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Podcast: LBI London
Episode: Marked Off in the Eyes of the Public: Anti-Jewish Imagery and the Politics of Prejudice
Description: Sara Lipton
Stony Brook University, NY, USA
Art can be a powerful force in shaping the way we see and think about the world: pictures craft our ideas of beauty and ugliness, good and bad, power and weakness. This lecture traces how medieval Christian images of Jews, originally designed to aid religious devotions, made Christians look at Jews with new curiosity and interest, and drew their attention to previously unnoticed aspects of Jewish life and looks. As images of Jews evolved from benign but outdated Hebrews to caricatured usurers and demonic sorcerers, Christian society developed new – and in...