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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7860194, member: 110350&quot;]See <a href="https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/anti-semitic-stereotypes-of-the-jewish-body/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/anti-semitic-stereotypes-of-the-jewish-body/" rel="nofollow">https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/anti-semitic-stereotypes-of-the-jewish-body/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A widespread medieval negative image of the Jew was based upon a misinterpretation of the Hebrew Bible. Moses was often depicted with two horns on his head as a result of the Latin mis-rendering of the verb “sent forth beams” (karan) in Exodus 34:35 as “grew horns.” (A horn is a keren.) This image, which was widely portrayed in art of the Middle Ages by artists including Michelangelo and Donatello in Italy, led to the widespread notion that all Jews had devilish horns.</p><p><br /></p><p>**</p><p><br /></p><p>I have more than one Jewish friend who, in traveling around the USA back in the 1970s and 1980s, encountered people in the rural South and Midwest who said they had never met a Jew before and (apparently seriously) asked where their horns were. My friends definitely did not get the impression that these people were trying to be funny, or to give them a hard time.</p><p><br /></p><p>At least the stereotype that Jews have hooves instead of feet -- and, therefore, shouldn&#039;t be allowed in the military because they wouldn&#039;t be able to march long distances -- seems to have died out several hundred years ago. Same with the so-called Foetor Judaicus, the special unpleasant odor that Jews were believed to have.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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