ebooks The Satapatha-Brahmana; According to the Text of the Madhyandina School Volume 4 by Julius Eggeling in History

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In this unprecedented work two decades in the making; leading historian Robert S. Wistrich examines the long and ugly history of anti-Semitism; from the first recorded pogrom in 38 BCE to its shocking and widespread resurgence in the present day. As no other book has done before it; A Lethal Obsession reveals the causes behind this shameful and persistent form of hatred and offers a sobering look at how it may shake and reshape the world in years to come. Here are the fascinating and long-forgotten roots of the “Jewish difference”–the violence that greeted the Jewish Diaspora in first-century Alexandria. Wistrich suggests that the idea of a formless God who passed down a universal moral law to a chosen few deeply disconcerted the pagan world. The early leaders of Christianity increased their strength by painting these “superior” Jews as a cosmic and satanic evil; and by the time of the Crusades; murdering a “Christ killer” had become an act of conscience. Moving seamlessly through centuries of war and dissidence; A Lethal Obsession powerfully portrays the creation of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion; the fateful anti-Semitic tract commissioned by Russia’s tsarist secret police at the end of the nineteenth century–and the prediction by Theodor Herzl; Austrian founder of political Zionism; of eventual disaster for the Jews in Europe.The twentieth century fulfilled this dark prophecy; with the horrifying ascent of Hitler’s Third Reich. Yet; as Wistrich disturbingly suggests; the end of World War II failed to neutralize the “Judeophobic virus”: Pogroms and prejudice continued in Soviet-controlled territories and in the Arab-Muslim world that would fan flames for new decades of distrust; malice; and violence.Here; in pointed and devastating detail; is our own world; one in which jihadi terrorists and the radical left blame Israel for all global ills. In his concluding chapters; Wistrich warns of a possible nuclear “Final Solution” at the hands of Iran; a land in which a formerly prosperous Jewish community has declined in both fortunes and freedoms.Dazzling in scope and erudition; A Lethal Obsession is a riveting masterwork of investigative nonfiction; the definitive work on this unsettling yet essential subject. It is destined to become an indispensable source for any student of world affairs.