Their houses also should be razed and destroyed. For they pursue in them the same aims as in their synagogues. Instead they might be lodged under a roof or in a barn, like the Gypsies.
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This passage calls for destroying Jewish homes because, the author claims, Jews use them for the same religious purposes as synagogues. It suggests forcing them into barns or shelters like those used by the Romani people, treating them as outcasts without permanent housing. It is a demand to strip a religious minority of property, dignity, and any settled place in society.
Luther wrote this in his 1543 treatise On the Jews and Their Lies, late in life after Jews refused to convert to his reformed Christianity. Once relatively tolerant, he turned bitterly hostile, urging princes to burn synagogues, seize Jewish books, and expel communities. The passage reveals the harsh, polemical side of the reformer whose theology reshaped Christianity but whose anti-Jewish writings were later cited by German antisemites, including the Nazis.
In 1543 Germany, Jews lived under constant precarity, often expelled from cities and confined to specific trades. The Reformation had shattered Christian unity, and Luther expected Jews to embrace his purified gospel. When they did not, frustration fused with medieval blood-libel traditions and economic resentment. Princes routinely debated expulsion; some acted on Luther's recommendations within years, foreshadowing centuries of state-sanctioned persecution across Central Europe.
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