The Origins of the Holocaust : Christian anti-Semitism

by Randolph L. Braham (Editor)

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85 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

A political scientist and Holocaust survivor whose parents were killed at Auschwitz, Dr. Braham came to the United States in 1948. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics and government and a master’s in education from City College. He received a doctorate in political science from the New School for Social Research. He was a professor at the City University of New York, where he founded the Graduate Center’s Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. He was an expert on the Holocaust in Hungary and was best known for The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary.

Reviews

[Doug Sharp · Rating 3 out of 5]

A collection of essays in response to Hyam Maccoby's writings on the anti-Semetism embedded in the New Testament. None of the respondents refuted Maccoby's central charge of the primacy of Christian theology and tradition in the savagery of anti-Semitism. The discussion is weakened by the central argument of Maccoby's writing, that the root of Christian anti-Semitism depends on the necessity for a "sacred executioner (the Jews.)