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In this profoundly moving and eloquent book, Sholem Asch, "as a Jew, whose every move is bund up with the God of Israel," speaks plainly to his Christian brethren. His spiritual faith is built on the interdependence of Jew and Christian, on the belief that only through recognition of our common heritage and our common goal can mankind achieve salvation. Despite th history of blood and fire and passionate hatred between Christendom and Jewry, his deep conviction is that they are two parts of a single whole, each essential to the other. The ancient Hebrew vision of the one living God was immeasurably expanded by the emergence of Jesus who, more than any other, carried the light to all the nations. If the Jew cannot accept Christian dogma and beliefs, he must nevertheless share the bounty of Christ's teachings. And the true Christian must bow before the God of Israel. But what if he tragic history that divides the two? Mr. Asch faces the ugly facts squarely, from early times down to our own day, as an indictment of that part of the Christian world which is definitely Antichrist. Where there is anti-Semitism there also is the Antichrist, ready to destroy the spiritual power of Judeo-Christian tradition.. But that power is in fact invincible, as the bond of the messianic faith cannot, whatever the strains, be severed. And America has a special mission of healing the world's wounds at this time. This noble statement, by the greatest of living Jewish writers, is a message the world needs.