How much pain you must feel
To see your own people’s flesh torn with zeal,
Despite your call
For forgiveness for all.
Yes, many love in your name.
But most blame
The people of your flesh for what few did.
The real executioners are hid.
Is there beneath this blame
A hidden hatred of your name?
Did you know when on the cross
That your kingdom was not won, but lost?
About Me
- Robert Michael
- Bob Michael is an Emeritus Professor of European History at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and has completed a novel, JEWDYSSEOS, poetry, and a screenplay. He has taught at Central European University in Prague, University of Vienna, University of Venice, MTSU, USF, FGCU, and Ringling College of Art and Design. He's the author of The Dark Side of the Church (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); Dictionary of Antisemitism (Scarecrow Press, 2007); Holy Hatred (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) [Nominated for National Jewish Book Award]; several other books and more than 50 articles on the History of Antisemitism and the Holocaust. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Boston University, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Philosophy, and an NDEA Fellow. He served in the U.S. Army at the Pentagon and in Bitburg, Germany, 4th Missile Battalion, 6th Artillery Regiment, 7th Army. He has lived in Boston, NYC, Paris, Vienna, Prague, Venice (Italy), Sarasota, and Murfreesboro, TN. He follows the advice of Socrates and Captain McNelly of the Texas Rangers--a brave man keeps on keeping on.
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