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Medieval Christian Depiction of Jews

The depiction of Jews as sexually deviant in medieval Christian texts, including the feminization of Jewish men and the invention of bodily myths.

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How did medieval Christian texts portray Jews as sexual deviants and what sources propagated these myths?

as sexually deviant by feminizing Jewish men, pathologizing Jewish sexual practices, and inventing bodily myths (such as Jewish male menstruation) that marked Jews as morally and biologically other . ...