La conquête de la Terre sainte par les croisés / vue d'ensemble par le duc de Castries ; textes de Urbain II [et al.].
René de La Croix Castries duc de, 1908-1986
ספר| כותר |
The preaching of the First Crusade and the persecutions of the Jews. |
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| מתוך |
Medieval Encounters Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue 18,1 (2012) 93-135 |
| תקציר/הערה |
Discusses how and why Pope Urban II's call to fight Muslims in the East in 1095 stimulated mass violence against the Jews in the West. Endeavoring to solve this paradox, dismisses the explanations given by historians, who saw robbery or the desire to cleanse Christian society of infidels as the main motives of the Rhineland massacre. The main contents of Urban's speech at Clermont was revenge: the call not only to liberate the Eastern Church from the Muslims' tyranny, but also to retaliate for their alleged atrocities and their killing of pilgrims who had come to Christian sacred places. Both Jewish and Christian chronicles depict the crusaders' mutilations and butchery of Jews, desecrations of synagogues, forced baptisms, etc. as revenge and a symbolic replay of the atrocities allegedly perpetrated by the Muslims against Christians in the East. Argues that the behavior of the crusaders and those who joined them in the massacre can be explained by the frustration-aggression-displacement theory, where the Jews served as a convenient substitute for the unavailable scapegoats - the Muslims. The notion that the Jews must be avenged for Jesus' death also played its role as a motive for the massacre. The perpetration of the massacre in the West, rather than in the remote East, gave also those who could not go with the crusaders an opportunity to partake in the sacred revenge. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
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אנגלית |
| מספר מערכת |
990005218750705171 |
| קישורים |
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