Anti-Christian anti-semitism

Focuses on the anti-Christian character of modern antisemitism. The antisemitism in the Second Reich that sought to absorb Christianity into its racial ideology sprang up side by side with Christian antisemitism, sometimes in conjunction with it, and somtimes in political opposition to it. The blood libels and accusations in which the persecuted wandering Jew became the symbol of sin and abomination - all these created patterns of prejudice and hatred that could provide a rationale to justify organized violence