Description
Book SynopsisDiscusses the use of Luther's writings to reinforce anti-semitism and anti -Judaism
Trade ReviewThorough and wide-ranging, [Demonizing the Jews] is a valuable addition to the historiography of Adolf Hitler's Germany.
* The Times of Israel *
Christopher Probst has written an insightful analysis of the ways in which Protestant reformer Martin Luther's anti-Jewish writings were used by German Protestants during the Third Reich.
* Contemporary Church History Quarterly *
Probst provides us with a detailed exegesis of each of his sources, which taken together thoughtfully challenge the supposed discontinuity between premodern anti-Judaism and modern antisemitism.
* H-Judaic *
[B]y introducing us to new figures and showing us how three different church groups in Germany responded to 'The Jewish Question,' this book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the churches under Nazism.
* Lutheran Quarterly *
This book is clearly a worthwhile read for a Jewish audience unaware of the basis of Protestant anti-Semitism as a component of the overall phenomenon.
* AJL Reviews *
Probst illuminates the grim reality of Germany from 1933 to 1939, an era in which the Nazis disavowed Enlightenment humanitarianism and internationalism in its various forms and turned the secular state against the most prominent beneficiaries of the Enlightenment, assimilated German Jews.
* American Historical Review *
Probst is to be lauded for presenting an insightful account of the convoluted echoes and reverberations of this deeply problematic aspect of Luther's legacy within German Protestantism over the longue durée.
* German Studies Review *
This is a useful, clearly written, conscientious supplement. . . .
* German History *
Christopher J. Probst has written a helpful book on an important topic.
* HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES *
[R]epresents a valuable addition . . . .
* H-Soz-U-Kult *
[Probst] . . . challenges the dichotomy between theological anti-Judaism and racial antisemitism, since he sees a great deal of overlap both in the sixteenth as well as the twentieth century. Anti-Judaism and antisemitism existed side-by-side in both Luther's writings and in those of many German Protestants in the Nazi era.
* Journal of Ecclesiastical History *
Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Protestantism in Nazi Germany
2. "Luther and the Jews"
3. Confessing Church and German Christian Academic Theologians
4. Confessing Church Pastors
5. German Christian Pastors and Bishops
6. Pastors and Theologians from the Unaffiliated Protestant "Middle"
Conclusion
Bibliography
