WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • The prescient founder of The Free Press delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in this country—and explains what we can do to defeat it. “A praiseworthy and concise brief against modern-day anti-Semitism.”—The New York Times On October 27, 2018, eleven Jews were gunned down as they prayed at their synagogue in Pittsburgh. It was the deadliest attack on Jews in American history. For most Americans, the massacre at Tree of Life, the synagogue where Bari Weiss became a bat mitzvah, came as a shock. But anti-Semitism is the oldest hatred, commonplace across the Middle East and on the rise for years in Europe. So that terrible morning in Pittsburgh, as well as the continued surge of hate crimes against Jews in cities and towns across the country, raise a question Americans cannot avoid: Could it happen here? This book is Weiss’s answer. Like many, Weiss long believed this country could escape the rising tide of anti-Semitism. With its promise of free speech and religion, its insistence that all people are created equal, its tolerance for difference, and its emphasis on shared ideals rather than bloodlines, America has been, even with all its flaws, a new Jerusalem for the Jewish people. But now the luckiest Jews in history are beginning to face a three-headed dragon known all too well to Jews of other times and places: the physical fear of violent assault, the moral fear of ideological vilification, and the political fear of resurgent fascism and populism. No longer the exclusive province of the far right, the far left, and assorted religious bigots, anti-Semitism now finds a home in identity politics as well as the reaction against identity politics, in the renewal of America First isolationism and the rise of one-world socialism, and in the spread of Islamist ideas into unlikely places. A hatred that was, until recently, reliably taboo is migrating toward the mainstream, amplified by social media and a culture of conspiracy that threatens us all. Weiss is one of our most provocative writers, and her cri de coeur makes a powerful case for renewing Jewish and American values in this uncertain moment. Not just for the sake of America’s Jews, but for the sake of America.

Is the basis of Western Civilization Jewish and are Christians hypocritical in being anti-Semitic? Angered by growing anti-Semitism from Christians in the early 20th century, the author pointed out that if people were looking for a "Jewish conspiracy" then they should stop talking about Communism or Capitalism, but face up to the fact that Christianity-and therefore the post-Roman Western Civilization-has a Jewish spiritual, historical, intellectual and even moral basis. A book which will shock Christians, Jews and atheists alike. With a discussion and conclusion by a leading American professor. "Our tribal customs have become the core of your moral code. . . A Jewish rebel-prophet is the central figure in your religious worship. . . Half your wars, great and little, are religious wars, fought over the interpretation of one thing or another in our teachings. . . We have imposed upon you an alien book and an alien faith which you cannot swallow or digest, which is at cross-purposes with your native spirit. . . Your religion, your education, your morals, your social, governmental and legal systems, are fundamentally of our making. . . You Christians do not seem to know where your religion came from, nor how, nor why."

A new edition of Marcus Eli Ravage's cutting two essays on the hypocrisy of Christian anti-Semitism, written at a time when that sentiment was on the rise in America and Europe. Now with an extended afterword and appendices dealing with specific points raised by the author. The author, a prominent Jewish journalist, was angered by the tide of rising anti-Semitism in the early 20th century, pointed out that if people were looking for a "Jewish conspiracy" then they should stop talking about Communism or Capitalism, but face up to the fact that Christianity--and therefore the post-Roman Western Civilization--has a Jewish spiritual, historical, intellectual and even moral basis. "Our tribal customs have become the core of your moral code . . . A Jewish rebel-prophet is the central figure in your religious worship . . . Half your wars, great and little, are religious wars, fought over the interpretation of one thing or another in our teachings . . . We have imposed upon you an alien book and an alien faith which you cannot swallow or digest, which is at cross-purposes with your native spirit . . . Your religion, your education, your morals, your social, governmental and legal systems, are fundamentally of our making . . . You Christians do not seem to know where your religion came from, nor how, nor why." With an afterword by Professor H. E. James which investigates the author's claims and provides a full review of the Jewish origins of Christianity, post-Roman and modern Western liberal thought, and much more. A book which will shock Christians, Jews and atheists alike. Contents Chapter I: Background to the Author Chapter II: Text of Marcus Eli Ravage's "A Real Case Against the Jews: One of Them Points Out the Full Depth of Their Guilt." Chapter III: Text of Marcus Eli Ravage's "The Jew: Commissary to the Gentiles, The First to See the Possibilities of War by Propaganda." Chapter IV: Professor H. E. James: An Analysis of Marcus Eli Ravage's Claims Appendix 1: The Common Origin of Christianity, Judaism and Islam Appendix 2: Jesus Refused to Abolish Biblical Jewish Law Appendix 3: The Jewish Nature of the New Testament Appendix 4: Saul/Paul of Tarsus, the Jewish Apostle of Christianity to the Non-Jewish World Appendix 5: Jesus was Jewish, According to the Bible Appendix 6: Facsimile of the original article "A Real Case against the Jews." Appendix 7: Facsimile of the original article "Commissary to the Gentiles."

An honest, fair, and thorough discussion of the issues raised in Jewish Christian apologetics, covering thirty-five objections on general and historical themes.

"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is almost certainly fiction, but its impact was not. Originating in Russia, it landed in the English-speaking world where it caused great consternation. Much is made of German anti-semitism, but there was fertile soil for "The Protocols" across Europe and even in America, thanks to Henry Ford and others.

Why in America should the most sinister of European social diseases have taken root? Why should that disease have spread from its seemingly anachronistic beginning in the Gilded Age until it infected many of our great magazines and newspapers? Until it determined not only where a man might stay the night, but where he got his education and how he earned his living? This book answers such questions by exposing the myths with which the anti-Semite surrounds his position. By taking away the "mask of privilege" it reveals the source of such prejudice for what it is--the determination of the forces of special privilege, with their hangers-on, to maintain their select and exclusive status regardless of the consequences to other human beings. Like Carey McWilliams's other books on minorities in America, 'A Mask for Privilege' reveals the facts of discrimination so that the fogs of prejudice may be dispersed by the truth. It traces the growth of discrimination and persecution in America from 1877 to 1947, shows why Jews are such good scapegoats, and contrasts the Jewish stereotype--"too pushing, too cunning" with that of other minority groups. Then it looks at the anti-Semitic personality and concludes, with Sartre, that here is "a man who is afraid"--of himself. In his stirring new introduction, Wilson Carey McWilliams calls this a work of recovery "evoking names and moods and incidents now either half-forgotten or lost to memory." This brilliant analysis of anti-Semitism is a documented and forceful attempt to inform Americans about the danger of the undemocratic, antisocial practices in their midst, and to suggest a positive program to arrest a course too similar to that which led to the Holocaust. It transcends majority-minority relations and becomes an analysis of antidemocratic practices, which affect the whole fabric of American life.

I admire greatly the way in which Deacon Sciolino has been able to absorb a vast amount of material and weave it into a coherent account of the R. C. Church vis--vis the Holocaust. Telling the story from the inside has an especial relevance and importance. Rev. Hubert G. Locke, cofounder of the Annual Scholars Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches The image of Jews as God-killers and their refusal to convert to Christianity has fueled a long tradition of Christian intolerance, hatred, and violence. It is no surprise, then, that when Adolf Hitler advocated the elimination of Jews, he found willing allies within the Catholic Church and Christianity itself. In this study, author Anthony J. Sciolino, himself a Catholic, cuts into the heart of why the Catholic Church and Christianity as a whole failed to stop the Holocaust. He demonstrates that Nazisms racial anti-Semitism was rooted in Christian anti-Judaism. While tens of thousands of Christians risked their lives to save Jews, many moreincluding some members of the hierarchyaided Hitlers campaign with their silence or their participation. Sciolinos solid research and comprehensive interpretation provide a cogent and powerful analysis of Christian doctrine and church history to help answer the question of what went wrong. He suggests that Christian tradition and teaching systematically excluded Jews from the circle of Christian concern and thus led to the tragedy of the Holocaust. From the origins of anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism and the controversial position of Pope Pius XII to the Catholic Churchs current endeavors to hold itself accountable for their role, The Holocaust, the Church, and the Law of Unintended Consequences offers a vital examination of one of historys most disturbing issues. theholocaustandchurch.com