Catharism and Jews?

In at least reading the Wikipedia article, it seems like a successful Catharite country would be more anti-Jewish than almost any state in Pre-1900 Europe even beyond say Ferdinand and Isabella's Spain. Does anyone have any feeling on this?
 
May be overly simplifying it but Gnostic heresies and Manicheaism both seem to be more anti Jewish than normal Christinaity
 
I'm not too sure how you get to this conclusion, actually (especially with the Wikipedia article not mentioning anywhere Judaism)
Even admitting you could end up with a Cathar majority (which is quite unlikely to ever happen, Catharism being mostly a middle-class thing, both from low bourgeoisie and low nobility, that hardly managed to get more than 10%, approximatly, of some towns), what existed in regions touched by Catharism (basically, a triangle between Auch, Foix and Narbonne) was a fairly mixed religious life, with Narbonne, Lunel and Posquières (among others) being vibrant centers of medieval Judaism.

An important reason why Judaism get associated with heresy in the Fourth Council of Lateran, was that cathar churches were generally found more or less in similar regions than Jewish (and especially Kaballah) centers (Languedoc, Touraine, Flanders, Champagne, etc.)

Eventually, as what played in Languedoc was more social solidarity than real support of heresy; what would exist in middle term in the eventuality (again, borderline ASB) of a Cathar majority would be the same.

I'd point as well that the heavily decentralized network of Cathar churches (and quite technical bishopries) wouldn't be good immediate equivalent to the catholic churches structures, which we know to have an anti-judaic stance (if nowhere close to pogromic as in XIXth century or even XVIth Spain; but that's partially due to the fact Spanish Inquisition was an institution ruled by the monarchs in fact)

Not that heterodox communities and Jewish communities saw themselves with benevolence : if something Langedocian Jews seems to have been especially wary of Cathars (moderate and extremists) up to Meir ben Simon of Narbone agreeing that depriving an orthodox son of his heretic father's inheritance was fair.
Generally it was because Cathars were seen as sort of Christian Kaballists (which, have I to precise?, they weren't), and it may have ended with Jewish autodafes of Cathar texts along Kabbalist texts in the early XIIIth century.

I don't really remember, tough, a Cathar text, or an alleged text, on Judaism let alone about an inherent hostility : any identification of Catharism with IInd century Gnosticism or Manicheism is an extreme exageration on this regard. Cathar teachings were much more of a mix with Italo-Byzantine dualism, Latin religious revival, and some local practices. I doubt it was really that interested on anti-judaism (or pro-judaism for that matter), and it would probably end up with inner dissenssions.

Now, I said that social solidarities could play in favour of the protection of Lengadocian Jews (they were unharmed during the Crusade, for exemple) : in the case of a Cathar majority (did I already said how unlikely it would be?) the integration of Lengadocian Jews into local feudal/communal realities (let's remember that a Jew, Abba Mari ben Isaac, was Raimon IV(VI)'s provost) may turn themselves as targets less as Jews unically, than non-Christians too well integrated with "wrong" leaders (a bit what papacy accused the same "wrong" leaders interestingly).
But, at least for middle term, there is no way in hell that we can say that it would be "more anti-Jewish than almost any state in pre-1900". That's just not even discarding the religious/social reality of southern France in the XIIIth, but also pretty much the difference between lukwarsm anti-judaism (not that it make it right, of course) and nationalist anti-semitism of the XIXth. That's ridiculous.

Good secondary sources would be "Les Juifs du Languedoc avant 1306", by Joseph Shatzmiller; "Albigensian Heresy as Seen by the Jews" by Joseph Shatzmiller and "Cathar texts and commentaries of Abraham Abulafia on the Book of Creation" by Shulamit Shahar.
 
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