Sprache:
Französisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Revue d'Allemagne
Angaben zur Quelle:
27,4 (1995) 451-463
Schlagwort(e):
Luther, Martin,
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Christianity and antisemitism History 1800-2000
Kurzfassung:
Discusses Martin Luther's writings on Judaism, focusing on the one which most influenced 19th century German antisemitism, "Des Juifs et de leurs mensonges" (1543). This text was republished with a commentary only in the first half of the 19th century by Ludwig Fischer, a Lutheran pastor. Fischer emphasized the importance of the "honorable conversion" of the Jews, which was characteristic of Luther's writings in which racial hatred was absent. Stresses that only editions of Luther's writings after 1880 and their commentaries contain elements of racist antisemitism. Surveys editions of Luther's works up to the 1930s and underlines that during the Nazi period, editors of Luther were interested in presenting his writings in such a way as to show the continuity of the German attitude towards Jews as well as justify the policies of the Third Reich. Shows how Luther's commentators changed the purely religious message of his writings into a racial one.
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