16-08-2019, 07:40 PM
Just the fact that Synagoga iconography exists on such a vast scale is evidence of anti-Semitism.
I was very uncomfortable trying to write that blog. It's hard to step back sometimes and just describe these beautiful (anti-Semitic) artworks and what happened, when the whole idea of parading anti-Semitism in front of the public in works of art is, in itself, suppression.
I live in a country with freedom of religion. There is a lot of prejudice despite that, but at least it is in our laws that you let people believe what they want to believe.
I am actually hoping that every word I wrote in the Ecclesia/Synagoga blog is wrong (in relation to the VMS), because I don't want to find out that the eye-poking scene is a put-down of the Jewish religion, but if it is, it's our job as researchers to discover it.
I was very uncomfortable trying to write that blog. It's hard to step back sometimes and just describe these beautiful (anti-Semitic) artworks and what happened, when the whole idea of parading anti-Semitism in front of the public in works of art is, in itself, suppression.
I live in a country with freedom of religion. There is a lot of prejudice despite that, but at least it is in our laws that you let people believe what they want to believe.
I am actually hoping that every word I wrote in the Ecclesia/Synagoga blog is wrong (in relation to the VMS), because I don't want to find out that the eye-poking scene is a put-down of the Jewish religion, but if it is, it's our job as researchers to discover it.