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Featured Author: Eric Gritsch

Despite its academic approach to the subject, Martin Luther's Anti-Semitism is a very personal book for author Eric Gritsch -- for two reasons. Not only is the retired Lutheran seminary professor an expert in Luther studies (his other books include The Wit of Martin Luther and he was part of the team that translated the American edition of Luther's Works), but he is also a native of the Burgenland in southeast Austria and a survivor of the Second World War. As a young man in the Third Reich, he was a member of the Hitler Youth and witnessed firsthand the devastating effects of Nazi ideology -- ideology that claimed the anti-Semitic writings of Martin Luther as one of the sources of its legitimacy.

An encounter with Viktor Frankl at the University of Vienna after the war forever altered the young Eric Gritsch's worldview. Gritsch writes in the preface to Martin Luther's Anti-Semitism: "The book is dedicated to the Jewish psychiatrist Viktor Frankl. He survived the Holocaust and was one of my first teachers and mentors when I began my theological education at the University of Vienna in 1950; he helped me to become a Christian theologian and historian after my survival as a member of the Hitler Youth during the final days of World War II."

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