Arthur Read’s Reviews > The Devil and the Jews: the medieval conception of the Jew and its relation to modern anti-semitism > Status Update

When [Luther] was forced to admit his hope [of Jews converting to his Church] was vain he poured his bitterest recriminations on them…No sentimental pity must be permitted in dealing with the Jewish problem…Christians must undertake energetically…to burn their synagogues, outlaw their blasphemies; to settle the matter once for all, Jews must be driven out of society altogether. An end to this curse upon men!

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Some Jews were unquestionably guilty of acts that aroused & merited ire of their neighbors..Agobard cites child theft in France by Jew slave traders for sale to Moors of Spain..Ferocity of Amerindians pales b4 Dio Cassius' bloodcurdling account of the Jew revolt: "The Jews were destroying both Greeks & Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts out of their entrails, & anointed themselves w/ their blood"

Not only were [Jew physicians] "satanic sorcerers, godless, accursed, Christ-hating Jews," but they knew nothing of medicine anyway & often caused death of their patients through ignorance or malice, for their primary aim was to injure Christians. "When they come together at their festivals, each boasts of the # of Christians he has killed w/ medicine; the one who killed most is honored," runs an inexhaustible theme.

Here…we uncover many a weird notion—of the horned Jew, the Jewish thirst for blood, who scatters poison, the secret elite of world Jewry, meeting to scheme & plot..—notions that still prevail..the spring of the conviction that prompts Jew hatred: an alien, evil, antisocial, & antihuman creature…therefore answerable for the crime of seeking to destroy that Christian civ which in his heart he despises & abhors.

Whether as international Communist or capitalist..he is the archenemy of Western civ. He is alien…to society, in his habits, pursuits, interests, character, his very blood..he is a creature apart. He is the degenerate of the world, infecting literature, art, music, politics & economics w/ his insidious influence..his final goal: to conquer the world, refashion it in his own craven image, enslave it to his own ends.