The Jew and Human Sacrifice [Human Blood and Jewish Ritual] - An Historical and Sociological Inquiry

"I have [here] pointed out, even more emphatically than in the original edition, that superstition, especially the 'blood-superstition,' is even nowadays very wide-spread, and that it has had in the past, as it has in the present, deplorable, yes and horrible, consequences." - Preface. "Hermann Leberecht Strack (1848 1922) was a German Protestant theologian and orientalist; born in Berlin. He was the foremost Christian authority in Germany on Talmudic and rabbinic literature, and studied rabbinics under Steinschneider. Since the reappearance of anti-Semitism in Germany, Strack had been the champion of the Jews against the attacks of such men as Adolf Stoecker, August Rohling, and others." - Wikipedia. Translated from the Eighth edition with corrections. New preface and additions by the author. Translated from the German. xvi, [2], 19-289 p. Index. Bibliography. Footnotes. No dust jacket. The original binding of this title was notoriously short-lived, thus this example is expertly rebound in bright maroon buckram lettered in gilt upon spine. Two-inch opening to bottom of page 27. Trivial ink annotations to pages 25 and 37 otherwise tight and clean with light wear. A quality example.; Sm 4to.…