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Michael powerfully delineates nearly two millennia of the obsessive Christian teachings that dehumanized Jews and the behavior justified, including the numerous calls to rid the world of Jews and Judaism.

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With a full command of both primary and secondary sources, Robert Michael exposes the extent and continuity of Christian racial and theological antisemitism from the earliest foundations of the Church through the Holocaust. Bartrop, Honorary Research Fellow, The Faculty of Arts, Deakin University, and Head of History, Bialik College “Holy Hatred is a masterful, beautifully written study of how Christianity and the churches shaped and sustained a lethal antisemitism for almost two millennia. This work is, in short, a praiseworthy achievement––a model of its kind.”––Paul R. Michael is to be congratulated on bringing light to an area that has in the past all too frequently been darkened by the clouds of superstition, bigotry, and denial. Robert Michael has crafted a timely study which deserves to be read by specialist and non-specialist alike, the better to understand the dynamics of Christian Jew-hatred from the time of the early Church fathers to Hitler and beyond. All that had gone before, it seemed, allowed the Holocaust to happen––indeed, it might be said that the Holocaust was in fact the culmination of the previous twenty centuries of Christian animosity towards Jews, a hostility that only intensified with each passing year. So much has been written about Christian antisemitism, and about the Holocaust, that general readers can sometimes lose sight of the fact that an intimate causal relationship existed between the two. HOLY HATRED: CHRISTIANITY, ANTISEMITISM, AND THE HOLOCAUST Robert MichelĪDDITIONAL PRAISE FOR HOLY HATRED: “This work is a thorough treatment of an immense topic.