ABSTRACT
The anti-Jewishness in Hans Folz's carnival plays is a prevalent theme in many Folz studies Judgement. Most scholars agree that there is a difference between late medieval anti-Jewishness and twentieth-century anti-Semitism. Some believe that they are so dissimilar as to be essentially unrelated, but some believe that 'anti-Semitism is just another version of medievalism'. Later studies examine his participation in the movement to expel the Jews from Nuremberg at the end of the fifteenth century. Folz propagated anti-Jewish myths that were integrated into common Christian understanding. Partly through repeating nauseating myths like the blood libel, the long-standing ideology of anti-Jewishness in the late Middle Ages became an integral part of an increasingly popular piety. The culmination of anti-Jewishness and individual Christian piety takes place in Beichtspiegel, carnival plays and other narratives that made Christian life meaningful within its context of society and of Christian belief.
