Language:
English
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2001) 107-122
Keywords:
Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda,
;
Lost tribes of Israel
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism 1500-
;
History
;
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Jews
;
Antisemitism History 1500-
Abstract:
Contends that Menasseh ben Israel's "Mikveh Yisrael" ("The Hope of Israel, " 1650), which claimed that there were members of the ten lost tribes living in South America, influenced messianic and racist movements. Inter alia, John Wilson's 19th-century theory that the Anglo-Saxons were descendants of the tribe of Ephraim led to the founding of the British Israelites. The movement was short-lived in England, but became popular in the U.S., where the Americans were viewed as descendants of the tribe of Menasseh. The movement saw the Jews (the tribe of Yehudah) as attempting to usurp the position of the British Israelites as the chosen people, and it merged with the antisemitic Christian Identity movement in the 1950s. Discusses Christian Identity's association with the Aryan Nations, whose ideology is based on that of the British Israelites.
Note:
In Hebrew:
,
"זמנים" 74 (2001)
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