(23-03-2020, 10:59 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
The person opposite to the one with the chain has been given an exaggerated hook nose, and he is wearing a large ring. This is entering unpleasant terrain, but was the Jew already associated with avarice/greed? Might his headgear (some kind of skull cap?) also point to the same?
I don't know, but quite a few held high professional positions as translators, scribes, goldsmiths, doctors, etc., ones that were better compensated than most.
When Jews were expelled, I'm almost certain part of the motivation was an excuse to divest them of their possessions (this is not just true of Jews but other minorities, as well, banishment meant looting them). Whether there was an association with avarice, I don't know. The people who expelled them certainly excelled in terms of avarice but it, of course, always seems to be a situation of, "It's okay for me to accumulate wealth but not you."