![]() The central episode that argues this “ punishment” of Jews is done by the Bible: Judas’s betrayal and the crucifixion of Jesus. Generally, the attitude towards the Jews was developed by the religious reasons, they were always considered “ punished by God”. These helped raise barriers against social and cultural dialogue on both sides, the Christian and the Mosaic world. Clearly, this attitude was fed by the economic success of the Jews, the highly enterprising nature, the endogamy and by the cultural and religious traditions. ![]() Representing a quite complex identity, created by the attitudes they give rise to in others, 2 the Jews were constantly positioned at the margin of the Christian world, especially on religious grounds. On this margin, if not beyond it, in the ranks of the excluded, were those of another religion, who were accepted with difficulty by the orthodox community, if at all: the Jews (sometimes called by the Romanians „ ovrei”, „ jidovi”). This shapes the concept ofsociety’s margin ,1 tolerated or persecuted, depending on the circumstances created by the events of each age. THE JEWSĮligious and social forms framed in the 17th-18th centuries the attitudes, behaviours and feelings that ensured the unity and acknowledgement of the Romanian community members, beyond whom the Other was formed, different by will or by conjuncture. ![]() AT THE „ MARGIN” OF THE ROMANIAN PRE-MODERN SOCIETY. ![]()
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