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Samtida mode eller antisemitism? Demonisering och rasistiska tendenser i medeltidens bildkonst
Get PDFTitle: Contemporary Fashion or Anti-Semitism? Demonization and Racism in Medieval ArtIn the art and the literature of the Middle Ages, fashion was often used as a means of moralizing about society. An important literary source within this particular context is Sebastian Brant’s Das Narrenschiff (1494). Here the late 15th century male fashion is described as “The Jewish style”. A woodcut illustrating the passage shows a young man with a short jacket, tight hose and an extrava-gant hairdo. Brant seems to have meant that this fashion was invented by the Jews in order to corrupt European society, an opinion that appears to have been rather widespread in Germany, as well as in other countries influenced by its culture. This paper examines representations of prophets and other Old Testament characters in late mediaeval mural paintings in Swedish churches. Many of these are dressed in fashionable clothes that are sometimes rather extreme. This may be considered a reference to the “Jewish style” mentioned by Brant. The main purpose seems to have been to ridicule the Jews and to present them as demonic corruptors of Christian Europe. In some cases the anti-Semitic theme is further emphasized by various degrading symbols associated with the Jewry, like sows, owls, jesters and demonic creatures with horns.Keywords: Anti-Semitism, Demonization, Middle Ages, Male fashion, Mural paintin
Jewish studies in the Nordic countries today
No full textThe current 27th volume of Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis is based on a symposium arranged by the Donner Institute in March 2015, under the title: ‘Jewish Studies in the Nordic Countries Today’. All the articles published in this volume were initially presented as papers at this conference and have, through a double-blind peer-review process, been selected for this volume
SOU 1974: 33. Att översätta Gamla testamentet. Remissyttrande av Mosaiska församlingen i Stockholm
No full textA comment by the Jewish congregation in Stockholm on the translation of the Old Testament
How the Talmud works and why the Talmud won
No full textA single document, the Talmud of Babylonia – that is to say, the Misha, a philosophical law code that reached closure at ca 100 C.E., as read by the Gemara, a commentary to thirty-seven of the sixty-three tractates of that code, compiled in Babylonia, reaching closure by ca 600 C.E. – from ancient times to the present day has served as the medium of instruction for all literate Jews, teaching, by example alone, the craft of clear thinking, compelling argument, correct rhetoric. That craft originated in Athens with Plato’s Socrates for the medium of thought, and with Aristotle for the method of thought, and predominated in the intellectual life of Western civilization thereafter. When we correlate the modes of thought and analysis of the Talmud with the ones of classical philosophy that pertain, we see how the Talmud works, by which I mean, how its framers made connections and drew conclusions, for the Mishnah and Gemara respectively. And when we can explain how the Talmud works, I claim, we may also understand why it exercised the remarkable power that it did for the entire history of Judaism from its closure in the 7th century into our own time. These two questions – how it works, why it won – define the task of this presentation
Mera om judiska kvinnogestalter
No full textIn this article the author provides a presentation of influential women in Jewish history. Jewish women have been heads of the family, business women, mistresses, singers, writers. The authors presents the forgotten female Jewish poets of the Middle Ages, doctor Sara from Warburg, the medieval singers Madonna Bellina and Madama Europa, writer San’ya in Yemen, translator Liva of Regensburg, business woman Helena Rubinstein, among others. Jewish women have had significant influence on cultural, religious and political matters in Europe
Holocaust in der Schule – Erfahrungen aus der BRD
No full textThis article explores the education and textbooks on Holocaust in German schools
Blau-Weiss in Stockholm 1916–1925
No full textBlau-Weiss in Stockholm was a youth group the major goal of which was to keep the children of immigrants Jewish. The faith in a national ideal was a means to achieve this goal. Blau-Weiss was a Zionist youth group and advocated in its educational work the “national idea”. This contradicted the “liberal” teaching, then dominant in the Stockholm community, that Jews were not a people not a nationality but only believers in the Jewish faith. The “nationalization” of the Blau-Weiss by-laws was most likely a response to the formation of a Jewish youth organization by the more assimilated, native born Jewish elite closely affiliated with the community. In 1918 more than a year after the founding of Vandrareföreningen BlauWeiss which had until then been the only Jewish youth group in Stockholm, the Judiska Akademiska Klubben came into existence to strengthen the feeling of Jewish belonging and to work for “increased interest in Jewish cultural matters”. This goal would be achieved by lectures, discussions and studies about Jewish subjects
Jøden som djævel
No full textThe Satan figure of the Old Testament is very vague, and merely allegoric. The Devil emerged into prominence only through the encounter between the Christian Church and paganism. Because of their expansionist aspirations, the Church found it expedient to denounce the gods worshipped in pagan religions as demons. In the process their attributes were transferred to the image of the Devil, which in this way was given flesh and blood. Henceforth he was designated the father of all demons. Gradually the image of the Devil merged also with the image of the Jew. The Jew then became Satan’s offspring, the destructive archenemy of all Christianity, almighty as the Devil himself. Even in our enlightened century – when the role of the Devils is thought to be done – the Jew remains as the destroyer of the world. In the image of the Jew – and the Zionist – all attributes and symbols of the Devil survive. Therefore, the same symbols often recur in the anti-Semitic propaganda of the Third Reich and the anti-Zionist propaganda of the Soviet Union and the Arab states. Likewise, both Jew and Zionist are in most cases assigned the role of the real destroyer of the world; at least they are viewed as extremely dangerous
Benjamin fra Tudela. Rejsedagbog
No full textA translation of the travel diaries of the medieval Jewish traveler Benjamin of Tudela
