Books Quote by Jonathan Friedman

“The separation of Christianity from Judaism did not happen simply or quickly. It was not a single event but rather a sometimes painful process…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“A clearly written and passionately argued indictment of centuries of antisemitism that contributed to Nazi extermination of the Jews. Wilensky has read widely, thought deeply, and writes…

— Geoffrey Cocks

“The “age of enlightenment” ended some of the isolation, discrimination, and humiliation Jews had experienced in earlier times in Europe. Jews now had more…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Rather than demand the assimilation of Jews, he rejected them; and instead of trying to convert Jews, he declared them an implacable enemy, not…

— Helmut Walser Smith

“Christianity did not create the Holocaust—indeed, Nazism was anti-Christian—but it made it possible. Without Christian antisemitism, the Holocaust would have been inconceivable.…”

— Michael L. Brown

“Consider the professing Christians in Europe that either endorsed or stood in silent or fearful indifference to the systematic annihilation of the Jews in…

— Dalton Lifsey

“Some books about the Holocaust are more difficult to read than others. Some books about the Holocaust are nearly impossible to read. Not because…

— Carol Rittner

“You could taste antisemitism everywhere; the air of Germany was permeated by it. All the unavoidable consequences of military defeat, revolution, a ruinous inflation,…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Antisemitism did not begin in Germany, or anywhere else, in 1918; Jews had been regarded as dangerous outsiders for centuries, and anti-Jewish feeling usually…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“The racist and colonial idea that the Holocaust began as an elemental explosion of primitive antisemitism arose as Nazi propaganda and apologetics.”

— Timothy Snyder

“In Jewish eyes, ‘anti-Semitism’ is any policy which works against a policy of the Jewish leadership.”

— Israel Shamir

“I became aware of Jews in my early teens, as I started to pick up the signals from the Christian church. Not that I…

— Phillip Adams