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Christianity, with its fiery drive to convert the Jews, has proven to be the most formidable of all majority cultures we have had to live with. Rabbi Wein moves us through the centuries, exploring everything from the Crusades to the Spanish Inquisition. But the most insidious and effective approach of all was flattery. Those rare periods of peaceful relations with the Christian world allowed many of their customs to infiltrate ours. Listeners are sure to be surprised by the Christian influence on the Jewish world as we know it.