The Red Jews: Antisemitism in an Apocalyptic Age, 1200-1600

The Red Jews: Antisemitism in an Apocalyptic Age, 1200-1600
Author: Andrew Colin Gow
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2021-10-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 900447806X

This 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.

“The” Red Jews

“The” Red Jews
Author: Andrew Colin Gow
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004102552

The German legend of the Red Jews, a medieval conflation of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel with the biblical destroyers Gog and Magog, articulated throughout the Middle Ages and well into the sixteenth century a fundamentally antisemitic strain of popular apocalypticism. This undigested piece of medievalia disappeared as more strictly biblical narratives of the End replaced medieval myth. As a result, the Red Jews have not been noticed by modern historians though they were a universally-known feature of German apocalyptic belief for over three centuries.

The Red Reign

The Red Reign
Author: Kellogg Durland
Publisher:
Total Pages: 572
Release: 1908
Genre: Russia
ISBN:

The Jews

The Jews
Author: Maurice Fishberg
Publisher: London : W. Scott Publishing Company, Limited
Total Pages: 628
Release: 1911
Genre: Antisemitism
ISBN:

The Red Lily

The Red Lily
Author: Anatole France
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1898
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: