“The” Red Jews: Antisemitism in the Apocalyptic Age 1200 - 1600This 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. |
Contents
Christian and Jewish | 23 |
Antisemitism and Apocalypticism in the Middle Ages | 37 |
The Red Jews in their Native Habitat | 65 |
The Medieval Antichrist and his Jewish Henchmen | 93 |
TABLE OF CONTENTS | 133 |
Approaches to the End | 177 |
The Red Jews in Medieval | 189 |
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The Red Jews: Antisemitism in an Apocalyptic Age, 1200-1600 Andrew Colin Gow No preview available - 1995 |
Common terms and phrases
Alexander's Gate ander Antichrist books antisemitic apocalypticism Appendix auff auß autem belief Bible Biblical Bild des Antichrist called Caspian Mountains chapter Christ Christendom Christian cited Comestor Compendium concerning conflation Deutsche deutschen dicit early modern edition enclosed by Alexander Enndkrist Enoch exegetical fifteenth gebirge gentes geschlecht Gog and Magog gog et magog Gott groß Hebrew Holy iudei Jahrhundert Jerusalem Jewish Jewish Messiah Johannes king kommen land Latin Leipzig literature Luther Messiah Middle Ages middle High German Mittelalters Neubauer omnes Ottoman ouch pamphlet passage popular Prester John printed prophets Pseudo-Methodius quod Rabbi Red Jews Reformation Revelations Sambation selben sicut sint sixteenth century sources story sunt Tatars ten lost tribes Ten Tribes term Red Jews theology Tiburtine Sibyl tradition translation tribe of Dan Tunc Turkish Turks unnd vernacular Victor von Carben volck welt wirt Wolfenbüttel