During the Tisza-Eszlar blood libel trial in 1883, when August Rohling undertook to attest on oath that Jews practiced ritual murder, Bloch attacked him in the press. He challenged Rohling's competence as a scholar, accused him of lying, and offered him 3, 000 florins for translating a random page of the Talmud. Rohling was forced to sue Bloch for libel, but after two years' investiga...
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Bloch, Joseph S. ---
Rabbi Dr. Joseph Samuel Bloch was a prominent Jewish writer and politician of late 19th–early 20th century. Throughout his entire life he was energetically struggling against anti-Semitism.
I. Fear and Love. Wellhausen, in the chapter Jewish Piety of his History of the Israelites and Jews, says: The motive of morals by which they become religious is the fear of God. God is a severe master. He rules vassals whom he calls from the dust, and again changes into dust. The desire for an impressive formula for the new idea of God appearing in the world together with Christianity, and for a new cognition of God led Wellhausen to the proposition that “the lesson of Christ set ...
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