An edition of The red Jews (1995)

The red Jews

antisemitism in an apocalyptic age, 1200-1600

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An edition of The red Jews (1995)

The red Jews

antisemitism in an apocalyptic age, 1200-1600

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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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Publisher
E.J. Brill
Language
English
Pages
420

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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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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-409) and indexes.
English, German, and Latin.

Published in
Leiden, New York
Series
Studies in medieval and Reformation thought,, v. 55

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.892/404/0902
Library of Congress
DS145 .G657 1995, DS145.G657 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 420 p. :
Number of pages
420

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1117284M
Internet Archive
redjewsantisemit0000gowa
ISBN 10
9004102558
LCCN
94043431
OCLC/WorldCat
31609058
Library Thing
8728212
Goodreads
4237306

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