Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
זמנים; רבעון להיסטוריה
Angaben zur Quelle:
95 (2006) 58-69
Keywords:
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 1500-
Abstract:
Studies 67 ethnographic polemical works on Jewish life and customs written in the 16th-18th centuries in Western Europe. They were written mostly by German Protestants, two-thirds of them Jewish converts to Christianity. Focuses on descriptions of customs related to Yom Kippur, in which the writers often stressed minor customs and made fun of them. One of the founders of this genre, the convert Johannes Pfefferkorn, stated that his intention was to help Jews realize the absurdity of their customs and to reveal Jewish anti-Christian sentiments. Some of the writers stressed the fact that the Jews abandoned Scriptures in favor of rabbinic rulings, in order to bolster their views concerning Christian supersession. These works, with their descriptions of Jewish life, replaced medieval anti-Jewish stereotypes, but also stressed the differences between Jews and Christians.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
