Language:
German
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Judaica; Beiträge zum Verstehen des Judentums
Angaben zur Quelle:
56,2 (2000) 90-109
Keywords:
Christianity and antisemitism
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
Abstract:
Contends that the Russian Orthodox Church, unlike the Western Churches, did not have an official policy concerning the Jews; this was left to the state. However, the Sacred Tradition (the New Testament and the Church Fathers, including all their fulminations against the Jews) was and still is accepted unquestioningly as the basis of the faith, and thus antisemitism is almost universal among both clergy and laymen. Describes four groups in the contemporary Church, mentioning representative organizations and publications for each: a small group of rabid nationalists and antisemites; the main body of churchgoers, whose antisemitism is passive but who can be aroused to action by the first group; the Church hierarchy, which tends not to commit itself; and a small group of clergy opposed to antisemitism, but with little influence. However, judges the danger of pogroms to be slight, because of the declining number of Jews identifying themselves as such.
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