The Racialization of the Jewish Question: The Pseudo-Secularization of Christian Anti-Judaism into Racial Anti-Semitism

Abstract This article explores how the Jewish Question went from being a question of whether to give Jews, as a religious minority, citizenship, to a racial theory of a conflict between the Aryan and Semitic races. It explores the origins of Christian anti-Judaism in Europe and describes how it flar...

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Main Author: Goldstein, Warren S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2020
In: Religion & theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 27, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 179-201
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Christianity / Jews / Religious minority / Antisemitism / Secularism / Racial question
IxTheo Classification:BH Judaism
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
CG Christianity and Politics
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Anti-semitism
B Secularization
B Racism
B The Jewish Question
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Summary:Abstract This article explores how the Jewish Question went from being a question of whether to give Jews, as a religious minority, citizenship, to a racial theory of a conflict between the Aryan and Semitic races. It explores the origins of Christian anti-Judaism in Europe and describes how it flared up during the Crusades, Inquisition, and Pogroms. It then describes how and explains why the Jewish Question became pseudo-secularized into a pseudo-scientific racial anti-Semitism, which culminated in the Final Solution.
ISSN:1574-3012
Contains:Enthalten in: Religion & theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15743012-02703001