Date/Time
Date(s) - 7 Oct 2015
5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location
Class of 1978 Pavilion, Special Collections Center
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Fall lecture, organized by UPenn’s faculty workshop in Medieval Studies and co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, Art History, Classical Studies, Comparative Literature, Romance Languages, and the Center for Ancient Studies.
Sara Lipton, Professor of History, State University of New York at Stony Brook (http://history.sunysb.edu/blog/saralipton/)
“What’s in a Nose? On the Origins, Dissemination, and Effects of Medieval Anti-Jewish Caricature”
“In this paper I examine the visual sources for the earliest anti-Jewish caricatures, the contexts in which they first appeared, and the means by which they gradually came to shape medieval Christian — and eventually modern European — perceptions of and attitudes toward Jews. I argue that art had an under-appreciated place in the development of western anti-Semitism.”