Burning Judas

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Burning Judas ( Malhação de Judas ); Debret, Jean-Baptiste, “Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil”, 1831, p. 34

As Burning of Judas , and Judas burning , Jaudusbrennen , Jaurusbrennen or -Fire is known regionally widespread custom in a Holy Saturday Easter fire a doll or a tree or New Year in effigy as Judas Iscariot to burn.

history

" Grand Rababou " (French compound from Grand Rabbah and boo! ), Shown here with stereotypical hooked nose and money in suitcases and bags, is held annually in carnival in Freiburg UEE. burned.
Shooting of Judas on the gallows in Effigie , Santorini , Greece, April 2010

In the past, the custom was often associated with holding the Jews responsible for the death of the divine person Christ . In Germany the custom of burning Judas in effigy was widespread, especially in southern Germany.

After Turks and thousands of Jews accused of collaboration were murdered in the conquered cities during the Greek Revolution , there were renewed outbreaks of Jews in the Kingdom of Greece , which was founded in 1832, in connection with the burning of Judas.

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In Chile , before the cremation, the figure of Judas was decorated with the trains of local Jews and placed in front of the houses of Jewish families. Also in South and Central America, e.g. B. in Brazil , Ecuador, Colombia, the population - against the will of the Catholic Church - hang dolls on the gallows as part of the so-called Queima do Judas (“burning of Judas”) or Malhação do Judas (“abuse of Judas”) , burned or burst with explosives.

In the town of Pruchnik in south-east Poland there is a custom of using a larger than life-size doll that Judas is supposed to present to be condemned to death on Good Friday, hanging on a tree, dragging through the streets, beating with sticks and finally burning. Many children take part in this. The verfertigte in 2019 Judas character had a black hat and sidelocks significant indicator of an Orthodox Jew. The World Jewish Congress commented on this on Easter Monday, April 22nd, and described the events in Pruchnik as a “ghostly revival of medieval anti-Semitism”. Poles also protested against the event in Pruchnik and posted photos online showing that the burning of Judas was carried out before the Second World War.

Web links

Commons : Burning Judas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Wolfgang Benz (Ed.): Handbook of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in the Past and Present, Volume 1: Countries and Regions , Walter de Gruyter, 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil de Jean-Baptiste Debret . Actes Sud. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  2. ^ "Pro perfidis Judaeis" . In: telepolis , Heise Medien, September 6, 2007. Accessed April 30, 2018. 
  3. ↑ Hugo Loetscher: RIVERS WITH A THIRD BANK . SPIEGEL ONLINE GmbH. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  4. ↑ Helmut Brenner: Absorption and Adaptation as Factors of Traditional Music in Latin America . University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  5. ↑ Karl von den Steinen: Through Central Brazil . etnolinguistica.org. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  6. ^ Easter Customs in Latin America: Judas Dolls Burning in Venezuela , International Affiliate Press. April 6, 2015. Accessed April 30, 2018. 
  7. ↑ E. Hoffmann-Krayer, Hans Bächtold-Stäubli: Handwortbuch Des Deutschen Aberglaubens, Vol . IV 1931, p. 800 ff. (Accessed April 30, 2018)
  8. ↑ Venezuela: Trump and Maduro dolls burn in Caracas with traditional Judas burning , RT German. April 17, 2017. Retrieved April 30, 2018. 
  9. ↑ Easter fires are blazing everywhere , Kieler Zeitung Verlags- und Druckerei KG-GmbH & Co .. March 26, 2016. Accessed April 30, 2018. 
  10. ↑ Judas Fire . Trier Center for Digital Humanities / competence center for electronic cataloging and publication processes in the humanities at the University of Trier. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  11. ↑ Carnival - Fasnacht in friborg region . Freiburg Tourism Association. Archived from the original on June 14, 2018. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 30, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fribourgregion.ch
  12. ↑ Bavarian customs bizarre: "The Jew must be burned!" , Hagalil.com. April 30, 2009. Retrieved April 30, 2018. 
  13. ↑ "And Judas burns forever" . In: SAUERLAND Zeitschrift des Sauerländer Heimatbund , Sauerländer Heimatbund eV, March 2013. Archived from the original on May 1st, 2018 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved April 30, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sauerlaender-heimatbund.de 
  14. ↑ "Burn Judas!" . In: Volksfreund , Trierischer Volksfreund, April 20, 2011. Accessed April 30, 2018. 
  15. ↑ Czech Easter - a symbiosis of pagan, folk and Christian traditions . In: Radio Prague , Český rozhlas, April 25, 2011. Accessed April 30, 2018. 
  16. ↑ W. Benz (Ed.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus . Volume 1, 2008, p. 122
  17. ↑ W. Benz (Ed.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus. Volume 1 , 2008, p. 71
  18. ↑ Klaus Hart : Burning Judas (Queima do Judas) - anti-Semitic ritual in Brazil? , 2009
  19. ↑ Leading Jewish group outraged at beating of Judas effigy in Poland. In: The Times of Israel. April 22, 2019, accessed April 22, 2019 .