Language:
English
Year of publication:
2011
Titel der Quelle:
Patterns of Prejudice
Angaben zur Quelle:
45,3 (2011) 225-240
Keywords:
Sisto,
;
Ferraris, Lucius,
;
Talmud Bavli Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Blood accusation
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 1500-
Abstract:
In the 1570s, at the peak of the papal campaign against the Talmud, the Dominican friar Sixtus of Siena published his "Biblioteca Sancta". The book included a series of fragments allegedly extracted from the Talmud, aiming to demonstrate the lack of humanity that the Talmud instilled in the Jews. The text produced by Sixtus of Siena had a long life: various authors from his own time to the late 19th century, and indirectly to the Nazi period, used it in order to demonstrate that the Talmud corrupted the Jews, that this corruption was "in their blood", and that the Jews posed a mortal danger for the Christians. For these authors, the Jewish religous texts, especially the Talmud, were the key to determining the "inborn" character of the Jews, e.g. in the mid-18th century Lucio Ferraris used Sixtus's text to legitimate an expulsion of Jews from Italy. During and after the Damascus affair, various French and English authors used Sixtus's "citations" to demonstrate that the accusation of ritual murder was true. In the late 19th century, these "citations" were used by Roger Gougenot des Mousseaux, René François Rohrbacher, and other French, Italian, and Spanish antisemitic authors, including those of Drumont's circle, in attempts to prevent or reverse Jewish emancipation. Through the latter writers, Sixtus's "citations" were used by the Nazi ideologist Hellmut Schramm in his "Der jüdische Ritualmord".
DOI:
10.1080/0031322X.2011.585017
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