Assignment
In a 10-12 page double spaced. analyzing a primary text or an issue of dispute among historians.
Feel free to expand on the bibliography provided for each topic.
Answer it both with some of the sources I provide AS well as outside information as you see fit. ( no plagiarism) insert bibliography / footnotes as needed. Thank you
1. Should Martin Luther be considered as anti-judaic or anti-semitic? Why?
Martin Luther, selections from "On the Jews and Their Lies," at:
Mark U. Edwards Jr. "Toward an understanding of Luther's attacks on the Jews," Philip F. Gallagher (ed.) Christian, Jews and Other Worlds (1988) pp. 1-19
Heiko Oberman, The Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Age of the Renaissance and Reformation (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984) pp.95-137
Robert Chazan, From Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism Ancient and Medieval Christian Constructions of Jewish History (Cambridge, 2016) 201-236.