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 1 1     |                                      ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX
 2 1     |     Achipelago. ~    ~The problem of anti-Semitism in the Russian Orthodox
 3 1     |       article by Vladimir Borzenco, 'Anti-Semitism and Orthodoxy in Russian
 4 1     |          1995: "The general level of anti-Semitism in Russia is lower than
 5 1     |           there was less evidence of anti-Semitism among Orthodox subgroups
 6 1     |            other words, the level of anti-Semitism in Russia might be quite
 7 1     |              is such a phenomenon as anti-Semitism in the Russian Orthodox
 8 1     |              very dangerous signs of anti-Semitism not so much among the so
 9 1     |             no where in the world is anti-Semitism so openly aggressive as
10 1     |             you know, the problem of anti-Semitism was solved in Western Christianity
11 1     |              pleasant exercise. ~The Anti-Semitism of Russian Orthodox Christians,
12 1     |             West. I do not mean that anti-Semitism could ever be justified,
13 1     |   anti-Judaism. Yet anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism are not inseparably connected
14 1     |          make the distiction between anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism. Now, after
15 1     |              her heritage and reject anti-Semitism. ~What it means to keep
16 1     |              still a possibility for anti-Semitism. The Orthodox position is
17 2     |            aspects of the problem of anti-Semitism in the Russian Orthodox
18 2     |              Orthodox Christians use anti-Semitism to oppose any kind of ecumenical
19 2     |           even attribute doctrinaire anti-Semitism to them - I would like to
20 2     |         problems; among them that of anti-Semitism. ~We all know some of these
21 2     |            pogroms and all manner of anti-Semitism which had occurred even
22 2     |     understand that modern Christian anti-Semitism in Russia with its slogan, "
23 2     |     ideological source of hatred, of anti-Semitism. But conservative Russian
24 2     |              Jews does not terminate anti-Semitism. ~So, we liberal Christians,
25 3     |             problem of the source of anti-Semitism. The main lesson which Non-Orthodox
26 3     |              from Auschwitz was that anti-Semitism is inseparable from anti-Judaism
27 3     |             says that the reason for anti-Semitism began at Sinai.<...> At
28 3     |       connection of anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism, if it is really inseparable,
29 3     |           often feel that to convict anti-Semitism openly as a sin or to speak
30 3     |             say something convicting anti-Semitism. Thus, our hierarchs are
31 3     |            negative attitudes toward anti-Semitism, from an official Sinodical
32 3     |           our Patriarch, once said:" Anti-Semitism is a sin,- then, he added,
33 3     |            never be able to wipe out anti-Semitism just like that, simply having
34 3     |            it is certainly true that anti-Semitism cannot be wiped out immediately
35 3     |             do not speak out against anti-Semitism, it is even less likely
36 3     |         their pastoral voice against anti-Semitism because they are afraid
37 3     |            theology that the root of anti-Semitism lies within anti-Judaism,
38 3     |           abolish the possibility of anti-Semitism without having a positive
39 3     |       RELIGION ?. Did the reason for anti-Semitism really begin at Sinai? To
40 3     |              the Jews left Egypt? If anti-Semitism is a hatred towards Jews,
41 3     |            for example Is. 41.8-16). Anti-Semitism is a hatred towards Jews
42 3     |              precisely the basis for anti-Semitism, not Sinai. This last statement
43 3     |           else than what we now call anti-Semitism. And Paul goes on to say
44 3     |      Moltmann, is the main source of anti-Semitism. The Orthodox Church does
45 3     |              could prevent them from anti-Semitism. Their anti-Semitism, however,
46 3     |            from anti-Semitism. Their anti-Semitism, however, was different
47 3     |               was different from the anti-Semitism of the Gentiles of the ancient
48 Conclu|              raise my last question: anti-Semitism, does it exist? At the first
49 Conclu|               if not absurd. Whether anti-Semitism is not a fact of an everyday
50 Conclu|           what is widespread, is not anti-Semitism, if we define anti-Semitism
51 Conclu|          anti-Semitism, if we define anti-Semitism as a hatred towards the
52 Conclu|          Nazi-Germans. However, this anti-Semitism is not a pure anti-Semitism.
53 Conclu|          anti-Semitism is not a pure anti-Semitism. Or, better, it is not anti-Semitism
54 Conclu| anti-Semitism. Or, better, it is not anti-Semitism at all. The Jews were hated
55 Conclu|         There is yet another kind of anti-Semitism, so-called Christian anti-Semitism.
56 Conclu|   anti-Semitism, so-called Christian anti-Semitism. It consists of a hatred
57 Conclu|        consider yet another type of "anti-Semitism", namely the hatred towards
58 Conclu|         there is a sort of primitive anti-Semitism, when the Jews are hated
59 Conclu|            have made above that pure anti-Semitism is impossible. Yes, it is
60 Conclu|             impossible, if we define anti-Semitism as a hatred towards the
61 Conclu|           simply disappear. But even anti-Semitism of Marx is not the last
62 Conclu|              is not the last type of anti-Semitism, not the pure one. Marx
63 Conclu|              Jews really exist. This anti-Semitism is the only pure one, because
64 Conclu|            because in its substance "anti-Semitism" means negation of the Semites (
65 Conclu|           race, which is a source of anti-Semitism. If we get rid of this idea,
66 Conclu|              overcome the problem of anti-Semitism, and the problem of all
67 Conclu|          Christian anti-Judaism, and anti-Semitism was often a reaction to
68 Conclu|             G. Gager "The Origins of anti-Semitism, Oxford University Press,
69 Conclu|              using anti-Judaism (and anti-Semitism) as its tool. ~I do not
70 Conclu|          have come, if not only this anti-Semitism in the Orthodox Church. ~