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Images of Animosity, Visions of Vengeance: Christian Depictions of Jews, Jewish Dreams of Subversion

Images of Animosity, Visions of Vengeance: Christian Depictions of Jews, Jewish Dreams of Subversion Review Essays IMAGES OF ANIMOSITY, VISIONS OF VENGEANCE: CHRISTIAN DEPICTIONS OF JEWS, JEWISH DREAMS OF SUBVERSION PAMELA BERGER Boston College Epstein, Marc Michael. Dreams of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature. University Park PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. Pp. xix + 180 + 52 illustrations. $40.00 cloth. Schreckenberg, Heintz. The Jews in Christian Art, An Illustrated History. Trans. John Bowden. New York: Continuum, 1996. Pp. 400 + illustrations. $120.00 cloth. In Pope John Paul 11's introduction to The Papal Docurnent on the Shoah, I Ihe called for an examination of the responsibility that Christianity has for "... the unspeakable iniquity of the Shoah." Heintz Schreckenberg's The Jews in Christian Art, An Illustrated History, directly speaks to that issue. Using copious illustrative material, Schreckenberg traces the history of the relationship between Christians and Jews and examines the pictorial as well as some of the textual sources of Christian anti-Semitism in Western Europe. He starts from the premise that the roots of hostility to Jews are "not in the New Testament, but [occur because of] depravities in Christianity after the New Testament period" (14). Demonstrating that visual examples of anti-Semitism were rare in the first thousand years of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Religion and the Arts Brill

Images of Animosity, Visions of Vengeance: Christian Depictions of Jews, Jewish Dreams of Subversion

Religion and the Arts , Volume 3 (1): 96 – Jan 1, 1999

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© 1999 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1079-9265
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10.1163/156852999X00051
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Review Essays IMAGES OF ANIMOSITY, VISIONS OF VENGEANCE: CHRISTIAN DEPICTIONS OF JEWS, JEWISH DREAMS OF SUBVERSION PAMELA BERGER Boston College Epstein, Marc Michael. Dreams of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature. University Park PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. Pp. xix + 180 + 52 illustrations. $40.00 cloth. Schreckenberg, Heintz. The Jews in Christian Art, An Illustrated History. Trans. John Bowden. New York: Continuum, 1996. Pp. 400 + illustrations. $120.00 cloth. In Pope John Paul 11's introduction to The Papal Docurnent on the Shoah, I Ihe called for an examination of the responsibility that Christianity has for "... the unspeakable iniquity of the Shoah." Heintz Schreckenberg's The Jews in Christian Art, An Illustrated History, directly speaks to that issue. Using copious illustrative material, Schreckenberg traces the history of the relationship between Christians and Jews and examines the pictorial as well as some of the textual sources of Christian anti-Semitism in Western Europe. He starts from the premise that the roots of hostility to Jews are "not in the New Testament, but [occur because of] depravities in Christianity after the New Testament period" (14). Demonstrating that visual examples of anti-Semitism were rare in the first thousand years of

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