ABSTRACT
Within pre-modern thought, Jewish masculinities were feminised, and it was suggested that Jewish men menstruate. At the same time as they represented an inner animality as carnal Israel that had to be punished, repressed, and controlled, they were also feminised in ways that in everyday life helped to silence the inner threat. In this chapter, Victor Seidler discusses antisemitic violence as an expression of a militarised Roman/Catholic masculinity.
