Language:
Spanish
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Erytheia
Angaben zur Quelle:
31 (2010) 9-34
Keywords:
Antisemitism
;
Jews Legal status, laws, etc.
;
Jews History To 500
;
Christian converts from Judaism
Abstract:
In 534, the Roman and Byzantine emperor Justinian restored Roman rule in North Africa, putting an end to Vandal domination and to Arianism in the religious sphere, reestablishing the Christian Orthodox cult. This resulted in the persecution of all kinds of heterodoxies, and in the deterioration of the legal and social status of the Jews, who, as monotheists and having enjoyed the tolerant rule of the Vandals, were considered by Justinian as hostile to his regime. Justinian enacted anti-Jewish laws, prohibiting possession by Jews of Christian slaves, severely limiting juridical rights, and abolishing rabbinical autonomy. Several synagogues were also expropriated. In 632, the emperor Heraclius decreed that the Jews must be converted. Some events of forced conversion took place in Carthage, Palestine and Egypt, among other places. Only under the rule of Maurice (582-602) did the situation of the Jews improve, because he renounced forced conversion of the Jews and confiscation of synagogues, although the anti-Jewish legislation was not abolished.
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