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The Medieval Roots of Antisemitism

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The Medieval Roots of Antisemitism

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Continuities and Discontinuities from the Middle Ages to the Present Day

The Medieval Roots of Antisemitism

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The Medieval Roots of Antisemitism book

Continuities and Discontinuities from the Middle Ages to the Present Day
Edited ByJonathan Adams, Cordelia Heß
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2018
eBook Published 9 February 2018
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351120821
Pages 488
eBook ISBN 9781351120821
Subjects Humanities
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Adams, J., & Heß, C. (Eds.). (2018). The Medieval Roots of Antisemitism: Continuities and Discontinuities from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351120821

ABSTRACT

This book presents a fresh approach to the question of the historical continuities and discontinuities of Jew-hatred, juxtaposing chapters dealing with the same phenomenon – one in the pre-modern, one in the modern period. How do the circumstances of interreligious violence differ in pre-Reformation Europe, the modern Muslim world, and the modern Western world? In addition to the diachronic comparison, most chapters deal with the significance of religion for the formation of anti-Jewish stereotypes. The direct dialogue of small-scale studies bridging the chronological gap brings out important nuances: anti-Zionist texts appropriating medieval ritual murder accusations; modern-day pogroms triggered by contemporary events but fuelled by medieval prejudices; and contemporary stickers drawing upon long-inherited knowledge about what a "Jew" looks like. These interconnections, however, differ from the often-assumed straightforward continuities between medieval and modern anti-Jewish hatred. The book brings together many of the most distinguished scholars of this field, creating a unique dialogue between historical periods and academic disciplines.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |16 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|14 pages

Volcanic Archives

Towards a Direct Comparison of Pre-Modern and Modern Forms of Antisemitism
ByJonathan Adams, Cordelia Heß

part I|39 pages

Longest Hatred versus Invented Tradition

chapter 2|11 pages

The Medieval (and Ancient) Roots of Antisemitism

BySteven Englund

chapter 3|12 pages

The Making of Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century Europe as an Invention of Tradition

ByUlrich Wyrwa

chapter 4|14 pages

What Is Antisemitism Like?

An Analogical Approach
ByBrian Klug

part II|38 pages

Antisemitism without Jews

chapter 5|14 pages

Reception of Medieval European Anti-Jewish Concepts in Late Medieval and Early Modern Norway

ByYvonne Friedman

chapter 6|22 pages

The Imitation Game?

Japanese Attitudes towards Jews in Modern Times
ByRotem Kowner

part III|47 pages

Christianity and Antisemitism

chapter 7|10 pages

The Role of Medieval Northern Europe in Generating Virulent Anti-Jewish Imagery

ByRobert Chazan

chapter 8|14 pages

Between Anti- and Another Modernity

Anti-Judaism, the Imaginary Jew, and Catholic Antisemitism in Fin-de-Siècle Poland (1880–1914)
ByGrzegorz Krzywiec

chapter 9|21 pages

The Gospel According to Gibson

Medieval Passion Plays, a Mean-Spirited Nun, and What One Movie Can Tell Us about Jewish-Christian Relations at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
ByJonathan Adams

part IV|38 pages

Islam and Antisemitism

chapter 10|16 pages

Narrating Antisemitism in Historical and Contemporary Turkey

ByBehruz Davletov, Tahir Abbas

chapter 11|20 pages

Arab Antisemitic Discourse

Importation, Internalisation, and Recycling
ByEsther Webman

part V|59 pages

Bodies, Gender, and Antisemitism

chapter 12|21 pages

What’s in a Nose?

The Origins, Development, and Influence of Medieval Anti-Jewish Caricature
BySara Lipton

chapter 13|21 pages

Jewish Bodies in Postcards and Street Art

Changes in Anti-Jewish Visual Polemics
ByIsabel Enzenbach

chapter 14|15 pages

Masculinities, Carnal Israel, and Antisemitisms

ByVictor Seidler

part VI|44 pages

Blood Libel and Ritual Murder Allegations

chapter 15|14 pages

The Ritual Murder Accusation as Medieval Invention

Linking Libels and Boy Martyrs
ByMiriamne Ara Krummel

chapter 16|8 pages

Norwich 1144

Origins and Afterlives
ByMiri Rubin

chapter 17|20 pages

A Rational Model for Blood Libel

The Aftonbladet Affair
ByJonathan Adams, Cordelia Heß

part VII|53 pages

Neighbours

chapter 18|19 pages

“… and order was upset”

Easter, the Eucharist, and the Jews of Prague, 1389
ByMilan Žonca

chapter 19|14 pages

Towards 1391

The Anti-Jewish Preaching of Ferrán Martínez in Seville
ByMaya Soifer Irish

chapter 20|18 pages

“The present causes of past effects”

The Background Beliefs of the Kielce Pogrom (4 July 1946)
ByJoanna Tokarska-Bakir

part VIII|21 pages

Economy and Finance

chapter 21|11 pages

Jewish Usurers, Blood Libel, and the Second-Hand Economy

The Medieval Origins of a Stereotype (from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century)
ByGiacomo Todeschini

chapter 22|8 pages

The Deeper the Roots, the Deadlier the Antisemitism?

Comparing Images of Jewish Financial Control in Modern Germany and the United States
ByRichard E. Frankel

part IX|47 pages

Land and Home

chapter 23|14 pages

The Theology of the Land in Jewish-Christian Relations and Its Role in Misunderstandings between Jews and Christians

ByJesper Svartvik

chapter 24|15 pages

Yearning for Zion in Jewish Tradition

ByRuth Langer

chapter 25|16 pages

Between Eternity and Wandering

The Anti-Jewish Discourse on the Wandering Jew in the Long Nineteenth Century in Germany and Austria
ByTuvia Singer

part X|47 pages

Medieval Roots and Anti-Judaism

chapter 26|17 pages

Europe, Christianity, Violence, and Jew-Hatred

ByVictor Seidler

chapter 27|10 pages

Postface

ByCarlo Ginzburg

chapter 28|18 pages

Which Past for Which Present?

A Reply to Carlo Ginzburg’s “Postface” on Anti-Judaism
ByDavid Nirenberg
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