History 317 Lecture: Who Are the Jews? Origins of Christianity and Religious Anti-Semitism

Who are the Jews?  

Bible Stories

Abraham

Moses

The emergence of Christianity

Destruction of the Second Temple, Diaspora

Christian anti-Semitism

Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke compared with Gospel of John

Anti-Semitism in the Middle Ages

Crusades

Blood Libel

Defiling the Host

Black Death

Stigmatizing

Usury

Expulsions

Luther and the Jews

Court Jews

The Rise of Polish Jewry

The Great Deluge

Sabbatai Zvi

Rise of Hasidism

Image of the Jew - popular images - "Enlightened" images

Voltaire

Fichte

Kant

Emancipation: American, French, German, Dutch, British, Russian, Romania

Assimilation:  Russia, Britain, France, Germany

Moses Mendelssohn

Rahel Varnhagen von Ense

Origins of Cultural Anti-Semitism

Arndt

"Junge Deutschland"

Richard Wagner

Decline of German Anti-Semitism?

Abram/Abraham | YHWH | Moses | Tanach/Pentateuch | Torah | Talmud | Origen | St. Ambrose | St. John Chrysostom | Agobard | Pope Urban II and the First Crusade (1095) | Johannes Pfefferkorn | Johann Reuchlin | Martin Luther | Hofjuden | Samuel Oppenheimer | Kahal | Pilpul | Israel ben Eliezer/Baal Shem Tov (BEShT) | Tzaddik | "Hep-Hep" riots | Ludolf Holst | Schutzjude | Ernst Moritz Arndt | Gerson Bleichroder | Kreuzzeitung | "Kulturkampf" | Osman Bey | August Rohling |