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Gerhard Falk

Gerhard Falk

Sociologist, historian.  Born Gerhard Falck in Hamburg, Germany.  Has lived in Buffalo since 1957.  Author of over fifty scholarly works, including Murder:   An Analysis of its Forms, Conditions and Causes (1990), American Judaism in Transition:  The Secularization of a Religious Community (1994), Hippocrates Assailed:  The American Health Delivery System (1999), Stigma:  How We Treat Outsiders (2001), and Man's Ascent to Reason (2002).

Dr. Falk's book The Jew in Christian Theology (1992), which traces the origins and history of Christian teachings about Jews,  includes the only English translation of Martin Luther's violently antisemitic booklet, Vom Schem Hamphoras (Of the Hidden Name).

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