The Red Jews: Antisemitism in an Apocalyptic Age, 1200-1600: 55 (Studies in Medieval & Reformation Thought) - Tapa dura

'A solid contribution to the history of ideas, which will be of interest to a wide variety of readers.' S.D. Benin, Choice, 1995. 'Gows Studie ist eine faszinierende Exkursion in die Alltags- und Mentalitatengeschichte des Hochmittelalters und der fruhen Neuzeit.' Matthias Zimmer, Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaft.

The German legend of the Red Jews, a medieval conflation of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel with the biblical destroyers Gog and Magog, articulated throughout the Middle Ages and well into the sixteenth century a fundamentally antisemitic strain of popular apocalypticism. This undigested piece of medievalia disappeared as more strictly biblical narratives of the End replaced medieval myth. As a result, the Red Jews have not been noticed by modern historians - though they were a universally-known feature of German apocalyptic belief for over three centuries.