Language:
German
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Aschkenas; Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden
Angaben zur Quelle:
6,2 (1996) 353-419
Keywords:
Jews History 1500-1800
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 1500-1800
;
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Jews
Abstract:
Except for a brief period in the mid-15th century, relations between Christians and Jews in Braunschweig in the Middle Ages and the early Reformation were relatively peaceable. But the rise to dominance of the more dogmatic and militant wing of Lutheranism in the 1540s led to a heightened anti-Judaism. Under the pressure of Lutheran churchmen, most of the city councils were forced, against their own interests, to impose restrictions on the Jews, especially on the practice of their "blasphemous" religion, and finally to expel them. Traces this process in a succession of towns, especially Braunschweig, site of the largest Jewish community in the region. Duke Julius stood firm in his protection of the Jews, but after his death in 1589 his son cooperated with the Church. Anti-Judaism spread in all sectors of the population.
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