TY - JOUR
TI - They Are Like Jews: The Role of Jews in Inter-Confessional Christian Polemics in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
AU - Kalik, Judith
TI - They Are Like Jews: The Role of Jews in Inter-Confessional Christian Polemics in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
AB - 
	Jews often appear in Christian polemical literature as clichéd archheretics in the context of inter-confessional Christian polemics, rather than for their own sake, in a polemic directed against Judaism itself. In the multiethnic and multi-religious Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth political conflicts often took the form of religious polemics, and religion served as a central channel for expressing not only religious feelings but also national and political identity. The use of Jews in polemical literature was widespread and can be found in Orthodox polemics directed against the union with Rome, Uniates’ defense of the union, Catholic-Protestant polemics in the context of the Counter-Reformation and in other contexts. This paper examines such use of Jews in inter confessional Christian polemics in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
VL - 2016
IS - No 2 (38)
PY - 2017
SN - 1506-9729
C1 - 2450-0100
SP - 215
EP - 228
DO - 10.4467/24500100STJ.16.010.6221
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-judaica/article/they-are-like-jews-the-role-of-jews-in-inter-confessional-christian-polemics-in-the-polish-lithuanian-commonwealth
KW - Union of Brześć
KW - religious polemics
KW - halakha
KW - Sabbatian movement
KW - Hussite movement
KW - Arians
KW - Kabbalah