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Disgruntled Karaite Or Jewish Convert To Christianity, Who Was Nicholas Donin?

Who was Nicholas Donin? Was he simply a disgruntled Karaite who took advantage of the fervid, sympathetic ear of the anti-Semitic church? Or was he a sincere convert to Christianity? Was his motivation for instigating the disputation of Paris in 1240 (which resulted in 3,000 Jewish deaths, 500 forced conversions, and 24 carriage loads of…

Did Replacement Theology Give Rise to Antisemitism? – Tovia Singer

It was now becoming apparent to Christians that the Church, over the course of centuries, had not taken into account the looming presence of the Talmud in Jewish life, nor reckoned with the fact that this text constituted a monumental, and perhaps insurmountable, impediment to Jewish conversion. In other words, when the Church discovered the…