Jewish Dogs: An Image and Its Interpreters
ISBN: 9780804767897
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Stanford University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Blood accusation -- History; Catholic Church -- Relations -- Judaism; Judaism -- Relations -- Catholic Church; Bollandists;

This book is a study of Catholic teachings on purity, and the anxiety these teachings have generated with respect to relations with the Jews since the time of St. Paul.

Kenneth Stow, now Emeritus, was Professor of Jewish History at the University of Haifa for nearly thirty years. He is author of Theater of Acculturation: The Roman Ghetto in the Sixteen Century (2001), The Jews in Rome, Volumes I and II (1995, 1997), and Alienated Minority: The Jews in Medieval Latin Europe (1992), among others.

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