The red Jews : antisemitism in an apocalyptic age, 1200-1600

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The red Jews : antisemitism in an apocalyptic age, 1200-1600

by Andrew Colin Gow

(Studies in medieval and Reformation thought, v. 55)

E.J. Brill, 1995

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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.

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