Judaism, the Jewish People, and Anti-Semitism

• Jewish Texts:
  • The Babylonian Talmud. Rodkinson translation, 1918, comprising about a third of the complete Talmud. For short summaries of each tract, see the table of contents. --- Sacred Texts
    1. Tract Sabbath.
    2. Tracts Erubin, Shekalim, and Rosh Hashana.
    3. Tracts Pesachim, Yomah, and Hagiga.
    4. Tracts Betzh, Succah, Moed Katan, Taanith, Megilla, and Ebel Rabbathi or Semahoth.
    5. Tracts Aboth, Derech Eretz-Rabba, Derech Eretz-Zuta, and Baba Kama (First Gate).
    6. Tract Baba Kama (First Gate), Part II and Tract Baba Metzia (Middle Gate).
    7. Tract Baba Bathra (Last Gate).
    8. Tract Sanhedrin: Section Jurisprudence (Damages).
    9. Tracts Maccoth, Shebuoth, Eduyoth, Abuda Zara, and Horioth.
    10. Rodkinson's introduction to his translation: an history of the Talmud.

  • Louis Ginzberg: The Legends of the Jews. Very extensive secondary source. Unfortunately only the first four volumes (i.e. the narrative without the notes) have been placed online. --- Philologos

• Interactions with Orthodox Christianity: Theological:
  • Marquette University Seminar on the Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism. A large collection of very interesting scholarly articles, reflecting a wide range of opinions. The director of the seminar is Fr. Alexander Golitzin. --- Marquette University

  • "Against the Jews": Many patristic writings bear this disturbing title. Some indeed appear to the modern reader to be anti-Semitic, although religiously so rather than racially (that is, they express no objection to the Jewish people, only to the Jewish faith.) Many others are directed not against Jews at all, but against Christian "Judæisers" who wish to insert Old Testament Law into Christian practice. The following is a (presently very incomplete) list of patristic authors who wrote treatises "against the Jews"; these works whould be read in the context of their age and of the theological debate between Jews and Christians over the purpose of the Torah.
    • VII Century: St. Leontius of Neapolis

  • The "surprising" failure of Jews to embrace Christianity: A common theme in patristic works.
    • Sozomen: Ecclesiastical History, 1, i: ---SPL

• Interactions with Orthodox Christianity: Various:
  • James Parkes: Legislation Affecting the Jews from 300 to 800 CE. List of relevant civil and canon laws, Eastern and Western. From Parkes' The Conflict of the Church and the Synagogue, New York: JPS, 1934. --- MSBP

  • St. Gregory Dialogus rebuked St. Virgil of Arles for forcibly baptising Jews.

  • Orthodoxy and Anti-Semitism: Opposition to Anti-Semitism:
    • Fr. Sergei Hackel made controversial proposals to alter liturgical texts which he considered anti-Semitic.
      • Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev: Orthodox Worship as a School of Theology. Here a Moscow Patriarchate representative in the West who was frequently at odds with the Sourozh Diocese in the opening years of the XXI Century argues the other side of the case (not defending anti-Semitism, but insisting upon the danger of tampering with traditional texts in the interests of political correctness). --- Orthodox Europe

• Some Jewish converts to Orthodox Christianity:
  • XX Century: Boris Pasternak;