Three-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award, Jeremy Cohen has written extensively on the encounter between Jews and Christians, among his books are The Friars and the Jews: The Evolution of Medieval Anti-Judaism and Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity. He has taught Jewish history at Cornell University, The Ohio State University, and, most recently, at Tel Aviv University.
"Cohen offers readers a lucid and sophisticated understanding of
the age-old phenomenon of anti-Semitism. From its earliest history
to Mel Gibson, Cohen explores the issues which have allowed this
hateful notion to persist. It is a book which is fascinating,
frightening, and important. It will be of interest to both the
specialist and the lay reader." -- Deborah E. Lipstadt, author of
History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving
"Jeremy Cohen shows exactly how the Christ-killer charge lodged,
like a killer-virus, in the imagination of the West. Alas, he
shows, also, how it remains a mortal problem for Christians, a
threat to Jews -- a germ of further hatred. Meticulous
truth-telling like Cohen's is the only antidote to this ancient
plague." -- James Carroll, author of Constantine's Sword and House
of War
"It would be hard to think of a more consequential myth in western
history than that of the Jews as killers of Christ. Jeremy Cohen
offers a highly readable examination of the myth from its inception
almost two thousand years ago to its continued potent effects
today. Replete with dozens of dramatic pictorial representations
and making use of the latest scholarly research, Christ Killers
offers absorbing, if chilling, reading." David I. Kertzer,
author of The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara and The Popes Against
the Jews
"Christ Killers is a gripping account of a myth that has profoundly
shaped Christian-Jewish relations for two thousand years. Jeremy
Cohen's command of the subject--from the Gospels to Mel's Gibson's
Passion--is magisterial." --James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare
and the Jews and Oberammergau
"Even-handedly and with remarkable erudition, Cohen focuses on
successive versions of the story in a great variety of literary and
artistic forms, contemplating their effects on believers as well as
on the Jews adn Judaism demonized in the Passion narrative. ...An
important book, accessible to general readers."--Choice
"An intriguing and succinct introduction to the tragic and sobering
history of anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism from its beginnings to
the present. ...a lively and accessible account, fascinating to a
general audience and highly useful to specialists. ...Cohen reminds
the reader throughout his book of other ways to read Christian
texts, of biblical, theological, and historical approaches that
ultimately clear the Jewish people of the Christ-killer
accusation.
This multitude of voices, made audible by Cohen, is one great
contribution of his work." --Church History
"This is a book of epic scale, not only spanning millennia of
history but also traversing a wide range of written and visual
forms of evidence."--Erika Tritle
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