Universalism Jewish a Recent Development Sears
Compassion for Humanity in the Jewish Tradition, by Dovid Sears. 1998
Jewish Universalism Mostly a Recent Development. Cheating the GOYIM: Immoral or Unwise? This work is an impressive collection of positive Jewish statements about gentiles. For instance, righteous non-Jews deserve a place in the World to Come (SANHREDRIN 105a). (p.… Read moreTalmud AntiChristian Schafer
Jesus in the Talmud, by Peter Schäfer. 2007
Very Scholarly: Includes an Ironic Counterpart to Christian Charges of Jewish Deicide Agree with this author or not, he is no intellectual lightweight. He teaches Judaic studies at Princeton University, and Rabbi Burton L. Vizotzky (on the outside book cover), calls Schaefer… Read moreTalmud Anti Christian Frydland
When Being Jewish Was A Crime, by Rachmiel Frydland. 1978
Candor on the Talmud Against Jesus Christ, the Admission of GOYIM to the Temple for Prayer, and the ALEINU The author lived in Lesniczowka, near Chelm. (p. 97). He was an Orthodox Jew. One of the yevishas he attended, in… Read moreTalmudic Racism GOYIM as Virtual Animals Rubenstein
The Culture of the Babylonian Talmud, by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein. 2003
The Contempt of Ancient Babylonian Rabbis for Non-Rabbinic Jews Parallels That Against the GOYIM. Both Were Virtual Animals A major theme of this work is that the traditions of the Palestinian Talmud had a much more favorable view of… Read moreTalmudic Racism Wrestled With Assaf
Untold Tales of the Hasidim: Crisis and Discontent in the History of Hasidism, by David Assaf. 2010
Not Only Christian Authorities Censored Jews: Jewish Authorities Also Censored Jews. Talmudic Racism Confronted This work focuses on the often-disagreeable and sometimes violent antagonisms between different factions of Jews. This includes conflicts between… Read moreTalmudic Sequels Also Contain Racism Mahler
Hasidism and the Jewish Enlightenment, by Raphael Mahler. 1984
Jewish Racism in Parts of the Midrash and the Kabbalah. Jewish Prosperity in Poland This work focuses on how the Hasidic movement developed, and how it interacted with other Jews, and gentiles. It also provides insight into the situation facing Jews… Read moreTalmudic Sequels Also Contain Racism Katz
Exclusiveness and Tolerance: Studies in Jewish-Gentile Relations in Medieval and Modern Times, by Jacob Katz. 1983
Talmudic Antigoyism Didn't Die Out in the Talmudic or Medieval Period: It Persisted to Recent Times! Jews and Christians each had stereotypical views of each other (p. xiv), and Jewish views of Christianity were… Read moreTalmudic Maledictions Against Christians Langer
Cursing the Christians?: A History of the Birkat Haminim, by Ruth Langer. 2011
The Long History of Jewish Malediction Against Christianity--Even Before Christians Were in a Position to Persecute Jews This is a fascinating, technical book. The author traces the history of the BIRKAT HAMINIM from antiquity, through the Middle… Read moreTalmudic Parallels to DER GIFTPILZ Wasserman
Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals, by Mira Beth Wasserman. 2017
A Fascinating Work That Confronts the Racist Aspects of the Talmud. Dual Morality Tacitly Accounts for the Auschwitz Carmelite Convent Controversy Author and Rabbi Mira Beth Wasserman is Assistant Professor of Rabbinical Literature at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. This work is… Read moreTalmudic Racism and Universalism Cohen
Everyman's Talmud, by Abraham Cohen. 1949
Addresses Talmudic Racism and Universalism. Jewish Chosenness. Antigoyism: Torah Umbrella Exculpation There is a wealth of information in this detailed work by Talmudic scholar Abraham Cohen, and I focus on a few items of lasting interest. My review is based on the original 1949… Read moreTalmudic Racism and Universalism Stern
Jewish Identity in Early Rabbinic Writings, by Sacha Stern. 1997
British Jewish Scholar Analyzes Talmudic Racism and Universalism. A Talmudic Basis For Some Forms of Holocaust-Related Jewish Anti-Polonism The author is Professor of Rabbinic Judaism at University College London. He identifies himself as an Orthodox Jew. (p. xxii). In his… Read moreTalmudic Racism Examples Cohen
The Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Berakot, by Abraham Cohen. 1921
Racist Memes in the Talmudic Tractate Berachoth (Berakot): Stars Were Created Only for the Jews, and the GOYIM as Virtual Animals My review is based on the original 1921 edition. Talmudic scholar Abraham Cohen provides the reader with the entire Tractate… Read moreTalmudic Apologetic Presented Katz
From Prejudice to Destruction: Anti-Semitism, 1700-1933, by Jacob Katz. 1982
Includes an Inadequate Talmud Apologetic This book is primarily about anti-Semitism, but the author's treatment of the Talmud overshadows everything else. For this reason, as well as the fact that other reviews already inform the reader about the general contents… Read moreTalmudic Dual Morality Fraade
From Tradition to Commentary: Torah and Its Interpretation in the Midrash Sifre to Deuteronomy, by Steven D. Fraade. 1991
Talmudic Dual Morality Governing Jews and the GOYIM: “It Depends on Whose Ox is Gored” The foregoing teaching appears not only in the Talmud, but in other rabbinical literature. By way… Read moreTalmudic Dual Morality Oz
Jews and Word, by Amos Oz, Fania Oz-Salzberger (Goodreads Author). 2012
Insights Into Chutzpah, What "Whoever Saves One Soul" Really Means, and Talmudic Dual Morality The authors are identified as a father and daughter--one a historian and the other a writer and literary scholar. (p. ix). This volume is a… Read moreTalmudic Dual Morality Silberstein
The Other in Jewish Thought and History: Constructions of Jewish Culture and Identity, by Laurence J. Silberstein (Editor). 1994
Rabbinic Dual Morality Governing Jews and Gentiles: A Real Issue. Futility of Exculpations Of this anthology, I focus on the scholarly work of Steven D. Fraade. He squarely faces the double… Read moreMinorities Can Be Wrong Effron
Real Jews: Secular Versus Ultra- Orthodox: The Struggle For Jewish Identity In Israel, by Noah J. Efron. 2003
Inadvertent Model for Polish-Jewish Relations: Pushy Minority Vs Majority Rather Than Aggrieved Minority Vs Intolerant Majority Although this is not a book on Jewish-Polish relations, I write this review from that vantage… Read moreMinorities Can Be Wrong Flanzbaum
The Americanization of the Holocaust, by Hilene Flanzbaum (Editor). 1999
Should Minority Groups Be Exempt From Criticism? Jews, Holocaust Preeminence, and The Politics Behind the Construction of the USHMM (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) This anthology of articles emphasizes the Holocaust in literature and the arts. I focus on a… Read moreJudaism NonPersecutory No Credit to Jews Brown
Confronting Scandal: How Jews Can Respond When Jews Do Bad Things, by Erica Brown. 2010
The Long History of Jewish Nonviolence Is Not Necessarily of Moral Credit to the Jews This book examines such things as Jewish gangsters in early 20th century USA, financial scandals involving Jews (e. g, Bernie… Read moreJudaism NonPersecutory No Credit to Jews Laursen
Beyond the Persecuting Society: Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment, by John Christian Laursen (Editor), Cary J. Nederman (Editor). 1997
Judaism Non-Persecutory By No Choice. Medieval Rabbi Moses Maimonides, a Progressive for His Time: Punish Christians as Idolaters! This work consists of a series of essays on the subject of religious… Read moreJewish Self Criticism Candor Rubinstein
My Young Years, by Arthur Rubinstein. 1973
A Polish Patriotic Jew Who Stood Up for Poland. Includes Candid Jewish Self-Criticism Rubinstein, an assimilated Polish Jew, is beloved by Poles for his spontaneous display of patriotism. He played the Polish National Anthem, at the very first meeting of the United Nations… Read moreJewish Self Criticism Candor Schechtman
Fighter and Prophet: The Last Years, by Joseph B. Schechtman, Adolph Gourevitch (Afterword).
Violence: Jews Against Jews. Politics of Assassinations. Candid Jewish Self-Criticism This book contains seldom-mentioned information. For example: POGROMS: JEWS AGAINST JEWS The author has an interesting commentary on Jew-on-Jew violence. When Jabotinsky spoke, he often faced well-planned… Read moreJewish Self Criticism Excoriated Alexander
Jews Against Themselves, by Edward Alexander. 2015
Immoderate Criticisms of Jews Who Dissent From Jewish Anti-Polonism and the Preeminence of the Holocaust Author Edward Alexander uses strong terms against modern Jews that do not act in the way that he thinks they should be acting. He refers to them as… Read moreJewish Self Criticism Candor Kahane
Lvov Ghetto Diary, by David Kahane. 1990
Some Jewish Self-Criticism. God’s Punishment of the Jews Entertained. Jewish-Nazi Collaboration Addressed This work discusses the German entry into the Lwow (Lviv) area in 1941, the first wave of killings, the Janowska concentration camp, the local massacres, and the dispatching of Jews to… Read moreJewish Self Criticism Candor Korczak
Ghetto Diary, by Janusz Korczak. 2003
Includes Candid Jewish Self-Criticism. Polish Scholar Ewa Kurek Was Right About “Normal” Jewish Behavior, Which Was Quite Comparable to "Normal" Polish Behavior Owing to the fact that Korczak cared for children, it is not surprising that much of his diary is devoted to this… Read moreJewish Collaboration Reflection Jewish Self Criticism Candor Perechodnik
Am I a Murderer?, By Calel Perechodnik. 1996
No German Guilt Diffusion. Jewish Self-Criticism and Candor. Polish Anti-Semitism Exaggerated. Zydokomuna. Poles Weren’t Glad That Hitler Killed Jews The author was a Jewish ghetto policeman at the Otwock Ghetto. His testimony is unusually fair and lucid. THE GERMANS DID THE HOLOCAUST--NOT… Read moreJewish Polish Relations Two Sides Harring
Poland under the dominion of Russia, by Harro Harring. 2015
An Early Mid-19th Century Snapshot of Russian-Ruled Poland. Polish Nobility Not Feudal. Two Sides on Jews My review is based on the original 1831 English-language edition, a translation from the original German. I focus on a few themes. The author… Read moreJewish Polish Relations Two Sides Lehmann
Symbiosis And Ambivalence: Poles And Jews In A Small Galician Town, by Rosa Lehmann. 2001
Poles and Jews: No Black and White. Poles Rejoicing at the Holocaust a Myth This book covers the vicissitudes of pre-WWII Polish-Jewish relations in the town of Jaslicka, SW Poland (post-WWII boundaries), from a few… Read moreJewish Polish Relations Two Sides Pennell
The Jew at Home, Impressions of a Summer and Autumn Spent with Him .., by Joseph Pennell. 2018
A Middle View (Judeorealist View) of the Polish Jew and His Conduct Author Joseph Pennell was an Englishman who visited Partition-era Poland and adjacent areas of Eastern Europe. My review is based… Read moreJewish Polish Relations Two Sides Stachura
Poland Between The Wars, 1918 1939, by Peter D. Stachura (Editor). 1998
Organized Jewish Hostility to Poland, Then and Now This book addresses many topics. I focus on a few of them. LEFTISTS AND JUDEOCENTRISTS DON'T LIKE HIM, SO THEY--SURPRISE--CALL THE AUTHOR A NATIONALIST This book has been mischaracterized as… Read moreJewish Polish Relations Two Sides Baskerville
The Polish Jew: His Social and Economic Value (Classic Reprint), by Beatrice C Baskerville. 2018
Polish-Jewish Relations: Two Sides. Jewish Economic and Now Political Dominance. Ritual-Murder Beliefs and Pogroms Condemned by the Church. Eventual Dmowski-Led Boycotts This British author's understanding of Jews is quite different from that of westerners [review… Read moreJewish Chosenness Exculpatory Deflection Morris
Judaism as Creed and Life, by Joseph Morris 1848-1930. 2015
The Hellenization of Jews; Jewish Chosenness; Hellenization (Implications for Endek Policies) My review is based on the sixth edition, published 1929. This work begins with basic issues surrounding the nature of God, faith, humanity, Israel's mission, etc. It then provides… Read moreJewish Chosenness Racialized Kohler
Jewish Theology - also includes an annotated bibliography on select works associated with Jewish Literature and History, by Kaufmann Kohler, Georgia Keilman (Editor). 2011
Racialized Jewish Chosenness Preceded Nazi Racialism My review is based on the original 1923 edition. The author thinks of Judaism as a community invested in the… Read moreJewish Chosenness Repudiated Reconstructionist
Sabbath Prayer Book: With a supplement containing prayers, readings and hymns and with a new translation, by Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation. 2017
Jewish Reconstructionist Prayer Book Repudiates “Jews are Chosen People” This book (review based on the 1945 edition) contains prayers for many different occasions. Many of the prayers are Psalms.… Read moreJewish Chosenness Repudiated Scult
The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan, by Mel Scult. 2013
Jews Transform Societies. Jewish Chosenness (Including Its “Benevolent” Form) Repudiated. Polonophobia. Judaism Nondogmatic Myth In order to form my own opinion of Mordecai Menahem Kaplan without being influenced by that of anyone else, I first read Kaplan myself.… Read moreJewish Chosenness Analyzed Deconstructed Kaplan
Judaism as a Civilization: Toward a Reconstruction of American-Jewish Life, by Mordecai Menahem Kaplan. 1994
Jewish Chosenness Deconstructed: An In-Depth Analysis This work (review based on original 1934 edition) covers many topics, and I consider a few of them. I especially focus on Jewish Chosenness. For more on this specific… Read moreJewish Chosenness Exculpatory Deflection Beker
The Chosen: The History of an Idea, the Anatomy of an Obsession, by Avi Beker. 2008
Jewish Chosenness: An Exculpatory Deflection. Corrections Provided This book is a disappointment. The analysis of Jewish Chosenness is quite shallow and rather exculpatory in tone. The most important practical aspect of the concept of… Read moreJewish Complicity Naliboki Massacre Zebrowski
Mity Przeciwko Polsce, by Leszek Zebrowski. 2012
NSZ Combat, Jewish Massacres of Poles at Koniuchy and Naliboki. Communist Subjugation of Poland MYTHS DIRECTED AGAINST POLAND: JEWS, POLES, AND COMMUNISM 1939-2012 is the title of this Polish-language book. It presents a wealth of information, only some of which I can discuss.… Read moreAtrocities Jewish Deir Yassin Ellis
Remembering Deir Yassin: The Future of Israel and Palestine, by Marc H. Ellis . 1998
The Undeniable Slaughter of Arab Civilians by Jewish Soldiers We hear a lot, in the media, about Poles and Jedwabne. We never hear about Jewish massacres of non-Jews. So let's once hear it. What actually… Read moreKoniuchy Massacre Jewish Complicity Proved Chodakiewicz
Intermarium, by Marek Jan Chodakiewicz. 2016
Media-Silent Fact: The Koniuchy Massacre, Where Jews Murdered Poles. An Inescapable Historical Fact Supported Multiple Nations' Archives The title of this work refers to the lands between the Baltic and Black Seas—the territories that belonged to Poland well before the Partitions. Chodakiewicz begins with… Read moreAntiSemitism Without Jews Accusatory Meme a Retort Wolniewicz Sommer
Wolniewicz, Zdanie Wlasne, by Tomasz Sommer. 2012
A Prominent Polish Philosopher, and Atheist, Upholds Polish Roman Catholic Civilization, and Opposes Cultural Marxism WOLNIEWICZ: HIS VIEWS is the title of the Polish-language work. Author Tomasz Sommer interviews Boguslaw Wolniewicz, a high-level Polish intellectual. The latter does not believe in a… Read moreArmenians in Poland Congenial Unlike Jews Lilien
Thoughts of a Polish Jew, by Artur Lilien-Brzozdowieczki. 2019
Armenians and Jews: Two Entrepreneurial Minority Groups. Unlike Jews, Armenians Were Unswervingly Loyal to Poland, and So Earned Full Acceptance Into Polish Society The setting of this book is Galicia, beginning with Austrian rule and ending with the author’s flight from… Read moreAntiSemitism Polish Real Causes Johnston
Travels Through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland: Along the Southern Shores of the Baltic (Classic Reprint), by Robert Johnston. 2018
Don’t Blame Everything on Poles. British Visitor to 19th-Century Partitioned Eastern Poland Comments On the Everyday Behavior of Poland’s Jews My review is based on… Read moreAntiSemitism Polish Real Causes Konopczynski
A Brief Outline of Polish History: Polish Encyclopedic Publications, by Ladislas Konopczynski, Francis Benett (Translator). 2016
Russian-Made Litvak Problem, and Jewish Separatism, Drove Polish Anti-Semitism. Exceptionally Detailed on the Foreign Rule Over Partitioned Poland The content of this book (review based on original, 2nd edition, published in 1920) starts with… Read moreAntiSemitism Polish Real Causes Laudyn
A World Problem: Jews-Poland-Humanity; A Psychological and Historical Study. / Translated from Polis - Scholar's Choice Edition, by Stefanja Laudyn. 2015
Why Polish Antisemitism. Jewish: Economic Dominance, Usury, Liquor Trade, Germanophilia, Chronic Bad Press for Poles, Bogus Pogrom Accusations, Minorities Treaty Special Rights, etc. Nowadays, books on Polish-Jewish relations adhere… Read moreAntiSemitism Polish Real Causes Moltke
Poland: An Historical Sketch, by Helmuth von Moltke, Emma Sophia Buchheim. 2013
Prussian Helmuth Moltke: In Poland, Jews Exploit Peasants The elder Helmuth Moltke wrote this book in 1832 (p. v), at a time when Poland's partitions, at the hands of her neighbors, had been a relatively recent development, and… Read moreAntiSemitism From Jealousy of Jews A Canned Dodge Berger
The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference, by David Berger. 2001
The “Hatred-Jealousy” Accusation Used to Silence Critics. Jewish anti-Christian Memes Still Operate to the Present Day There are already many reviews of this book that spell out its essential content, and I will not repeat them.… Read moreAntiSemitism in Poland Phony Indignation Bemporad
Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk, by Elissa Bemporad. 2013
Jewish Communists Unequivocally Remain Jews. Jews Suffer From Soviet Communism (Yet Only Blame Polish Anti-Semitism). 1920 War Jews Back Reds. Jewish Leadership of Belarussian NKVD Elissa Bemporad, a Professor of East European Jewish History at Queen’s College of… Read moreAntigoyism Confronted Biale
Hasidism: A New History, by David Biale, David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Gadi Sagiv, Marcin Wodzinski, Arthur Green (Afterword). 2017
The "Christian" Concept of Redemptive Suffering, as Applied to the Holocaust, Has Definite Parallels in Hasidic Judaism This magisterial work is a single-volume encyclopedia on… Read moreAntigoyism Confronted Heilman
Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry, by Samuel C. Heilman. 2000
A Peek Into the Onetime Religious-Based Jewish Separatism and Antigoyism That Once Dominated Polish-Jewish Relations The author, a descendant of Polish Jews, became interested in what the Jews of Poland must once have been like. However, he realizes… Read moreTo see a series of truncated reviews in a Category click on that Category:
categories
- All reviews
- Anti-Christian Tendencies
- Anti-Polish Trends
- Censorship on Poles and Jews
- Communization of Poland
- Cultural Marxism
- German Guilt Dilution
- Holocaust Industry
- Interwar Polish-Jewish Relations
- Jewish Collaboration
- Jewish Economic Dominance
- Jews Antagonize Poland
- Jews Not Faultless
- Jews' Holocaust Dominates
- Jews' Holocaust Non-Special
- Nazi Crimes and Communist Crimes Were Equal
- Opinion-Forming Anti-Polonism
- Pogrom Mongering
- Poland in World War II
- Polish Jew-Rescue Ingratitude
- Polish Nationalism
- Polish Non-Complicity
- Polish-Ukrainian Relations
- Polokaust
- Premodern Poland
- Recent Polish-Jewish Relations
- The Decadent West
- The Jew as Other
- Understanding Nazi Germany
- Why Jews a "Problem"
- Zydokomuna