In Martin #Luther’s little-known booklet (no English translation until 1992) he described Jews as the unforgiveable devil’s children. It was titled “vom Schem Hamphoras - a transliteration of the Hebrew ‘shem ham-e-vorakh’, meaning the blessed name. BUT, in one section he draws on a familiar medieval anti-Semitic image: Here in Wittenberg, in our parish church, there is a sow carved into the stone under which lie young pigs and Jews who are sucking; behind the sow stands a rabbi who is lifting up the right leg of the sow, raises behind the sow, bows down and looks with great effort into the Talmud under the sow, as if he wanted to read and see something most difficult and exceptional; no doubt they gained their Shem Hamphoras from that place... Luther could not have been more insulting and blasphemous to a Jew – suggesting their name for their God was found up a pig’s backside (the most unclean place of the most unclean animal to Jews).
Posted on: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 19:10:03 +0000
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