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"Judaism Unmasked" - Johann Andreas Eisenmenger - Frankfurt, 1711 - "Encyclopedia of Jew Hatred"
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"Judaism Unmasked" - Johann Andreas Eisenmenger - Frankfurt, 1711 - "Encyclopedia of Jew Hatred"
Entdecktes Judenthum, oder Gründlicher und wahrhaffter Bericht, welchergestalt die verstockte Juden die Hochheilige Dreyeinigkeit, Gott Vater. erschrecklicher Weise lästern - Judaism Unmasked - a thorough and true account of the horrifying manner in which the obstinate Jews slander the Holy Trinity and put it to shame, by Johann Andreas Eisenmenger. [Frankfurt am Main], 1711. Two parts bound together in a thick volume. A separate title page for each part. German and many quotes in Hebrew.
Johann Andreas Eisenmenger (1704-1654) - German orientalist and professor of Semitic languages, is considered one of the forerunners of anti-Semitism in modern times. His work was called by the writer and historian Shimon Dubnov "Encyclopedia of Jew Hatred". Eisenmenger was well versed in the Bible, the Talmud and the Chazal literature, and was in contact with Jewish sages and rabbis, with the aim of collecting quotations from the Jewish sources in condemnation of the Christian faith. Between the years 1681-1680 he stayed in Amsterdam, and in 1686 he was appointed a lecturer of Semitic languages at the University of Heidelberg. In Amsterdam, Eisenmenger began to formulate his anti-Jewish positions and his anti-Semitic ideas. For 19 years he presented himself as a person who seeks the closeness of Judaism and wants to study its origins with the aim of converting. Eisenmenger saw Judaism as a serious danger to Christianity, and feared that the majority of Christians would be tempted to convert to Judaism, and therefore looked for things in Jewish literature that would cause Christians to distance themselves from it. In order to study the Jewish sources, he resorted to the trick of approaching the Jews and gaining their trust.
In 1694 he even printed the Bible in Frankfurt and won the approval of Rabbi David Gruenhut, who called him in the preface "the wisest of nations".
His book Entdecktes Judenthum - "Judaism Unmasked" is a comprehensive work that creates a reliable research-scientific impression against the Jewish religion and its dangers to Christianity. The book evokes in the reader, who has no knowledge of Judaism, the impression of a serious and respectable scientific work. But Eisenmenger did not act in a truly scientific manner. In order to give his book a serious appearance, Eisenmenger employed a number of methods, including taking things out of context, intentionally altering translations of sources, choosing quotes from marginal sources, and making them seemingly the most important, and quoting passages from books written by converts, as if they were taken from Jewish sources. The book is considered one of the foundational books of modern anti-Semitism to this day, and many of the designers of anti-Semitism in the centuries that followed used to quote passages from it in condemnation of the Jews.
[17], 998, 1108 p., 20.5 cm. Original cover with leather spine. Adhesive reinforcements in the spine. Former library copy. Good Condition.
