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The study deals with anti-Semitism in the work of three Roman poets: Horace, Martial and Juvenal. The aim of the study was to examine whether their works are anti-Semitic. If so, is there any connection to the Roman Empire’s relations with the Jews? Initially, under the rulers Caesar and Augustus, the relationship with the Jews was positive, and yet Horace attacks the Jews in his satires. Martial and Juvenal wrote after the First Jewish War, when Judeo-Roman relations cooled significantly. Martial denigrates the Jews by claiming that they have strong sexual impulses, and Juvenal blamed them for desecrating Rome. All three poets blamed the Jews for corrupting the Romans with their religious customs. That is anti-Judaism. Anti-Judaism does not depend on relationships with Jews. When the Jews were loyal, relations with Rome were good, if not, the Jews were punished. Judaism was tolerated in the Roman Empire except for Hadrian after the Second Jewish War. Anti-Judaism was a private matter for intellectuals.
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This presentation concerns the problem of the social withdrawal of the Jews in other communities both now and in the past. The life in the diaspora brought about a certain amount of tension conditioned by economic, political, social, moral, national or religious factors. There emerged various attitudes of non-Jews towards the Jews customarily called anti-Semitism, anti-Judaism, anti-Jewishness as well as anti-Zionism. All the aforementioned phenomena have common grounds: such was the price of constructing, protecting, preserving and developing one’s identity in a strange community. There are, however, essential differences between these phenomena and this is usually forgotten. Consequently, any attempt at subsuming all of them under the term ‘anti-Semitism’ is unfounded and unjustifiable. The presentation aims first and foremost at characterising the above phenomena and particularly the differences and similarities between them as this affects their proper understanding and evaluation.  
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