Antisemitism kills.
Mantua Books is pleased to announce that Diane Weber Bederman’s The Serpent and the Red Thread has been selected as part of the collection of the Yad Vashem Library in Jerusalem. Yad Vashem is the leading museum of the Holocaust.
For further information or to book an interview or lecture with Diane Weber Bederman, please contact Howard Rotberg, publisher Mantua Books – www.mantuabooks.com at 226 802-5800 or [email protected].
Rochel Sylvetsky, editor, Israel National News Arutz Sheva wrote:
“This is a hard-to-categorize book. It is filled with biblical verses and midrashic allusions, but its genre is not Judaic Studies. While it contains a plethora of facts and historical perspective, it is not a history book. It is a comprehensive, even detailed record of anti-Semitism from time immemorial, but it is not written as an ordered chronicle of events, nor is it an anthology.
“The red thread running through the book leads to the greatest evil perpetrated by mankind, the unequalled barbarity of the Holocaust, following the rise of hitler (written with a lower case h throughout the book) and German nationalist delusions taken to extremes of pagan madness.
“One way to begin to combat this hate is if the masses of young people, Jews and non-Jewish in high schools and universities, who know so much about intersectionality, moral relativism, liberal progressivism and Palestinian Arab propaganda, but so little about the history of antisemitism – man’s ultimate betrayal of his creation in the image of G-d – are exposed to the hard truths in this book and to the unequivocal denunciation of evil it contains. Read it and see that others do.”
For further information or to book an interview or lecture with Diane Weber Bederman, please contact Howard Rotberg, publisher Mantua Books – www.mantuabooks.com at 226 802-5800 or [email protected].
More about the book.
Available from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Serpent-Red-Thread-Definitive-Biography/dp/1927618134
This is a book, a documentary, about the oldest, most irrational evil: Jew hatred; told through the voices of Biblical and historical figures. Ms. Weber Bederman takes you on a journey through time, sharing the presence of history and our collective memories, beginning where all time begins: The Garden of Eden, where we meet the serpent who has in his mouth the red thread which he takes with him as it connects evil through time. Ms Weber Bederman has chosen to incorporate the Chinese literary device, the red thread, to connect the most evil of humankind, the Amaleks of history. The ones who spread irrational hate.
All of the events are historical, factual, and sometimes shared through the stories of the characters: Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jesus, Paul and hitler. One need not be a student of the bible or history to follow the travels of the red thread woven by the serpent from the Garden to the present.
The Red Thread of Evil has found yet another home in the hands of another group, the followers of the religion of Allah, who are intent on accomplishing what no other regime or culture had been able to do: to wipe the Jews off the face of the earth. Alarmingly, they have found many in the West who make themselves willing accomplices in the campaign of lies and distortions against Israel and the Jewish people elsewhere.
This latter-day incarnation of Evil frequently finds accomplices among young people, uneducated and uninformed and easily taken in by extremist diatribes.
That is why it is so important that this small volume with its treasure of information presented in a readable, even gripping narrative is placed into the hands of a wider public, but most especially impressionable youths in universities and high schools. A timely document that will enlighten those who are receptive to thought and the truth.
Praise for Diane Bederman’s The Serpent and the Red Thread:
“It is quite an achievement. It’s the kind of project–terrifying, daunting–that most writers wouldn’t even contemplate, let alone carry through–and (she) did it with style and power. It is riveting.”— Janice Fiamengo, Professor of English at the University of Ottawa
“Poetic, mystical, and prophetic, The Serpent and the Red Thread is a unique, unflinching look at the history of Jew-hatred from Biblical era persecution through the Holocaust to today’s Muslim Brotherhood. It is an essential reminder that the Jewish people have always been stalked by evil, and yet always prevail.” — Mark Tapson, Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and author of Chivalry and the War on Men
“Drawing upon history and characters like Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jesus, Paul and ‘hitler’, Bederman lays bare the human dichotomy between good and evil, and love and hate. Exposing the tug-of-war within the human soul and influenced by cultural impact, this book provides a creative, enlightening and much needed crash course in human responsibility. The Serpent renders an inescapable call to confront one’s deeper consciousness and the question to one’s self: can one remain neutral and in denial in the face of egregious evil without bearing a degree of culpability? as witnessed in the Holocaust.”— Christine Douglass-Williams, International award-winning Journalist and best-selling Author of The Challenge of Modernizing Islam
“From humanity’s first encounter with evil up until our present time, author Diane Weber Bederman lays out the unparalleled, irrational hate of the Jewish people. With often chilling prose, she takes us down the historical paths of nations, religions and ideologies to uncover the webs that trapped and devoured the people who gifted the world with compassion and ethics. Citing often unfamiliar sources, the author unravels the thread of hate that ran through primitive times yet also through the likes of the Enlightenment. It was the progression birthed in the Enlightenment that promised to better society, It was the same progression that set the stage for the unparalleled and unprecedented pinnacle of enmity – the Holocaust. Passionate, personal, and presenting the facts, this is much more than a book. It is an indictment on a world that has forgotten that the mass industrial murder of 6 million Jews on Europe’s soil was done in the name of culture and progression. It is a cry from the heart, a warning. The serpent of antisemitism has never been apprehended. It is on the loose again and it’s ravenous for Jews. Today it leashes it’s venom at the Jewish homeland. The author burdens us with the freedom of choice. Whoever we are, we have a moral duty to combat this hate that in living memory saw to the annihilation of millions of human beings in the name of progression.” — Kay Wilson, author of The Rage Less Traveled
The Serpent and the Red Thread chronicles the miasmal hatred, pogroms, and ruthless antisemitism that continues to persecute the Jewish people today. Bederman manages to bring beauty to this horror, which makes her book an engrossing read for students and scholars alike. Diane Weber Bederman offers the reader a fascinating documentary of antisemitism and its inspiration from ancient times until today. Bederman deftly follows the red thread of antisemitism that begins in the Garden of Eden, threads its way through the descendants of Amalek, Adolph Hitler, and finally into the 21st century where Islamic Jew hatred is Hitlerian in intensity.— Linda Goudsmit, author of Dear America: Who’s Driving the Bus? and children’s series Mimi’s STRATEGY
“This book may provide a reference to our present day world leadership in terms of curbing this hatred. Dealing with controversial and messy religious and political history is not an easy task. Holocaust denial and growing antisemitism can never be addressed precisely without addressing the root causes of these hateful attitudes. — Tahir Aslam Gora television producer and author
“This is a hard-to-categorize book. It is filled with biblical verses and midrashic allusions, but its genre is not Judaic Studies. While it contains a plethora of facts and historical perspective, it is not a history book. It is a comprehensive, even detailed record of anti-Semitism from time immemorial, but it is not written as an ordered chronicle of events, nor is it an anthology.
“The red thread running through the book leads to the greatest evil perpetrated by mankind, the unequalled barbarity of the Holocaust, following the rise of hitler (written with a lower case h throughout the book) and German nationalist delusions taken to extremes of pagan madness.
“Appearing throughout the book, Abraham, Sarah and Isaac are given the role of the classic Kinot‘s (dirges) mourning figure of Zion, her millions of innocent, murdered children personified in Elie and Sophie whose journeys to the burning furnace brought this reader to tears, while Jesus is an observer who cannot reconcile his message of peace with the blood-soaked way his disciples acted on it throughout history.
“Still haunting this reader is the imagined, unanswerable and oxymoronic question Isaac asks of G-d in the book: Was Abraham’s symbolic act in fulfilling G-d’s will, his binding of Isaac at the altar, incomplete? Had he actually been sacrificed, would his descendants have been spared? Is that the real meaning of the story?
Tracing this generation’s thread, Bederman does not mince words about Obama’s UN treachery, Iran’s role as the modern Amalek, anti-Semitic Western media and universities, BDS supporting European nations, Democrats, churches, antisemitic NGOs and African-Americans, all willing accomplices in the campaign of lies, distortions and violence against Israel and the Jewish people – the people who miraculously have returned to life from the Valley of the Dried Bones.
“One way to begin to combat this hate is if the masses of young people, Jews and non-Jewis in high schools and universities, who know so much about intersectionality, moral relativism, liberal progressivism and Palestinian Arab propaganda, but so little about the history of antisemitism – man’s ultimate betrayal of his creation in the image of G-d – are exposed to the hard truths in this book and to the unequivocal denunciation of evil it contains. Read it and see that others do.”– Rochel Sylvetsky, editor, Israel National News Arutz Sheva
Available from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Serpent-Red-Thread-Definitive-Biography/dp/1927618134
For further information or to book an interview or lecture with Diane Weber Bederman, please contact Howard Rotberg, publisher Mantua Books – www.mantuabooks.com at 226 802-5800 or [email protected].
