Transcript Pre-Nazi Antisemitism “Judenhass-Jew Hatred”

Pre-Nazi Antisemitism
“Judenhass-Jew Hatred”
Hatred of the Jews before the
Modern Era
Introduction and Definitions
Jews
Judaism
Antisemitism
Shoah/ Holocaust
Anti-Judaism
Early Days- competition between Jewish
Sects-The Jesus movement as a sect
The separation and competition between
the early Church and the Synagogue
100-500 Religious Anti-Jewish Polemical
writings
410: Emperor Constantine makes
Christianity the Roman Religion
Jews as “Christ Killers”
Anti-Jewish Laws
Cannot hold public office
Jews Banned from public places
Jews can’t be witnesses in court
Can’t read the Bible in Hebrew
Marriage of Jews and non-Jews
prohibited
Christians forbidden to convert to Judaism
Jews not allowed to proselytize non Jews
The Church and the Later Roman
Empire
Constantine makes Christianity the State
Religion of the Empire
Incorporates Anti-Jewish Church canonical
legislation into Imperial Law Codes
The Church and the Synagogue
The Church as the
Bride of Christ and a
Royal Woman
The Synagogue as a
disgraced blind and
defeated slave
The Crusades
The Jews Defined as Infidels
Crusades 1096
Medieval Images of the Jew
The Jews are
agents of the
Devil and do
the Devil’s
bidding
Jews
worshipping
Satan
Jews with the Devil
Abusing the Host (Communion Bread)
Abusing the host and burning Jews
The Blood Libel
A “modern” Blood Libel Image of
the Jew
Well Poisoning
Judensau
Medieval badges
(Fourth Lateran Council, 1215)
Jewish Hats
Badges and hats
Forcible conversion
Forced Baptisms
and Expulsions
Spanish Expulsion in
1492
The Inquisition
Luther and
the Jews
Luther’s “On the Jews and Their Lies”
Martin Luther (1543)
On the Jews and Their Lies
Burn all Synagogues.
Destroy Jewish Dwellings.
Confiscate Jews’ Holy
Books.
Forbid Rabbis to Teach.
Forbid Jews to Travel.
Confiscate Jewish Property.
Force the Jews to do
Physical Labor
Expel Jews from areas
where Christians live.
The Venice Ghetto
Pogroms in Eastern Europe
19th Century Ukraine and Poland
Antisemitism in europe 20th c
Ritual Murder Accusation in Poland
1899
The Protocols of the Learned
Elders of Zion
The Enlightenment and the French
Revolution
Voltaire
The Storming of the
Bastille
The Enlightenment Contract
The contract of the
Enlightenment:
Individual Freedom of
religion
Toleration
“Religion removed to
the “private” sphere
Everything for the Jew
As an individual but
Nothing to him as a
community
Emancipation of the Jews
Images of the Jew in the modern
era
The Jew as molester
The Wandering Jew
The Dreyfus Affair, 1894
Alfred Dreyfus, a
French Jewish Officer
is put on trial for
treason in 1894 and
convicted on false
evidence
Not exonerated for a
number of years
The Eternal Jew