Sublime

Jews began to see themselves not as the people loved by God but rather as the people hated by gentiles.

There were, however, two things distinctive about modern anti-Semitism.

Within a century a terrible theology was born: that the sufferings of the Jews—the loss of their Temple, independence and land—were a sign of Divine rejection. Their lowly position was held up as living proof of the truth of Christianity14

Personally, I believe a woman is in view. This was the majority view in the history of the church until at least the thirteenth century. Moreover, a contraction of Junianus is nowhere else found in Greek literature, and so I think we can be confident Junia was a woman.

Rabbi Greenberg explained that we lost 30 percent of the Jewish people during the war, but more than 80 percent of the scholars, mystics, and teachers who could pass on ancient traditions.

After playing a crucial role in the shaping of modern Europe for more than two hundred years—think of Mendelssohn, Marx, Freud, Mahler, Kafka, Einstein—Jews will gradually leave center stage. The golden era of European Jewry will be over.