. There were, of course, other reasons: fear for their own lives; concern that their
churches would be victimized; and, especially in the case of the Vatican, trepidation
about communist Russia emerging victorious and dominant.
5. Indicative of a global crisis, in October 2004 President George Bush signed the
Global Antisemitism Awareness Act requiring the State Department to compile
an annual report, the first of which was issued in January 2005, “Report on
Global Antisemitism,” which states that “The increasing frequency and severity
of antisemitic incidents since the start of the 21st century, particularly in Europe,
has compelled the international community to focus on antisemitism with
renewed vigor.” Also notable in 2004 is the “Berlin Declaration” of the Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe, a very elaborate, enlightened
statement addressing antisemitism.
6. The Protocols was fabricated 1894–1899 in Paris by or at the behest of the tsarist
secret police, Okhrana, headed in its foreign branch that operated in Paris by
P. I. Rachkovsky, an extreme antisemite, maker of pogroms, instigator of forgeries
and plots, and the likely commissioner of the Protocols, when the Dreyfus affair
was raging in France. Norman Cohn, Warrant for Genocide (New York:
Harper & Row, Torchbook, 1969), 78–83, 103.
7. Quoted in Gabriel Schoenfeld, The Return of Anti-Semitism (San Francisco: Encounter
Books, 2004), 17–18.
8. Quoted in ibid.
9. Quoted in ibid.
10. Quoted at http://memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=669.
11. Reuters, “Palestinians Remove Hate Text from Web Site,” The New York Times,
May 19, 2005. A5.
12. See section on France in Werner Bergmann and Juliane Wetzel, “Manifestations
of Anti-Semitism in the European Union,” a report prepared for the European
Monitoring Centre, unpublished, leaked EU report, 2002.
13. Quoted in ibid.