Language:
French
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Esprit
Angaben zur Quelle:
190 (1993) 5-35
Keywords:
Crypto-Jews
;
Antisemitism History To 1500
;
Antisemitism History 1500-1800
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews Historiography
Abstract:
Compares the "limpieza de sangre" (purity of blood) doctrine in Spain and racial antisemitism which began in Germany at the end of the 19th century. Describes the process of forced conversion in medieval and early modern Spain and in Portugal, and underlines the limits of assimilation of Conversos, proved by texts showing hatred of Conversos in the same measure that Jews were hated previously. Describes how the "limpieza de sangre" statutes were established and how they functioned from 1449. States that although racial antisemitism in Germany developed separately, similarities between the two are striking. In both countries, baptism promised emancipation but later led to persecution, and in both cases the religious definition of the Jew was replaced by a racial one.
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