Language:
English
Year of publication:
1987
Titel der Quelle:
Sixteenth Century Journal
Angaben zur Quelle:
18,1 (1987) 3-29
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1500-1800
;
Antisemitism History 1500-
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 1500-1800
Abstract:
States that racial antisemitism was not a creation of the 19th century, but arose in the 16th century in the Iberian Peninsula. It was not a result of the Jews' unwillingness to convert and assimilate into society, but precisely because of their conversion and successful integration. Argues that the "limpieza de sangre" statutes, and the Inquisition as the instrument for their implementation, were a means to distinguish between Old and New Christians. Suggests that the racial discrimination in Spain served socioeconomic rather than religious purposes, and that many Conversos collaborated in the implementation of the laws in order to secure their positions. Luther's antisemitism was intended less against the Jews than against Conversos who deviated from his own rigid brand of Protestantism.
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