Adversus Judaeos (Greek Kata Ioudaiōn, "against the Jews" or "against the Judeans") are a series of fourth century homilies by John Chrysostom directed to members of the church of Antioch of his time, who continued to observe Jewish feasts and fasts. In order to dissuade his faithful from doing it, the preacher described Judaism and the synagogues in his city in worst possible way. Modern scholars see in Chrysostom's preaching a nourishment for later Christian anti-semitism. Some, e.g. Stephen Katz, go even further saying it was an inspiration for pagan Nazi anti-semitism with its evil fruit of the programme to annihilate the Jewish race. Indeed, during World War II, the Nazi Party in Germany abused his homilies, quoting them and reprinting frequently in an attempt to legitimize the Holoca