Sara Lipton is a medieval historian; she is a professor of history at Stony Brook University.

Lipton is noted for her work on the medieval origins of the iconography of antisemitism.[1][2] According to Howard Jacobson, Lipton argues that the medieval artistic convention of depicting Jews with a Roman nose, dark skin, and scraggly or pointy beard originated in the 1200s, and were commissioned by Christian authorities as works of art depicting the sinfulness of greed in order to set the pious on a righteous (non-greedy) path to heaven.[3] Jacobson notes that even if the Church's motivation was to discourage sin rather than to promote Jew-hatred, it was "a hard distinction to maintain."[3]

Dark Mirror

Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography (2014) traces the development of antisemitic imagery from the 1000s through the 1400s.[4][5][6][7]

References

  1. ↑ Kahn, Eve (30 October 2014). "Not All Medieval Sacred Art Was Anti-Semitic". New York Times. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  2. ↑ Pearl, Sharrona (8 February 2009). "The Myth of the Jewish Nose". Tablet. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  3. 1 2 Jacobson, Howard (17 April 2019). "Jews and the money myth From Judas to the Brick Lane mural, how the malicious libel about Jewish greed gripped the global imagination". New Statesman. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  4. ↑ Roth, Michael (19 December 2014). "'Dark Mirror,' on origins of anti-Jewish iconography (book review)". Washington Post. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  5. ↑ Chazan, Robert (5 April 2015). "When Did Christian Art Begin Singling Out Jews? (book review)". Haaretz. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  6. ↑ "Dark Mirror (brief review)". The New Yorker. 9 February 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  7. ↑ Christiansen, Eric (9 July 2015). "Two Cheers for the Middle Ages! (book review)". New York Review of Books. Retrieved 22 May 2019.


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