Joseph Kastein

Who was Joseph Kastein?

Josef Kastein, really Julius Katzenstein, was a German-born writer and jurist. He wrote Eine Geschichte der Juden published by Rowohlt in Berlin in 1931. According to Douglas Reed Josef Kastein was a "A most zealous Zionist historian... who holds that the Old Testament was in fact a political programme, drafted to meet the conditions of a time, and frequently revised to meet changing conditions.... and that the Law laid down in the Old Testament must be fulfilled to the letter." [1/] The Controversy of Zion Douglas Reed