Nicholas Donin
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Nicholas Donin (French: Nicolas Donin) of La Rochelle,[1] a Jewish convert to Christianity in early thirteenth-century Paris, is known for his role in the 1240 Disputation of Paris, which resulted in a decree for the public burning of all available manuscripts of the Talmud.[2] Latin sources referred to him as "Repellus," referring to his native La Rochelle.[3]
Excommunication
In 1225, Donin was excommunicated
Disputations
Authority of Pope Gregory IX
In 1238 Donin went to
The Pope was persuaded that the accusations were true and dispatched to the authorities of the Church transcripts of the charges formulated by Donin, accompanied by an order to seize all copies of the Talmud and deposit them with the Dominicans and Franciscans. If an examination corroborated the charges of Donin, the scrolls were to be burned, as they were an "insult to Christianity".
Authority of King Louis IX
This order was generally ignored, except in
See also
- Criticism of the Talmud
- Jacob Brafman
- Johannes Pfefferkorn
References
- ISBN 978-0-87441-302-1.
- ^ James Carroll Constantine's sword: the church and the Jews : a history
- JSTOR 1453186.
- ^ "DONIN, NICHOLAS, OF LA ROCHELLE - JewishEncyclopedia.com". www.jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
- JSTOR 1453186.
- ^ Reading Medieval Religious Disputation: The 1240 "Debate" Between Rabbi Yehiel of Paris and Friar Nicholas Donin, Eisenberg, Saadya, R.
Bibliography
- Solomon ibn Verga, Shevet Yehudah, ed. Wiener, p. 114;
- A. Lewin, in Monatsschrift, 1869, pp. 9 et seq.:
- Isidore Loeb, in Rev. Et. Juives, i. 247 et seq.;
- Johann Christoph Wagenseil, Tela Ignea Satanæ;
- Heinrich Graetz, Geschichte vii. 94 et seq.
- Hyam Maccoby, Judaism on Trial (1981, Littman Library of Jewish Civilisation)
Kaufmann Kohler; Isaac Broydé (1901–1906). "Donin, Nicholas, Of La Rochelle". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.- John Friedman, Jean Connell Hoff, Robert Chazen, The Trial of the Talmud: Paris, 1240 ,(2012 PIMS)
Further reading
- Alexander Kisch: Pope Gregory the Ninth Article indictment against the Talmud and its defense by Rabbi Jachiel and Rabbi Joseph ben Judah ben David from Saint Louis in Paris . Leipzig in 1874.
- Isidore Loeb: La controverse sur le Talmud sous saint Louis, Paris: Baer, 1881.
- Judah M. Rosenthal: The Talmud on Trial: The disputation at Paris in the Year 1240 . In: The Jewish Quarterly Review, 47/1 (1956), pp. 58–76, 47/1 (1956), pp. 145–169.
- Bernhard Garland: Jewish and Christian converts in the Judeo-Christian religious discussion of the Middle Ages . In: Miscellanea Medievalia 4 (1966), pp. 264–282.
- Jeremy Cohen, Friars and the Jews: Evolution of Mediaeval Anti-Judaism . Ithaca, 1982, ISBN 978-0801414060.
- Kurt Schubert : Apostasy from identity crisis - Nicholas Donin . In: Cairo. Journal of Jewish Studies and Religious Studies, 30/31 (1988/89), pp. 1–10.
- Israel Jacob Yuval : Two nations in your womb. Mutual Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages . Göttingen 2007. ISBN 978-3-525-56993-1.
- Judah M. Rosenthal: Donin, Nicholas in Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd Edition, Volume 5, Detroit, New York etc. 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865933-6, p 750.
External links
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070427200333/http://www.canalsocial.net/GER/ficha_GER.asp?id=11677&cat=religionnocristiana
- http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5277-donin-nicholas-of-la-rochelle
- http://www.michtavim.com/RMRYehielParis.pdf[permanent dead link]
- https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/60741/seisenbe_1.pdf?sequence=1
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