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Η κατάλυση του πτολεμαϊκού βασιλείου της Αιγύπτου έσπειρε την διχόνοια μεταξύ των πολιτών στην Αλεξάνδρεια. Οι Ρωμαίοι εφαρμόζοντας με επιδεξιότητα την τακτική του διαίρει και βασίλευε στέρησαν από την ισχυρή κοινότητα των Ελλήνων τα πολύ σημαντικά προνομία που απολάμβανε και ταυτόχρονα αναβάθμισαν την ιουδαϊκή κοινότητα της πόλης παραχωρώντας της σημαντικά προνόμια. Έτσι έσπειραν το μίσος και την εχθρότητα μεταξύ των δυο κοινοτήτων.[1]

Επί Οκταβιανού Αυγούστου και Τιβέριου που η κεντρική εξουσία ήταν ισχυρή, η εχθρότητα αυτή δεν μπορούσε να εκδηλωθεί στην πράξη . Όταν η ρωμαϊκή εξουσία εξασθένησε (επί Καλιγούλα) η εχθρότητα αυτή φανερώθηκε και οδήγησε σε μια βίαιη διένεξη που έμελλε να διαρκέσει για δεκαετίες.[1]

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In the first century C.E., Alexandria was one of the most diverse, multicultural cities of the Roman Empire. Its population included not only Romans and Egyptians, but also a significant Jewish community, as well as Greek inhabitants, who traced their ancestry to the Macedonian soldiers who had travelled to the region with Alexander the Great.

However, the city’s status as a cultural hub was not without its problems. In 38 CE large-scale riots broke out between Greek and Jewish Alexandrians, and while the exact causes of these disturbances remain the subject of extensive debate to this day,[2] it is nonetheless possible to trace the course of events by studying the writings of the contemporary author Philo of Alexandria, who was a member of the Jewish community and experienced the riots in person.[3] From Philo’s writings, we get the impression that the riots were the result of deeply rooted dissatisfaction, which had been building up for years before finally erupting into the open during the early years of Caligula’s reign.

Throughout Philo’s account of the riots, we get the distinct impression that the general discontent was caused by a complex mixture of religious and political issues. This became especially evident when Agrippa I, the Jewish king of Judea and a staunch Roman ally, visited the city. Since Alexandria had lost both its status as a royal residence and its senate after the Roman conquest, Greek Alexandrians seem to have found the fact that the Jewish community continued to have a monarch of their own completely intolerable. They mocked the visiting king at every turn, and publically insulted him by crowning a mentally disabled man and addressing him with the Syrian word for king. Matters soon escalated, and after the synagogues of the city had been desecrated or destroyed, Jewish inhabitants were rounded up into a single district of the city and exposed to violence. Meanwhile, the Roman prefect Flaccus chose the side of the Greek rioters, and formally declared the Jews aliens and foreigners.

This declaration by the Roman governor provides an additional clue for the cause of the Greeks’ animosity. It was a clear sign that the Greek inhabitants of Alexandria saw the Jewish community as a fundamentally alien element within their city, and wished to see this view recognized. In reality, however, matters were not at all so clear-cut. Not only did the Jewish community have a formally recognized governing body, or politeuma, with all connected privileges, while the Greeks had been deprived of their senate, but it was also fundamentally unclear who could lay claim to the coveted status of Alexandrian citizen. Being a citizen meant exemption from Roman taxation, but, more importantly, it also meant status and political influence, and it is likely that some, though certainly not all, Alexandrian Jews sought to become members of this elite community. A number even claimed that they had an ancient right to citizenship, going back to the foundation of the city. For members of the Greek elite, this simply could not stand: to have Alexandrian citizenship meant to be a ‘true’ Alexandrian, and that, they thought, the Jews were not. As the anti-Jewish polemicist Apion argued: how could they be Alexandrians if they did not worship the Alexandrian gods?

In many ways, the Alexandrian riots were a perfect storm of animosity and jealousy. While the Jewish community attempted to establish itself as a part of Alexandrian society, Greek Alexandrians attempted to maintain the rights they thought were threatened by ‘intruders’ who did not belong, but were given special privileges nonetheless. Matters were only tentatively resolved when emperor Claudius intervened in 41 CE and re-established the boundaries between the feuding factions. However, this would not be the end for many other Jewish communities throughout the Roman Empire: similar questions of cultural identity would continue to play a part in a significant number of cities, showing just how deep, and how destructive, these issues can be. Despite the fact that many modern-day politicians are fond of referencing classical antiquity as a crucial part of ‘our’ heritage and identity, this seems to be a lesson many of them have yet to learn.

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Since, therefore, the attempt which was being made to violate the law appeared to him to be prospering, while he was destroying the synagogues, and not leaving even their name, he proceeded onwards to another exploit, namely, the utter destruction of our constitution, that when all those things to which alone our life was anchored were cut away, namely, our national customs and our lawful political rights and social privileges, we might be exposed to the very extremity of calamity, without having any stay left to which we could cling for safety, 54 for a few days afterwards he issued a notice in which he called us all foreigners and aliens, without giving us an opportunity of being heard in our own defence, but condemning us without a trial; and what command can be more full of tyranny than this?

He himself being everything — accuser, enemy, witness, judge, and executioner, added then to the two former appellations a third also, allowing any one who was inclined to proceed to exterminate the Jews as prisoners of war. 55 So when the people had received this license, what did they do? There are five districts in the city, named after the first five letters of the written alphabet, of these two are called the quarters of the Jews, because the chief portion of the Jews lives in them. There are also a few scattered Jews, but only a very few, living in some of the other districts. What then did they do? They drove the Jews entirely out of four quarters, and crammed them all into a very small portion of one; 56 and by reason of their numbers they were dispersed over the sea-shore, and desert places, and among the tombs, being deprived of all their property; while the populace, overrunning their desolate houses, turned to plunder, and divided the booty among themselves p73 as if they had obtained it in war. And as no one hindered them, they broke open even the workshops of the Jews, which were all shut up because of their mourning for Drusilla,1 and carried off all that they found there, and bore it openly through the middle of the market-place as if they had only been making use of their own property.

57 And the cessation of business to which they were compelled to submit was even a worse evil than the plunder to which they were exposed, as the consequence was that those who had lent money lost what they had lent, and as no one was permitted, neither farmer, nor captain of a ship, nor merchant, nor artisan, to employ himself in his usual manner, so that poverty was brought on them from two sides at once, both from rapine, as when license was thus given to plunder them they were stripped of everything in one day, and also from the circumstance of their no longer being able to earn money by their customary occupations.

Σενέκας έγραψε: 04 Ιούλ 2020, 04:31 as well as Greek inhabitants, who traced their ancestry to the Macedonian soldiers who had travelled to the region with Alexander the Great.

Antares έγραψε: 04 Ιούλ 2020, 11:21 Δεν μας λες και για την εξέγερση που έγινε στα χρόνια του Τραιανού, όπως επίσης και για τους λόγους που τους πετούσαν έξω από ευρωπαικές χώρες στα μεταγενέστερα χρόνια, για τους λόγους που ζούσαν σε γκέτο, για τους λόγους που δεν έφτιαχναν ποτέ δικό τους κράτος αλλά ήθελαν να ανεβαίνουν στην ελίτ άλλων κρατών με παράνομους και απαράδεκτους τρόπους;

Σενέκας έγραψε: 04 Ιούλ 2020, 11:23

Antares έγραψε: 04 Ιούλ 2020, 11:21 Δεν μας λες και για την εξέγερση που έγινε στα χρόνια του Τραιανού, όπως επίσης και για τους λόγους που τους πετούσαν έξω από ευρωπαικές χώρες στα μεταγενέστερα χρόνια, για τους λόγους που ζούσαν σε γκέτο, για τους λόγους που δεν έφτιαχναν ποτέ δικό τους κράτος αλλά ήθελαν να ανεβαίνουν στην ελίτ άλλων κρατών με παράνομους και απαράδεκτους τρόπους;

αυτά είναι όλα πιο μετα απο το πογκρόμ στην Αλεξάνδρεια

Antares έγραψε: 04 Ιούλ 2020, 11:30

Σενέκας έγραψε: 04 Ιούλ 2020, 11:23

Antares έγραψε: 04 Ιούλ 2020, 11:21 Δεν μας λες και για την εξέγερση που έγινε στα χρόνια του Τραιανού, όπως επίσης και για τους λόγους που τους πετούσαν έξω από ευρωπαικές χώρες στα μεταγενέστερα χρόνια, για τους λόγους που ζούσαν σε γκέτο, για τους λόγους που δεν έφτιαχναν ποτέ δικό τους κράτος αλλά ήθελαν να ανεβαίνουν στην ελίτ άλλων κρατών με παράνομους και απαράδεκτους τρόπους;

αυτά είναι όλα πιο μετα απο το πογκρόμ στην Αλεξάνδρεια

Για να γίνονται συνέχεια πογκρόμ (αληθινά ή κατασκευασμένα) επί αιώνες, κάτι δεν πάει καλά με τον λαό όχι με τους λαούς στις χώρες των οποίων εγκαθίσταται. Στο κάτω κάτω ας έφτιαχνε δική του χώρα, υπάρχουν μέρη στην Γη και είχαν γίνει προσφορές μέσα στους αιώνες. Όποιος θέλει να κάνει πατρίδα του μια άλλη χώρα πρέπει να σέβεται τους νόμους της. Τους καταλαβαίνω πολύ καλά τους Έλληνες αυτής της εποχής.

Yochanan έγραψε: 04 Ιούλ 2020, 11:35 διαφωνω οτι αυτο ηταν αντισημιτισμος. αντισημιτισμος ειναι κατι συγκεκριμενο με θρησκευτικα κινητρα και βασιζεται στην εχθροτητα προς τους εβραιους λογω της θρησκειας τους απο χριστιανους κυριως και δευτερευοντως και μουσουλμανους

Antares έγραψε: 04 Ιούλ 2020, 11:30 Για να γίνονται συνέχεια πογκρόμ (αληθινά ή κατασκευασμένα) επί αιώνες, κάτι δεν πάει καλά με τον λαό όχι με τους λαούς στις χώρες των οποίων εγκαθίσταται. Στο κάτω κάτω ας έφτιαχνε δική του χώρα, υπάρχουν μέρη στην Γη και είχαν γίνει προσφορές μέσα στους αιώνες. Όποιος θέλει να κάνει πατρίδα του μια άλλη χώρα πρέπει να σέβεται τους νόμους της. Τους καταλαβαίνω πολύ καλά τους Έλληνες αυτής της εποχής.

Σενέκας έγραψε: 04 Ιούλ 2020, 11:37
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Σενέκας έγραψε: 04 Ιούλ 2020, 11:41

Yochanan έγραψε: 04 Ιούλ 2020, 11:35 διαφωνω οτι αυτο ηταν αντισημιτισμος. αντισημιτισμος ειναι κατι συγκεκριμενο με θρησκευτικα κινητρα και βασιζεται στην εχθροτητα προς τους εβραιους λογω της θρησκειας τους απο χριστιανους κυριως και δευτερευοντως και μουσουλμανους

Μα είχε ξεκάθαρα πολιτισμικά(/θρησκευτικά) χαρακτηριστικά. Σου λέει ότι το πρώτο πράγμα που κάνανε, ήταν να πάνε και να γεμίσουν τις συναγωγές τους με αγάλματα θεών. Προφανώς τους ενοχλούσε ο ανεικονικός μονοθεϊσμός και με την πρώτη ευκαιρία μόλυναν τους τόπους λατρείας τους. Τι διαφορά έχει απ'αυτούς που πετάνε σήμερα γουρουνοκεφαλές μπροστά τζαμιά πχ;