The Red Jews: Antisemitism in an Apocalyptic Age, 1200-1600

Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-90-04-10255-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 55, 422 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 916 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reform

This book is the history of an imaginary people — the Red Jews — in vernacular sources from medieval and early modern Germany. From the twelfth to the seventeenth century, German-language texts repeated and embroidered on an antisemitic tale concerning an epochal threat to Christianity, the Red Jews. This term, which expresses a medieval conflation of three separate traditions (the biblical destroyers Gog and Magog, the 'unclean peoples' enclosed by Alexander, and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel), is a hostile designation of wickedness. The Red Jews played a major role in late medieval popular exegesis and literature, and appeared in a hitherto-unnoticed series of sixteenth-century pamphlets, in which they functioned as the medieval 'spectacles' through which contemporaries viewed such events as Turkish advances in the Near and Middle East. The Red Jews disappear from the sources after 1600, and consequently never found their way into historical scholarship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gow, Andrew Colin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Antisemitismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew C. Gow was educated at Carleton University (Ottawa), the Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität (Freiburg), the University of Toronto and the University of Arizona (Ph.D. 1993). He is Professor of History at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton. He is the author of The Red Jews. Antisemitism in an Apocalyptic Age, 1200-1600 (Brill, 1995) and editor with Robert Bast of Continuity and Change. Essays in Honor of Heiko Augustinus Oberman on his 70th Birthday.