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Año XXIII, Número 41, enero 2023
Depósito Legal M-34.164-2001
ISSN 1695-6214
Historia Digital colabora con la Fundación ARTHIS
Abstract
History provides us with the knowledge of how Jews have been
persecuted, abused, mistreated and killed in Europe, since ancient times. But
their situation was aggravated when Christianity managed to be declared the
sole and oficial religion in the Roman Empire, deteriorated much more in the
Middle Ages and culminated in Germany with the Shoah in the 20th century.
Laws and actions carried out in pre-modern times against Jews have been
termed “anti-Judaism”; on the contrary, the praxis emanating in modern times
has been described as “anti-Semitism”. The first denomination would have an
exclusivey religiousroot and the second racial. But was medieval anti-Judaism
really free from recism? Was the religious question decoupled from the
ascription of Jews to race? And, in anti-Semitism, aren´t the sacred text of
Judaism still being used to build and legitimize the rejection and threatening
image of the Jews?
With this article-essay, we intend to highlight the posible concomitances
between both ideologies, recognizing, at the same time, that i some nations
the racial aspect predominates (Germany) and in others the religious aspect
(Spain); but without missing in each one neither the one nor the other.
Palabras Clave
antijudaísmo; antisemitismo; cristianismo; religión; racismo; nazismo.
Keywords
anti-Judaism; anti-Semitism; Christianity; religion; racism; Nazism.
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