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This book is the history of an imaginary people - the Red Jews - in vernacular sources from medieval and early modern Germany. From the twelfth to the seventeenth century, German-language texts repeated and embroidered on an antisemitic tale concerning an epochal threat to Christianity, the Red Jews.
This term, which expresses a medieval conflation of three separate traditions (the biblical destroyers Gog and Magog, the 'unclean peoples' enclosed by Alexander, and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel), is a hostile designation of wickedness. The Red Jews played a major role in late medieval popular exegesis and literature, and appeared in a hitherto-unnoticed series of sixteenth-century pamphlets, in which they functioned as the medieval 'spectacles' through which contemporaries viewed such events as Turkish advances in the Near and Middle East.
The Red Jews disappear from the sources after 1600, and consequently never found their way into historical scholarship.
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History of doctrines, Judaism (Christian theology), Antisemitism, Christianity and antisemitism, History, Histoire des doctrines, Antisemitisme, Antisemitismus, Antichrist, Judaïsme (Théologie chrétienne), Christianisme et antisémitisme, Judaisierende, Judaïsme, Christentum, Histoire, Begriff, Antisémitisme, Folklore, Littérature apocalyptique médiévale, AntijudaismusShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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The red Jews: antisemitism in an apocalyptic age, 1200-1600
1995, E.J. Brill
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The Red Jews: Antisemitism in an Apocalyptic Age 1200-1600 (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions)
January 1995, Brill Academic Publishers
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-409) and indexes.
English, German, and Latin.
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