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Child and Cross from the beginning puts children in the center, listening to how they perceive the man on cross. Three initial chapters trace the life of this Jesus bar Abbas according to highly respected sources, in a very human, down-to-earth way from mother's womb to rebel's death. How the picture of the rabbi's deadly torture became the obsessive icon of the West and in an automatic and preconscious way (Melvin Lerner) continues working as the learning tool for Jew-hate is explained thanks to the sensitivity of psychologists like Soren Kierkegaard, Jean Piaget, Helena Antipoff, exposed in 72 pictures. The return of Passion details in Christian views of Jews, the reenactment of those scaring details in thousand years of just punishment, racism as product of inquisition, the cross taboo in German judenknax, the complex of cross and Zionism and the kafkaesque cross judgement of Europe's Supreme Court in Strasbourg are examined before the human obsession with sacrifice itself gets analyzed in The Lamb on Cross whose pegged legs shaped western use of animals more than this Nazarene who in his last action fought precisely animal sacrifice. The final exam Why Johanna fed him vanilla cake and other child's play questions intends to sensitize the reader once again concerning the child & cross issue, well in accordance with the Galilean who called a child and set him in their midst ... Thus Child and Cross is mainly a) an exemplary study about the power of visual images and for respecting children's empathic ways of viewing this world; b) a consistent, comprising and explaining analysis of anti-Judaism by taking serious those human beings that academic research of anti-Semitism deems too small and childish to deal with; c) a contribution to Christian-Muslim-Jewish dialogue by detailed elaboration of not only the Christian symbol's role in the antisemitism that led to Zionism and thus to Gaza, but also of the connecting potential of this man from Galilee

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Dr. Konrad Yona Riggenmann (*1952) wurde 1978 mit einer Facharbeit uber Bertolt Brecht Volksschullehrer, publizierte zwolf Stuck Schultheater und bekam 1994 fur sein New Heimat uber Auswanderer des Nachmarz 1848 den Sieben-Schwaben-Preis fur Mundartstucke. Wahrend sein Bruder bei der Arbeit herausfand, dass er der dritte Kirchenmaler Riggenmann seit 1696 ist, lernte der Lehrer in sieben Jahren Kruzifixprozess plus Gentest, dass seine Familie ganz ahnlich judischer Herkunft ist wie Anna und Mathis Grun. Heute lebt der Autor in dem Land, uber dessen Schulsystem er promovierte und das zur Zeit der Inquisition vielen seiner portugiesischen Marrano-DNAhnen als Gelobtes Land erschien: Brasilien.

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