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ADDITIONAL PRAISE FOR HOLY HATRED :

“This work is a thorough treatment of an immense topic. So

much has been written about Christian antisemitism, and about

the Holocaust, that general readers can sometimes lose sight of

the fact that an intimate causal relationship existed between the

two. All that had gone before, it seemed, allowed the Holocaust

to happen––indeed, it might be said that the Holocaust was in

fact the culmination of the previous twenty centuries of Christian

animosity towards Jews, a hostility that only intensified with each

passing year. Robert Michael has crafted a timely study which

deserves to be read by specialist and non-specialist alike, the bet-

ter to understand the dynamics of Christian Jew-hatred from the

time of the early Church fathers to Hitler and beyond. Michael is

to be congratulated on bringing light to an area that has in the

past all too frequently been darkened by the clouds of supersti-

tion, bigotry, and denial. This work is, in short, a praiseworthy

achievement––a model of its kind.”––Paul R. Bartrop, Honorary

Research Fellow, The Faculty of Arts, Deakin University, and

Head of History, Bialik College

“ Holy Hatred is a masterful, beautifully written study of how

Christianity and the churches shaped and sustained a lethal anti-

semitism for almost two millennia. With a full command of both

primary and secondary sources, Robert Michael exposes the

extent and continuity of Christian racial and theological anti-

semitism from the earliest foundations of the Church through the

Holocaust. Michael powerfully delineates nearly two millennia of

the obsessive Christian teachings that dehumanized Jews and the

behavior [Christians] justified, including the numerous calls to rid

the world of Jews and Judaism. The author shows the critical

importance of Christian antisemitism to German and Austrian

Nazis at all levels and to the vast populations that sustained them.

In unforgettable, even shocking, portraits, Michael reveals the

extent to which Christian antisemitism shaped the views of lead-

ing German literary figures, composers, philosophers, and politi-

cal thinkers from left to right. A brilliant work, the work of a true

master, a powerful and courageous study, unlike that of so many

who have written on the subject of antisemitism, who have cho-

sen to appease Christians and Christianity. Future studies of the

Holocaust or of antisemitism will have to address Michael’s work.

This is a unique and extremely important book!”

–– Eunice G. Pollack , University of North Texas

“Following in the footsteps of Poliakov and Flannery, this book

offers a powerful description of Christianity’s intimate involve-

ment with Judeophobia and anti-Semitism from the gospels for-

ward. In the later chapters, which focus on Central Europe in the

modern period, the author pulls no punches in describing the reli-

gious traditions and historical precedents upon which the Nazis

drew.”–– Peter J. Haas , Abba Hillel Silver Professor of Jewish

Studies, Chair, Department of Religious Studies, and Director,

The Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies, Case Western

Reserve University

“If anyone still remains ignorant of the Christian origins of anti-

Semitism––ancient and modern––and its contribution to the

Holocaust, this book will remedy that bliss: clearly, and in com-

prehensive detail. Organized, institutionalized defamation of Jews

and Judaism is shown to derive from the Christian Bible and its

sainted interpreters, while incitement to murder Jews begins with

the Church Fathers, Popes, and holy men and contaminates the

Christian and Secular West. A history of Christianity’s crusading

sins against Jews, Judaism, and God, in thought, word and

deed.”–– Richard Elliott Sherwin , Professor, Bar-Ilan University

HOLY HATRED: CHRISTIANITY,

ANTISEMITISM, AND THE HOLOCAUST

R OBERT M ICHAEL

HOLY HATRED

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ISBN-13: 978–1–4039–7471–6 hardback

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Michael, Robert, 1936–

Holy hatred : Christianity, antisemitism, and the Holocaust /

Robert Michael.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 1–4039–7471–3 (hardcover : alk. paper)––

ISBN 1–4039–7472–1 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Christianity and antisemitism––History.

2. Judaism––Relations––Christianity. 3. Christianity and other

religions––Judaism. 4. Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945)––Causes.

I. Title.

BM535.M52 2006

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