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Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland - A Beleaguered Church in the Post-Reformation Era (Hardcover)
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Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland - A Beleaguered Church in the Post-Reformation Era (Hardcover)
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Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland takes issue with historians'
common contention that the Catholic Church triumphed in
Counter-reformation Poland. In fact, the Church's own sources show
that the story is far more complex. From the rise of the
Reformation and the rapid dissemination of these new ideas through
printing, the Catholic Church was overcome with a strong sense of
insecurity. The 'infidel Jews, enemies of Christianity' became
symbols of the Church's weakness and, simultaneously, instruments
of its defence against all of its other adversaries. This process
helped form a Polish identity that led, in the case of Jews, to
racial anti-Semitism and to the exclusion of Jews from the category
of Poles. This book portrays Jews not only as victims of Church
persecution but as active participants in Polish society who as
allies of the nobles, placed in positions of power, had more
influence than has been recognised.
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