>Esther,
>
> Is this related to the symbolism invoked in the story Ephraim of Bonn
>tells of the young Jewish woman exhumed in a Crusade pogram and hanged with a
>rat tied around her neck? I've wondered for a while what that meant.
>
> Susan Einbinder
Susan - Oops - here my ignorance is discovered. It sounds like the same
theme of Jewish animalization. There's a whole iconography, with monkeys,
owls, etc. equated with Jews, but I had never encountered rats!
Esther Cohen, Jerusalem
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