Language:
German
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Aschkenas; Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden
Angaben zur Quelle:
10,1 (2000) 9-41
Keywords:
Antisemitism History Middle Ages, 500-1500
;
Antisemitism Historiography
Abstract:
Using examples mainly from Germany, but also from England and France, states that the liberals of the Enlightenment (as well as pietists and Huguenots) saw the persecution of the Jews as part of the Dark Ages from which they were anxious to distance themselves; some also saw it as an element of the bigoted Christian orthodoxy they rejected. Not in all cases, however, did this view lead to more tolerance toward the Jews. Some liberals described the medieval Jews as equally bigoted, and thus responsible no less than the Christians for the persecutions; others found new reasons to hate Jews. Whereas many Jewish writers also saw in contemporary antisemitism a reversion to the Middle Ages, Graetz argued that antisemitism was an abiding phenomenon; the change that gave him hope was not in the Christians but in the Jews, who had begun to defend themselves and to take new pride in their Jewishness.
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