The persecution of Jews in Persia as described in a sermon of the Jesuit Tomasz Mlodzianowski

This article investigates matters relating to Jews and Judaism in the sermons of Tomasz Mlodzianowski, a well-known seventeenth-century Polish Jesuit. Mlodzianowski spent some time in Persia where he claims to have witnessed an expulsion of the Jews. The reliability of his account is questioned, as...

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Main Author: Augustyniak, Anna (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Liverpool University Press [2019]
In: Journal of Jewish studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 70, Issue: 1, Pages: 110-132
IxTheo Classification:AX Inter-religious relations
BH Judaism
KBL Near East and North Africa
Further subjects:B JEWS' attitudes
B SERMON (Literary form)
B Iran
B Religion
B JUDAISM & history
B JUDAISM & politics
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Summary:This article investigates matters relating to Jews and Judaism in the sermons of Tomasz Mlodzianowski, a well-known seventeenth-century Polish Jesuit. Mlodzianowski spent some time in Persia where he claims to have witnessed an expulsion of the Jews. The reliability of his account is questioned, as well as the extent to which his description of Persian policies towards the Jews was based on his own experience or on other sources. Other, contemporary sources of Persian, Armenian and European origin are analysed to distinguish popular tales in that period from actual events in Persia.
ISSN:2056-6689
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of Jewish studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.18647/3399/JJS-2019