February 25, 2015
Anti-Semitism, Ideology, and Christian Art
Early Christian art contains frequent depictions of Jews but rarely gives them any distinctive Jewish features. Then, around the year 1000, Jews begin to appear in European art with pointy hats, beards, and (later) big noses. In Dark Mirror, Sara Lipton argues that the shifting portrayal of Jews reflected changes in Christian attitudes, as Bernard Starr writes in a review:
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