Des Juifs et de leurs mensonges
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- APAMartin Luther. (n.d.). Des Juifs et de leurs mensonges. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/martin-luther/on-the-jews-and-their-lies-von-den-juden-und-ihren-lugen-1543
- MLAMartin Luther. "Des Juifs et de leurs mensonges." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/martin-luther/on-the-jews-and-their-lies-von-den-juden-und-ihren-lugen-1543.
- ChicagoMartin Luther. Des Juifs et de leurs mensonges. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/martin-luther/on-the-jews-and-their-lies-von-den-juden-und-ihren-lugen-1543.
De quoi il s'agit
Des Juifs et de leurs mensonges (1543) : un texte antisémite de Luther.
Contexte et histoire
**Attention : ce texte appelle à brûler les synagogues et les maisons juives, à confisquer leurs livres et à les expulser.** Ce n'est pas une lecture tendancieuse : c'est écrit là. Il est au catalogue parce que la règle de la maison est qu'**aucune œuvre n'est retirée pour son contenu**, et parce que le cacher reviendrait à faire comme s'il n'existait pas. Luther l'a écrit à soixante ans, après des décennies passées à attendre la conversion des juifs ; les nazis l'ont réimprimé et exposé, et les Églises luthériennes d'Allemagne et des États-Unis l'ont formellement désavoué. Qui veut comprendre Luther doit le connaître. Qui le cite doit le citer en sachant ce que c'est.
Contexte éditorial, non une source citable : contrairement aux passages de l'œuvre, ces données ne peuvent pas être vérifiées dans le corpus.
At the beginning of his career it is often said that Luther was apparently sympathetic to Jewish resistance to the Catholic Church. He wrote, early in his career: The Jews are blood-relations of our Lord; if it were proper to boast of flesh and blood, the Jews belong more to Christ than we. I beg, therefore, my dear Papist, if you become tired of abusing me as a heretic, that you begin to revile me as a Jew. However, sometime before 1517, in his Letters to Spalatin, we can already see that Luther's hatred of Jews, best seen in tis 1543 letter, was not some affectation of old age, but was present very early on. Luther expected Jews to convert to his purified Christianity. When they did not, he turned violently against them. It is impossible for modern people to read the horrible passages below and not to think of the burning of synagogues in November 1938 on Krystalnacht. Nor would one wish to excuse Luther for this text. A number of points must, however, be made. The most important concerns the language used. Luther used violent and vulgar language throughout his career: he was not a man to say "manure" when he meant "shit". We do not expect religious figures to use this sort of language in the modern world, but it was not uncommon in the early 16th century. Second, although Luther's comments seem to be proto-Nazi, they are better seen as part of tradition of Medieval Christian anti-semitism. While there is little doubt that Christian anti-Semitism laid the social and cultural basis for modern anti-Semitism, modern anti-Semitism does differ in being based on pseudscientific notions of race. The Nazis imprisoned and killed Jews who had converted to Christianity: Luther would have welcomed them. None of this justifies what follows, but it may help to comprehend what is being written here.…