Language:
Russian
Year of publication:
2012
Titel der Quelle:
Studia Judaica (Kraków)
Angaben zur Quelle:
15,1-2 (2012) 77-95
Keywords:
Gezerot tah ve-tat, 1648-1649
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Jews Historiography
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Jews
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Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
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Christianity and other religions Judaism
Abstract:
Argues that while the value of Jewish chronicles as historical sources helping to reconstruct the events of Khmelnytsky's pogroms is low, they do have some cultural value, because, in particular, they shed light on relations between Jews and non-Jewish populations in Ukraine. Discusses depiction of events that led to the pogroms, as well as of the Greek Orthodox population, which was the main perpetrator of the massacres: Cossacks, Ukrainian peasants, and Greek Orthodox urban dwellers. The Jewish chroniclers emphasize religious hatred, Edom's hatred toward Israel, as the cause of the massacres, while only rarely (mainly Nathan Hannover) pointing to social causes. The pogroms, in their representations, where predicted by the Scriptures and had the examination of the Jewish faith as their goal. The chroniclers depict the Cossacks and peasants as brutal, deceitful, and hypocritical heathens, whose main motive was hatred of Jews. They recognize, however, that the Greek Orthodox Christians were also a minority, subordinate to and exploited by others, including in some cases Jews.
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