От антииудаизма к иудаизантизму в православной культуре Востока Европы в конце XV – XVI вв.

С. 207–265.

Dmitriev M.

This article calls in question some stereotypes concerning alleged Muscovite «notorious» judeophobia. It deals with evidence on Muscovite “Judaizers” of the last quarter of the XVth century, and “Judaizers”’ traces in Muscovy under Ivan the Terrible (Feodosiy Kosoy and his followers), and in Ruthenia (Podol’e) in the same epoch (recently found “Beseda na gusov”). Russian “Judaizers” were, in fact, interested in Judaism, and most of them were members of clergy. So called “literature of Judaizers” contains borrowings from Judaic tradition.  The “Laodicean Episle”, compiled by d’iak Fiodor Kuritsyn in the end of the XVth century, is one of rather unquestionable manifestation of Jewish influences among Muscovite élites. The explanation of this phenomenon lies, most probably, in the confessionally peculiar features of the traditional Byzantine-Orthodox attitudes to Jews and Judaism. 

Keywords: антисемитизм, Московская Русь, Muscovy, anti-Judaic polemics, antisemitism, Judaizers, антииудейская полемика, "ересь жидовствующих"

Publication based on the results of: Eastern and Western Europe in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: historical and cultural commonalities, regional peculiarities and the dynamics of interaction (2014)

In book

Polystoria: Цари, святые, мифотворцы в средневековой Европе

М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2016.