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Similar La France juive, On the Jews and Their Lies, The War Against the Jews, Anti‑Semite and Jew, "Facts are Facts" |
The Talmud Unmasked (Latin: Christianus in Talmud Iudaeorum: sive, Rabbinicae doctrinae Christiani secreta) is a book published in 1892 by Justinas Bonaventure Pranaitis (1861–1917). The book, generally regarded as antisemitic, is a collection of quotes from the Talmud and Zohar which purports to demonstrate that Judaism despises non-Jews and promotes the murder of non-Jews. Pranaitis drew on the earlier works of Jakob Ecker and August Rohling.
Contents
Presentation of the book
The Talmud Unmasked is a collection of alleged quotes from the Talmud, the Zohar and other Talmudic works purporting to demonstrate that:
- Jews do not regard non-Jews as human beings
- the Talmud contains blasphemies against Jesus and offensive passages about Christians
- Judaism despises non-Jews
- the Talmud urges Jews to do a variety of harms to Christians, such as murder and theft, and teaches that each death of a Christian serves as a substitute for the Temple sacrifices, which would then hasten the arrival of the Jewish messiah.
Structure and themes
A portion of the book's outline is as follows:
Chapter I. Christians are to be AvoidedChapter II. Christians are to be ExterminatedAccuracy and fabrication
Pranaitis could not read Aramaic (the primary language of the Talmud), and probably used works by August Rohling and others as his sources.
The book includes numerous quotes from the Talmud and the Zohar. His ignorance of some simple Talmudic Aramaic concepts and definitions, such as "hullin", was demonstrated during the Menahem Mendel Beilis blood libel case in which he testified as a "Talmud expert".
Antisemitism
Scholars classify The Talmud Unmasked as an antisemitic and anti-Talmudic work, comparable to Der Talmud Jude by August Rohling (1871) and The Traditions Of The Jews by Johann Eisenmenger (1700).
Use by apocalyptic cults
Jeffrey Kaplan describes how the book was used by cults to support apocalyptic theories, particular relating to the end-of-times.