The Talmud Unmasked: The Secret Rabbinical Teachings Concerning Christians

by I B Pranaitis

Overview

The Talmud Unmasked: The Secret Rabbinical Teachings Concerning Christians is a controversial book written by I. B. Pranaitis. The book is an expos����� of the Talmud, a central text of Rabbinic Judaism, and its alleged teachings about Christians. Pranaitis, a Lithuanian Catholic priest, argues that the Talmud contains passages that are highly critical of Christianity and that promote hatred and contempt towards Christians. He claims that the Talmud teaches that Jesus was a false prophet and a magician, and that Christians are idolaters and sexually immoral. Pranaitis also argues that the Talmud promotes anti-Semitic attitudes and contains passages that justify violence against Jews. The book has been criticized for its anti-Semitic content and for its selective and biased interpretation of the Talmud. Despite this, it has been influential in some Christian circles, particularly in the early 20th century.The Ingersoll Lecture.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481197885
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	12/08/2012
Pages:	82
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.17(d)

About the Author

Father Pranaitis (1861-1917) was a Lithuanian Catholic priest, Russian Master of Theology and Professor of the Hebrew Language at the Imperial Ecclesiastical Academy of the Roman Catholic Church in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He published The Talmud Unmasked as an anti-Semitic tract called Christianus in Talmude Iudaeorum in Latin in 1892 under the imprimatur of the Archbishop Metropolitan of Mogilev. This tract was subsequently translated into Polish (1892), French (1892), German (1894), Russian (1911), Lithuanian (1912), Italian (1939), English (1939) and Spanish. In 1912, Pranaitis was called to testify as an expert witness in Jewish hatred of Christians in the famous case of Menahem Mendel Beilis. During the course of that trial his credibility rapidly evaporated, however, when the defense demonstrated his ignorance of some simple Talmudic concepts and definitions, such as hullin, to the point where many in the audience occasionally laughed out loud when he clearly became confused and couldn't even intelligibly answer some of the questions asked by my lawyer. According to accounts of the trial, "cross-examination of Pranaitis has weakened evidentiary value of his expert opinion, exposing lack of knowledge of texts, insufficient knowledge of Jewish literature. Because of amateurish knowledge and lack of resourcefulness, Pranaitis' expert opinion is of very low value." The significance of The Talmud Unmasked is as an influential anti-Semitic tract written from a Catholic perspective.