Protestant Europe
Europe and the Jews:Part 1
In the Shadow of the Church

The Catholic Church was rife with corruption by the time Martin Luther hammered his protestations onto the door at Wittenberg, but much to his disappointment, his theological “fixes” still held no appeal to the Jews. Protestantism did affect them, though – albeit not in the way he intended. From the Reform movement to fundamentalist Christian support of Israel, Rabbi Wein details the strange ironies that Protestantism has brought us.

• love of Hebrew, but not the Hebrews
• the Thirty Years’ War: caught in the middle again
• Kabbalah and its opponents
• the false messiahs of the Middle Ages