Download or read book Herald of Destiny written by Berel Wein and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, an Orthodox Rabbi, states that "the Medieval Era is, in Jewish terms, the story of rabbis, scholars, books and calamities." For antisemitism see especially Section V (p. 140-223), "Instability and Disaster, 1100-1600," which focuses on the Crusades, the Black Death, and the persecution of the Jews in Spain, culminating in the expulsion. See also pp. 257-261, "The Reformation, " including antisemitism in Luther's writings and in the early Protestant Church; and pp. 297-298, "Persecution by the Church, " on antisemitism in Poland in the 16th-17th centuries.