Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
BDD - Bekhol Derakhekha Daehu; Journal of Torah and Scholarship
Angaben zur Quelle:
8 (1999) 29-50
Keywords:
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Christianity and antisemitism
Abstract:
Discusses several Christian writers on Jewish history, over a period of 170 years. Observes that until the mid-20th century non-Jews were generally ignorant of Jewish history, citing as examples major histories from Cambridge and Oxford, whose silence about Jewish history is only occasionally interrupted by negative stereotypes. Exceptions to this tradition are noted. These include Henry Hart Milman in his pioneering "History of the Jews" (1830) and W.E.H. Lecky, who deplored the revival of antisemitism in the late 19th century. Credits as philosemites the Reverend James Parks, who held the Christian Churches partly responsible for the Holocaust, and Travers Herford, whose scholarship helped remove the New Testament-based stigma from the term "Pharisee". Points out that Malcolm Hay not only documented how Christianity paved the way for the Holocaust but also brought out British responsibility for closing Palestine to Jews wanting to flee the Nazis. Post-Holocaust changes in Catholic attitudes toward the Jews and Judaism are revealed in the objective presentation of Paul Johnson's "The History of the Jews" (1987).
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