1. The Nature and Origins of Medieval Anti-Semitism
... than wild beasts. The synagogue is a brothel, a den of scoundrels, the temple of demons devoted to idolatrous cults, a criminal assembly of Jews, a place of meeting for the assassins of Christ, a house of ill fame, a dwelling of iniquity, a gulf and abyss of perdition...they have fallen into a condition lower than the vilest animal. Debauchery and drunkenness have brought them to the level ... who called for the First Crusades in the year 1095, in order to recapture Palestine from the "unholy" land holders. It was an event that would turn into a path of slaughter, the lives of many into...
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