Language:
German
Year of publication:
1987
Titel der Quelle:
Kairos; Zeitschrift für Judaistik und Religionswissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
29,1-2 (1987) 99-103
Keywords:
Jews
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Antisemitism History Middle Ages, 500-1500
Abstract:
A slightly abridged version of a speech delivered in 1985 at the Institute of Judaica, University of Vienna. The legend of an act of host desecration in Brandenburg in 1287 (where the monastery of Heiligengrabe was later built in commemoration) has no historical foundation. The few Jews of the region were on good terms with the Christian population. Anti-Jewish disturbances began only in the 14th century, during the Black Death. Religious hatred for Jews was also expressed in paintings of the Passion, showing Jews in medieval clothes, with pointed hats. Persecution of Jews as heretics, and the expulsions, were motivated by a desire to appropriate their property. Following a host desecration libel in Brandenburg in 1510, 37 Jews were executed. Their story was depicted in 15 woodcuts in the chapel of the Heiligengrabe monastery. Claims that these legends were invented to facilitate attacks on Jews who were protected by the German electors.
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