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

Joshua Trachtenberg

ISBN 10: 0827602278 / ISBN 13: 9780827602274

Published by JEWISH PUBLICATON SOCIETY, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Devil and the Jews: The Medieval Conception of the Jew and Its Relation to Modern Anti-Semitism
• Publisher: JEWISH PUBLICATON SOCIETY
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0827602278
• ISBN 13: 9780827602274
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

A JPS bestseller, this is the 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 demonization as devil, sorcerer, and ritual murderer. The author reveals how these myths, many with origins traced to Christian Europe in the late Middle Ages, still exist in transmuted form in the modern era.

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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.