Jewishness, Gender, and Sexual Violence in Early Nineteenth-Century Frankfurt am Main: An Intersectional Microhistory

IF 0.5 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

JEWISH SOCIAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI:10.2979/JEWISOCISTUD.26.2.04

Vera Kallenberg

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Abstract:This article analyzes the criminal procedure against the Schutzjudensohn (son of a protected Jew), Heyum Windmühl, who was charged with raping the six-year-old daughter of a Christian citizen in a case in Frankfurt am Main in the early nineteenth century. In doing so, it engages with three topics currently debated in historical scholarship: sexualized violence, the relationship between anti-Jewish resentment and gender, and marginalized masculinity and intersectionality. As this study posits, Christian criminal justice provides insight into the nature of contact and conflict between Jews and gentiles. The article illuminates the role discrimination played in the anti-Jewish-encoded criminal arena of sexuality and violence while also exploring the patriarchal gender order that shaped the misogynous construction of sexual assault in the case. Finally, it reveals how the mechanisms of criminal procedure, as well as the legal discourses of reform and regulatory interests impacted the verdict and its interpretation. This case evidences the impact of the motif of the "Jew as desecrator of virgins," the Jud Süß (Jew Süß) motif, which constructed Jewish men as rapists of Christian women.

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19世纪早期法兰克福的犹太人、性别和性暴力:一个交叉的微观历史

摘要:本文分析了19世纪初在美因河畔法兰克福发生的一起案件中，被指控强奸一名基督教公民6岁女儿的Schutzjudensohn(受保护犹太人的儿子)Heyum windm的刑事诉讼过程。在此过程中，它涉及了历史学界目前争论的三个主题:性暴力、反犹太人怨恨与性别之间的关系、边缘化的男性气质和交叉性。正如本研究所假定的那样，基督教的刑事司法提供了对犹太人和非犹太人之间接触和冲突的本质的洞察。这篇文章阐明了歧视在反犹太人编码的性和暴力犯罪领域中所扮演的角色，同时也探讨了男权性别秩序在此案中塑造了对性侵犯的厌女性建构。最后，揭示了刑事诉讼机制以及改革和监管利益的法律话语如何影响判决及其解释。这一案例证明了“犹太人是处女的亵渎者”这一主题的影响，即将犹太男子建构为基督教妇女的强奸犯的犹太s斯(犹太s斯)主题。

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期刊介绍： Jewish Social Studies recognizes the increasingly fluid methodological and disciplinary boundaries within the humanities and is particularly interested both in exploring different approaches to Jewish history and in critical inquiry into the concepts and theoretical stances that underpin its problematics. It publishes specific case studies, engages in theoretical discussion, and advances the understanding of Jewish life as well as the multifaceted narratives that constitute its historiography.