Jakob Jocz

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Jakób Jocz (1906-1983) was a third generation Hebrew Christian, born in Born in Vilnius, Lithuania. He was the son of a Messianic Jewish cabinetmaker.

During a visit to England for a speaking tour his wife gave birth to a child. At the same time, Germany invaded Poland, which made it undesirable for him to return home.

He immigrated to Canada, where he became professor of theology at Wycliffe College in Toronto, Canada. While at Wycliffe, he authored a number of widely read and influential books on the theological relationship between Israel and the Christian Church.

In 1949 he published his main work The Jewish People and Jesus Christ: The Relationship Between Church and Synagogue. Then before his death in 1983, he wrote an impassioned sequel in light of the events of the Holocaust and modern Jewish and Israeli efforts to study Jesus on their own terms ("The Jewish People and Jesus Christ After Auschwitz").

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• The Jewish People and Jesus Christ: The Relationship Between Church and Synagogue, S.P.C.K., London, 1949
• A Theology of Election: Israel and the Church, S.P.C.K., London, 1958
• The Spiritual History of Israel, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1961
• Christians and Jews: Encounter and mission, S.P.C.K., London, 1966
• The Covenant: A Theology of Human Destiny, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI, 1968
• The Jewish People and Jesus Christ After Auschitz, A Study in the Controversy Between Church and Synagogue, S.P.C.K., London, 1981