Devil and Jews. Medieval representations of Jews and their connection to modern antisemitism

The sophistication of the Jews in magic and their kinship with Satan would undoubtedly discover the main source of hatred for them in the Middle Ages if we had managed to overcome the reluctance to engage in such research, ”writes Marvin Lovental in the book“ Jews of Germany ”. This is the look based on the gross superstition and lightness, which permeates the Western European culture to its deepest layers.
In the field of the collective unconscious, we will find monstrous images and ideas: a Jew, crowned with horns, a Jew who drinks Christian blood, a Jewish actor and a pedagogue of infection, a Jew who exudes a disgusting, specifically Jewish smell, a Jew who is engaged in black magic and leading the evil eye And damage to others, as well as the secret parliament of world Jewry, which is periodically gathering in order to discuss the next devil"s plan. These images and representations are still tenacious and popular, and they are widely used by official Nazi propaganda for the introduction of the modern version of “scientific” anti -Semitism into the mass consciousness of the modern version of “scientific”