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| '''''On the Jews and Their Lies''''' ({{lang-de|Von den Jüden und iren Lügen}}; in modern spelling {{lang|de|''Von den Juden und ihren Lügen''}}) is a 65,000-word ] treatise written in 1543 by the German ] leader ]. | |||
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| Luther's attitude toward the Jews took different forms during his lifetime. In his earlier period, until 1537 or not much earlier, he wanted to convert Jews to Christianity, but failed. In his later period when he wrote this particular treatise, he denounced them and urged their persecution.<ref>, ''JewishEncyclopedia.com''. See also the note ''supra'' referring to ].</ref> | |||
| In the treatise, he argues that Jewish synagogues and ] be set on fire, their ]s destroyed, ]s forbidden to preach, homes burned, and property and money confiscated. They should be shown no mercy or kindness,<ref>Michael, Robert. "Luther, Luther Scholars, and the Jews," ''Encounter'' 46:4, (Autumn 1985), p. 342.</ref> afforded no legal protection,<ref name=Michael343>Michael, Robert. "Luther, Luther Scholars, and the Jews," ''Encounter'' 46:4, (Autumn 1985), p. 343.</ref> and these "poisonous envenomed worms" should be drafted into forced labor or expelled for all time.<ref name=Luther1>]. ''On the Jews and Their Lies'', ''Luthers Werke''. 47:268–271; Trans. Martin H. Bertram, in ''Luther's Works''. (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1971).</ref> He also seems to advocate their murder, writing "e are at fault in not slaying them".<ref>]. ''On the Jews and Their Lies'', cited in Michael, Robert. "Luther, Luther Scholars, and the Jews," ''Encounter'' 46 (Autumn 1985) No. 4:343–344.</ref> | |||
| ==Content== | |||
| In the treatise, Luther describes ]s as a "base, whoring people, that is, no people of God, and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be accounted as filth."<ref>]. ''On the Jews and Their Lies'', 154, 167, 229, cited in Michael, Robert. ''Holy Hatred: Christianity, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust''. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, p. 111.</ref> Luther wrote that they are "full of the devil's feces ... which they wallow in like swine,"<ref>]. ''Luthers Werke''. Erlangen 1854, 32:282, 298, in Grisar, Hartmann. ''Luther''. St. Louis 1915, 4:286 and 5:406, cited in Michael, Robert. ''Holy Hatred: Christianity, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust''. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, p. 113.</ref> and the ] is an "incorrigible whore and an evil slut".<ref name=Michael112>], ''Holy Hatred: Christianity, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust''. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, p. 112.</ref> | |||
| In the first ten sections of the treatise, Luther expounds, at considerable length, upon his views concerning Jews and Judaism and how these compare to Christians and Christianity. Following the exposition, Section XI of the treatise advises Christians to carry out seven remedial actions. These are | |||
| # to burn down Jewish synagogues and ] and warn people against them; | |||
| # to refuse to let Jews own houses among Christians; | |||
| # for Jewish religious writings to be taken away; | |||
| # for ]s to be forbidden to preach; | |||
| # to offer no protection to Jews on highways; | |||
| # for ] to be prohibited and for all silver and gold to be removed, put aside for safekeeping and given back to Jews who truly convert; and | |||
| # to give young, strong Jews flail, axe, spade, spindle, and let them earn their bread in the sweat of their noses.<ref name=Luther2>]. ''The Jews and Their Lies,'' (Publisher: Christian Nationalist Crusade, 1948).</ref> | |||
| ==Evolution of Luther's views== | |||
| {{main|Martin Luther and antisemitism}} | |||
| ===Medieval Church and the Jews=== | |||
| Early in his life, Luther had argued that the Jews had been prevented from converting to ] by the proclamation of what he believed to be an impure gospel by the ], and he believed they would respond favorably to the ] message if it were presented to them gently. He expressed concern for the poor conditions in which they were forced to live, and insisted that anyone denying that Jesus was born a Jew was committing ].<ref name=Berenbaum8/> | |||
| Luther's first known comment about the Jews is in a letter written to ] in 1514: | |||
| {{cquote|Conversion of the Jews will be the work of God alone operating from within, and not of man working — or rather playing — from without. If these offences be taken away, worse will follow. For they are thus given over by the wrath of God to reprobation, that they may become incorrigible, as ] says, for every one who is incorrigible is rendered worse rather than better by correction.<ref>Martin Luther, "," in ''Luther's Correspondence and Other Contemporaneous Letters'', trans. ] (Philadelphia: Lutheran Publication Society, 1913), 1:29.</ref>}} | |||
| In 1519, Luther challenged the doctrine ''Servitus Judaeorum'' ("Servitude of the Jews"), established in '']'' by ] in 529. He wrote: "Absurd theologians defend hatred for the Jews. ... What Jew would consent to enter our ranks when he sees the cruelty and enmity we wreak on them—that in our behavior towards them we less resemble Christians than beasts?" <ref>Luther quoted in Elliot Rosenberg, ''But Were They Good for the Jews?'' (New York: Birch Lane Press, 1997), p.65.</ref> | |||
| In his commentary on the ''],'' Luther is critical of the emphasis ] places on the ], the first five books of the Old Testament. He states that they "undertook to keep the law by their own strength, and failed to learn from it their needy and cursed state."<ref>Martin Luther, ''The Magnificat'', Trans. A. T. W. Steinhaeuser, in ''Luther's Works'' (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1956), 21:354.</ref> Yet, he concludes that God's grace will continue for Jews as Abraham's descendants for all time, since they may always become Christians.<ref>Russell Briese, "Martin Luther and the Jews," ''Lutheran Forum'' 34 (2000) No. 2:32.</ref> "We ought...not to treat the Jews in so unkindly a spirit, for there are future Christians among them."<ref>Luther, ''Magnificat'', 21:354f.</ref> | |||
| In his 1523 essay ''That Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew,'' Luther condemned the inhuman treatment of the Jews and urged Christians to treat them kindly. Luther's fervent desire was that Jews would hear the Gospel proclaimed clearly and be moved to convert to Christianity. Thus he argued: | |||
| {{cquote|If I had been a Jew and had seen such dolts and blockheads govern and teach the Christian faith, I would sooner have become a hog than a Christian. They have dealt with the Jews as if they were dogs rather than human beings; they have done little else than deride them and seize their property. When they baptize them they show them nothing of Christian doctrine or life, but only subject them to popishness and monkery... If the apostles, who also were Jews, had dealt with us Gentiles as we Gentiles deal with the Jews, there would never have been a Christian among the Gentiles ... When we are inclined to boast of our position we should remember that we are but ]s, while the Jews are of the lineage of Christ. We are aliens and in-laws; they are blood relatives, cousins, and brothers of our Lord. Therefore, if one is to boast of flesh and blood the Jews are actually nearer to Christ than we are...If we really want to help them, we must be guided in our dealings with them not by papal law but by the law of Christian love. We must receive them cordially, and permit them to trade and work with us, that they may have occasion and opportunity to associate with us, hear our Christian teaching, and witness our Christian life. If some of them should prove stiff-necked, what of it? After all, we ourselves are not all good Christians either.<ref>Martin Luther, "That Jesus Christ was Born a Jew," Trans. Walter I. Brandt, in ''Luther's Works'' (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1962), pp. 200-201, 229.</ref>}} | |||
| ===Against the Jews=== | |||
| In August 1536, Luther's prince, ], issued a mandate that prohibited Jews from inhabiting, engaging in business in, or passing through his realm. An ] ], Rabbi ], asked a reformer, ], to approach Luther in order to obtain an audience with the prince, but Luther refused every intercession.<ref>Martin Brecht, ''Martin Luther'' (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1985-1993), 3:336.</ref> In response to Josel, Luther referred to his unsuccessful attempts to convert the Jews: "... I would willingly do my best for your people but I will not contribute to your obstinacy by my own kind actions. You must find another intermediary with my good lord."<ref>Luther’s letter to Rabbi Josel as cited by Gordon Rupp, ''Martin Luther and the Jews'' (London: The Council of Christians and Jews, 1972), 14. According to , this paragraph is not available in the English edition of Luther’s works.</ref> ] notes this event as significant in Luther's attitude toward the Jews: "Even today this refusal is often judged to be the decisive turning point in Luther's career from friendliness to hostility toward the Jews;"<ref>], ''Luther: Man Between God and the Devil'' (New York: Image Books, 1989), p.293.</ref> yet, Oberman contends that Luther would have denied any such "turning point." Rather he felt that Jews were to be treated in a "friendly way" in order to avoid placing unnecessary obstacles in their path to Christian conversion, a genuine concern of Luther.<ref>cf. Luther's "Warning Against the Jews" (1546)]; original German text: ''Weimar Ausgabe'' 51:194-196; J.G. Walch, ''Dr. Martin Luthers Sämmtliche Schriften'', 23 vols. (St. Louis: Concordia, 1883), 12:1264-1267).</ref> | |||
| ] writes that "Luther was not content with verbal abuse. Even before he wrote his anti-Semitic pamphlet, he got Jews expelled from ] in 1537, and in the 1540s he drove them from many German towns; he tried unsuccessfully to get the elector to expel them from ] in 1543."<ref name=Johnson242>]. ''A History of the Jews'', p. 242.</ref> | |||
| ] writes that Luther's reliance on the Bible as the sole source of Christian authority fed his later fury toward Jews over their rejection of ] as the ].<ref name=Berenbaum8>]. ''The World Must Know'', ], pp. 8-9.</ref> For Luther, salvation depended on the belief that Jesus was the Son of God, a belief that adherents of Judaism do not share. Graham Noble writes that Luther wanted to save Jews, in his own terms, not exterminate them, but beneath his apparent reasonableness toward them, there was a "biting intolerance," which produced "ever more furious demands for their conversion to his own brand of Christianity" (Noble, 1-2). When they failed to convert, he turned on them.<ref name=Michael1985>]. "Luther, Luther Scholars, and the Jews," ''Encounter'' 46 (Autumn 1985) No. 4:343-344.)</ref> | |||
| ==History since publication== | |||
| The prevailing scholarly view since the ] is that the treatise exercised a major and persistent influence on Germany's attitude toward its Jewish citizens in the centuries between the ] and the ].<ref> | |||
| *Wallmann, Johannes. "The Reception of Luther's Writings on the Jews from the Reformation to the End of the 19th Century", ''Lutheran Quarterly'', n.s. 1 (Spring 1987) 1:72-97. Wallmann writes: "The assertion that Luther's expressions of anti-Jewish sentiment have been of major and persistent influence in the centuries after the Reformation, and that there exists a continuity between Protestant anti-Judaism and modern racially oriented antiSemitism, is at present wide-spread in the literature; since the Second World War it has understandably become the prevailing opinion." | |||
| *]. ''Holy Hatred: Christianity, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust''. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; see chapter 4 "The Germanies from Luther to Hitler," pp. 105-151. | |||
| *Hillerbrand, Hans J. "Martin Luther," ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 2007. Hillerbrand writes: "is strident pronouncements against the Jews, especially toward the end of his life, have raised the question of whether Luther significantly encouraged the development of German antisemitism. Although many scholars have taken this view, this perspective puts far too much emphasis on Luther and not enough on the larger peculiarities of German history."</ref> Four hundred years after it was written, the ] displayed ''On the Jews and Their Lies'' during ], and the city of ] presented a ] to ], ] editor of the Nazi newspaper '']'', the newspaper describing it, on Streicher's first encounter with the treatise in 1937, as the most radically ] tract ever published.<ref>]. , Baylor University Center for American and Jewish Studies, Spring 2004, slide 14. Also see , Vol. 12, p. 318, Avalon Project, Yale Law School, April 19, 1946.</ref> Against this view, theologian ] writes that the treatise had no continuity of influence in Germany, and was in fact largely ignored during the 18th and 19th centuries.<ref name=Wallmann1987>Wallmann, Johannes. "The Reception of Luther's Writings on the Jews from the Reformation to the End of the 19th Century", ''Lutheran Quarterly'', n.s. 1, Spring 1987, 1:72-97.</ref> Hans Hillerbrand argues that to focus on Luther's role in the development of German ] is to underestimate the "larger peculiarities of German history."<ref name=HillerbrandEB>Hillerbrand, Hans J. "Martin Luther," Encyclopædia Britannica, 2007.</ref> | |||
| Since the 1980s, some ] bodies have formally denounced and dissociated themselves from Luther's vitriol about the Jews. In November 1998, on the 60th anniversary of ], the Lutheran Church of Bavaria issued a statement: "It is imperative for the Lutheran Church, which knows itself to be indebted to the work and tradition of Martin Luther, to take seriously also his anti-Jewish utterances, to acknowledge their theological function, and to reflect on their consequences. It has to distance itself from every ] in Lutheran theology."<ref>, November 24, 1998, also printed in ''Freiburger Rundbrief'', 6:3 (1999), pp.191-197. | |||
| For other statements from Lutheran bodies, see: | |||
| *, Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod; | |||
| *", Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, April 18, 1994; | |||
| *, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, July 12–16, 1995; | |||
| *, The Evangelical Churches in Austria and the Jews. Declaration of the General Synod of the Evangelical Church A.B. and H.B., October 28, 1998.</ref> | |||
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| ==References== | |||
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| ==Bibliography== | |||
| *]. ''Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther''. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1978. ISBN 0-687-16894-5. | |||
| *Brecht, Martin. ''Martin Luther'', 3 vols. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1985-1993. ISBN 0-8006-0738-4, ISBN 0-8006-2463-7, ISBN 0-8006-2704-0. | |||
| *Gavriel, Mardell J. ''The Anti-Semitism of Martin Luther: A Psychohistorical Exploration''. Ph.D. diss., Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 1996. | |||
| *]. ''Hitler's Willing Executioners''. Vintage, 1997. ISBN 0-679-77268-5. | |||
| *Halpérin, Jean, and Arne Sovik, eds. ''Luther, Lutheranism and the Jews: A Record of the Second Consultation between Representatives of The International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultation and the Lutheran World Federation Held in Stockholm, Sweden, 11–13 July 1983''. Geneva: LWF, 1984. | |||
| *]. ''A History of the Jews''. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1987. ISBN 0-06-091533-1. | |||
| *Kaennel, Lucie. ''Luther était-il antisémite?'' (''Luther: Was He an Antisemite?''). Entrée Libre N° 38. Geneva: Labor et Fides, 1997. ISBN 2-8309-0869-4. | |||
| *Kittelson, James M. ''Luther the Reformer: The Story of the Man and His Career''. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1986. ISBN 0-8066-2240-7. | |||
| *Luther, Martin. "The Jews and Their Lies". Los Angeles: Christian Nationalist Crusade, 1948. | |||
| *] ''The Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Age of Renaissance and Reformation''. James I. Porter, trans. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984. ISBN 0-8006-0709-0. | |||
| *Rosenberg, Elliot, ''But Were They Good for the Jews?'' (New York: Birch Lane Press, 1997). ISBN 1-55972-436-6. | |||
| *Roynesdal, Olaf. ''Martin Luther and the Jews''. Ph.D. diss., Marquette University, 1986. | |||
| *Rupp, Gordon. ''Martin Luther: Hitler's Cause or Cure? In Reply to Peter F. Wiener''. London: Lutterworth Press, 1945. | |||
| *]. ''The Fabricated Luther: the Rise and Fall of the Shirer Myth''. Peter L. Berger, Foreword. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1995. ISBN 0-570-04800-1. | |||
| *Siemon-Netto, Uwe. . ''Lutheran Witness'' 123 (2004)No. 4:16-19. (PDF) | |||
| *Steigmann-Gall, Richard. ''The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945''. Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-521-82371-4. | |||
| * Tjernagel, Neelak S. ''Martin Luther and the Jewish People''. Milwaukee: Northwestern Publishing House, 1985. ISBN 0-8100-0213-2. | |||
| * Wallmann, Johannes. "The Reception of Luther's Writings on the Jews from the Reformation to the End of the 19th Century." ''Lutheran Quarterly'' 1 (Spring 1987) 1:72-97. | |||
| * Wiener, Peter F. ''Martin Luther: Hitler's Spiritual Ancestor'', Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1945; | |||
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