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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.

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

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Paperback / softback by Joshua Trachtenberg , Marc Saperstein

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A JPS bestseller, this is the definitive work of scholarship on the medieval conception of the Jew as devil—literally and... Read more

    Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
    Publication Date: 27/09/2002
    ISBN13: 9780827602274, 978-0827602274
    ISBN10: 0827602278

    Number of Pages: 278

    Non Fiction , History

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    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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