Tag Archives: anti-Semitism

(Normal) Nazi Adjacent and Ethno-Religious Fascist Politics in the United States and Israel (Not Normal)

Posted on December 2, 2022 by zjb

These things are not separate: Nazi adjacent politics and a surge of anti-Semitism in the United States, ethno-religious fascism in Israel, and their mainstreaming in society by rightwing media platforms. It remains to be seen if this institutes the new … Continue reading →

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Stop American Nazis & Vote Democrat

Posted on October 26, 2022 by zjb

As reported here, this add by the Jewish Democratic Council of America minces no words about threats to democracy and the upcoming 2022 midterm elections. I’m posting an article here by Arno Rosenfeld who provides some backdrop to this ad. … Continue reading →

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Martin Luther & The Jews (pdfs)

Posted on August 1, 2022 by zjb

Scholars and non-scholars, Jews and Christians, owe a great debt to the work of scholars working in the Lutheran tradition for preserving these texts by Luther that they recognize as odious. Given that they are hard to find in one … Continue reading →

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(Christianity) The Trial of the Talmud (Documents)

Posted on June 20, 2022 by zjb

What were the actual talmudic texts that Christians found so irksome? What do we actually learn about Talmud from its most caustic critics, the elite Christian accusers from the High Medieval Age? The Trial of the Talmud Paris 1240 is … Continue reading →

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Anti-Trans, Anti-Semitism

Posted on June 17, 2022 by zjb

Falling under the rubric of Reactionary Bio-Politics, a lot of this is flying online under the radar, both the discourse of transphobic activism and critical writing pushing back against it. If any of this is to be believed, there are … Continue reading →

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Monstrous Talmud & Christian Simulacra (Peter The Venerable)

Posted on June 10, 2022 by zjb

Abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Cluny, Peter the Venerable (1092-1156) was a master hermeneut. He is generally recognized as one of the great Christian thinkers of the High Middle Ages. Also recognized is how he marks a new Church … Continue reading →

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(Christianity) Talmud and the Impotence of God (Petrus Alfonsi)

Posted on May 24, 2022 by zjb

Petrus Alfonsi was a Jewish convert to Christianity who grew up in an Iberian-Islamic milieu in Huesca, which became the capital of Aragon atthe time of the Christian reconquest. While it goes unnamed as such, his Dialogus contra Iudaeos (ca. … Continue reading →

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(ADL) Anti-Semitism Algorithm

Posted on April 26, 2022 by zjb

Critics of the ADL are invited to pile on, but, for all that, I am posting here a precis and the full report here of their Online Hate Index. It’s an AI program whose alogrithm tracks anti-Semitic content at Twitter … Continue reading →

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(James Loeffler) After Charlottesville: Antisemitism, Race, Law (Rudolph Lecture)

Posted on April 22, 2022 by zjb
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(Still Lachrymose) The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom (Robert Chazan)

Posted on April 12, 2022 by zjb

Invaluable for students of Jews and Jewish Studies is the focus Robert Chazan puts on Christians and Christendom in this neat little survey. The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom 1000-1500 is maybe the best one-stop-shop historical study explaining what happened … Continue reading →

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