Anti-semitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present

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55. Luther’s Works, ed. Jaroslav Pelikan (St. Louis: Concordia, 1955-), 14:257, 263;
22:86.
56. Beda Rigaux, L’Antéchrist et l’Opposition au Royaume Messianique dans l’Ancien et le
Nouveau Testament (Paris: Gabalda, 1932), 401–2.
57. Quoted in Sanders, Jesus and Judaism, 44.
58. Cohn, Trial and Death of Jesus, 261–75; the Matthean passage, says Cohn, 275, is
“one more tragic touch to the disastrous and total misconception of the Jewish
role in the trial of Jesus.”
59. A parallel exegetical problem is found in St. Paul’s arrest as reported in Acts
21–27, where the author, Luke, struggles to put the Roman government in the
best possible light and the Jews in the worst possible light—here again is a reflection
of the missionary pitch and the desire to assuage Rome. Paul invoked
his Roman citizenship, saying “I appeal to Caesar” (Acts 25:11) and should not
be subjected to Jewish accusation.
60. Winter, On the Trial of Jesus, 163.
61. Vawter, “Are the Gospels Anti-Semitic?,” 486.
62. Ange de Chivasso, Summa Angelica as quoted by Léon Poliakov, The History of
Anti-Semitism, vol. 3, From Voltaire to Wagner, trans. Miriam Kochan (New York:
Vanguard, 1975), 6.
63. Quoted in Frederick M. Schweitzer, “Medieval Perceptions of Jews and Judaism,”
Jewish-Christian Encounters over the Centuries, ed. Perry and Schweitzer,
142–43.
64. For the last three paragraphs, see Jeremy Cohen, “The Jews as the Killers of
Christ in the Latin Tradition, from Augustine to the Friars,” Traditio 39 (1983):
3–27.
65. Quoted by Irving Greenberg in Auschwitz: Beginning of a New Era? 441–42, n. 7.
66. Quoted in Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews (New York:
Holmes & Meier, 1985), 3:1021.
67. Quoted by Meir Michaelis, “Italy,” in The World Reacts to the Holocaust, ed. David
Wyman (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1966), 533.
68. Eliezer Berkovits as cited by Geoffrey Wigoder, Contemporary Jewish Religious
Thought, ed. Arthur A. Cohen and Paul Mendes-Flohr (New York: Free Press,
1988), 152.
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1. Quoted in Saul S. Friedman, The Incident at Massena (New York: Stein & Day,
1978), 118.
2. Quoted in Ibid., 118.
3. Quoted in Ibid., 119.
4. Quoted in Frederick M. Schweitzer, “Medieval Perceptions of Jews and Judaism,”
Jewish-Christian Encounters over the Centuries, ed. Marvin Perry and
Frederick M. Schweitzer (New York: Peter Lang, 1994), 149.
5. Hermann L. Strack, The Jew and Human Sacrifice (London: Cope and Fenwick,
1909), xi.
6. Ibid., 170.
7. Malcolm Hay, Europe and the Jews (Boston: Beacon Press, 1960), 120; Jonathan
Frankel, The Damascus Affair (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997),
240.