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The Medieval Archive of Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden (Hardcover)
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The Medieval Archive of Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden (Hardcover)
Series: Religious Minorities in the North
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The significance of religion for the development of modern racist
antisemitism is a much debated topic in the study of
Jewish-Christian relations. This book, the first study on
antisemitism in nineteenth-century Sweden, provides new insights
into the debate from the specific case of a country in which
religious homogeneity was the considered ideal long into the modern
era. Between 1800 and 1900, approximately 150 books and pamphlets
were printed in Sweden on the subject of Judaism and Jews. About
one third comprised of translations mostly from German, but to a
lesser extent also from French and English. Two thirds were Swedish
originals, covering all genres and topics, but with a majority on
religious topics: conversion, supersessionism, and accusations of
deicide and bloodlust. The latter stem from the vastly popular
medieval legends of Ahasverus, Pilate, and Judas which were printed
in only slightly adapted forms and accompanied by medieval texts
connecting these apocryphal figures to contemporary Jews, ascribing
them a physical, essential, and biological coherence and continuity
- a specific Jewish temporality shaped in medieval passion piety,
which remained functional and intelligible in the modern period.
Relying on medieval models and their combination of religious and
racist imagery, nineteenth-century debates were informed by a
comprehensive and mostly negative "knowledge" about Jews.
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