Sara Lipton looks at the surprising history of anti-Jewish iconography: “Though anti-Semitism is notoriously ‘the longest hatred,’ until 1000 CE, there were no easily distinguishable Jews of any kind in Western imagery, let alone the stereotypical swarthy, hook-nosed Jew.… When Christian artists did begin to single out Jews, it was not through their bodies, features, or even ritual implements, but with hats.”
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:13:52 +0000
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