Léon Poliakov (1910-97) has written extensively on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. [43] The earliest recorded instance of an accusation of deicide against the Jewish people as a whole – that they were collectively responsible for the death of Jesus – occurs in a sermon of 167 CE attributed to Melito of Sardis entitled Peri Pascha, On the Passover. The term was coined in 1879 to designate contemporary anti-Jewish campaigns in central Europe. [46] According to this interpretation, both the Jews present at Jesus' death and the Jewish people collectively and for all time had committed the sin of deicide, or God-killing.[47]. In Germany, following World War I, Nazism arose as a political movement incorporating racially antisemitic ideas, expressed by Adolf Hitler in his book Mein Kampf (German: My Struggle). The number of Jews permitted to reside in different places was limited; they were concentrated in ghettos and were not allowed to own land; they were subject to discriminatory taxes on entering cities or districts other than their own and were forced to swear special Jewish Oaths, and they suffered a variety of other measures. Paley, Susan and Koesters, Adrian Gibbons, eds. Before the Crusades, Jews had practically a monopoly on the trade in Eastern products, but the closer connection between Europe and the East brought about by the Crusades raised up a class of Christian merchant traders, and from this time onwards, restrictions on the sale of goods by Jews became frequent. There were particular outbursts of riotous persecution in the Rhineland massacres of 1096 accompanying the lead-up to the First Crusade, many involving the crusaders as they travelled to the East. It pioneered the blood libel and the church was a leader in instituting cruel legislation and discriminatory conduct toward Jews. The story of William of Norwich (d. 1144) is often cited as the first known accusation of ritual murder against Jews. "[162] In 1891, the leading Muslims in Jerusalem asked the Ottoman authorities in Constantinople to prohibit the entry of Jews arriving from Russia. Anti-Semitism flourished despite the intellectual liberation of the Enlightenment period. [77][78] The chronicle of Ibn al-Qalanisi states that the building was set on fire whilst the Jews were still inside. American antisemitism did not emerge in a vacuum, but within an imposed racial hegemony that enslaved, subjugated and discriminated against Black Americans and other minorities. Pogroms in Eastern Europe, particularly Russia, prompted waves of Jewish immigrants after 1881. [140][139] Gougenot des Mousseaux's Le Juif, le judaïsme et la judaïsation des peuples chrétiens (1869) has been called a "Bible of modern antisemitism" and was translated into German by Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg. ", Ages Arnold. [58], From the 9th century onwards, the medieval Islamic world imposed dhimmi status on both Christian and Jewish minorities. Those labeled as New Christians were under the surveillance of the Portuguese Inquisition from 1536 until 1821. [citation needed] The Latin word deicida (slayer of god), from which the word deicide is derived, was used in the 4th century by Peter Chrystologus in his sermon number 172. Covering the story of prejudice against Jews from the time of Christ through the rise of Nazi Germany, The History of Anti-Semitism presents in elegant and thoughtful language a balanced, careful assessment of this egregious human failing that is nearly ubiquitous in the history of Europe. Wolfgang Benz in Dimension des Volksmords: Die Zahl der Jüdischen Opfer des Nationalsozialismus (Munich: Deutscher Taschebuch Verlag, 1991). His many books include Harvest of Hate: The Nazi Program for the Destruction of Jews in Europe and Aryan Myth: A History of Racist and Nationalist Ideas in Europe. When king Richard left to join the Third Crusade in 1190, anti-Jewish riots broke out again in York and throughout England. while they encircled the burning building. [144] In 1819, German Jews were attacked in the Hep-Hep riots. [162] In 1839, in the eastern Persian city of Meshed, a mob burst into the Jewish Quarter, burned the synagogue and destroyed the Torah scrolls, and it was only by forced conversion that a massacre was averted. The history of antisemitism, defined as hostile actions or discrimination against Jews as a religious or ethnic group, goes back many centuries, with antisemitism being called "the longest hatred". [123], In accordance with the anti-Jewish precepts of the Russian Orthodox Church,[124] Russia's discriminatory policies towards Jews intensified when the partition of Poland in the 18th century resulted, for the first time in Russian history, in the possession of land with a large population of Jews. Some badges (such as those worn by guild members) were prestigious, while others were worn by ostracised outcasts such as lepers, reformed heretics and prostitutes. Not being subject to this restriction, insofar as loans to non-Jews were concerned, Jews made this business their own, despite possible criticism of usury in the Torah and later sections of the Hebrew Bible. [82] The Karaite Jewish community of Ashkelon (Ascalon) reached out to their coreligionists in Alexandria to first pay for the holy books and then rescued pockets of Jews over several months. In the early 4th century, intermarriage between unconverted Jews and Christians was prohibited under the provisions of the Synod of Elvira. The term "antisemitism" was coined by the German agitator and publicist, Wilhelm Marr in 1879. (2007). Retrieved September 2, 2007, from, Goitein, S.D. the State of Israel, established in 1948, demonstrated its military strength and began drawing criticism for its occupation of lands with Arab populations, Both economically and socially, the Crusades were disastrous for European Jews. [151] The earlier wave of Jewish immigration from Germany, the latter (post 1880) came from "the Pale" – the region of Eastern Poland, Russia and the Ukraine where Jews had suffered under the Czars. It is too bad because a few Jews of the right type are, I believe, an asset to any country."[190]. [2] In practice, it is difficult to differentiate antisemitism from the general ill-treatment of nations by other nations before the Roman period, but since the adoption of Christianity in Europe, antisemitism has undoubtedly been present. A Brief History of Anti-Fascism ... or “antifa” for short, they fought Nazi anti-Semitism and homophobia under the flags with the red-and-black logo that antifa groups wave today. Pleas to retain them by diplomats at the Congress of Vienna peace conference (1814–5) were unsuccessful. [199] Jews in the Middle East were also affected by the Holocaust. He stated that Jews were "deceitful", "very repugnant", and "hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ". Especially virulent in this regard was Julius Streicher's publication Der Stürmer, which published the alleged sexual misdemeanors of Jews for popular consumption. It has been argued that European antisemitism has its roots in Roman policy. At Madison Square Garden in 1939, some 20,000 people listened to the Bund leader Fritz Julius Kuhn as he criticized President Franklin Delano Roosevelt by repeatedly referring to him as "Frank D. Rosenfeld" and calling his New Deal the "Jew Deal". In many countries, enhanced civil rights were gradually extended to the Jews, though often only in a partial form and on condition that the Jews abandon many aspects of their previous identity in favour of integration and assimilation with the dominant society. 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[99] Under this dispensation, some 30,000 were condemned to death and executed by being burnt alive. "Contemporary Letters on the Capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders." Anti-Semitism, hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious or racial group. In post-Napoleonic England, when there was a notable absence of Jews, Britain removed bans on "usury and moneylending,"[216] and Rubenstein attests that London and Liverpool became economic trading hubs which bolstered England's status as an economic powerhouse. "Tainted Greatness: The Case of Voltaire's Anti-Semitism: The Testimony of the Correspondence. Despite this, traditional discrimination and hostility to Jews on religious grounds persisted and was supplemented by racial antisemitism, encouraged by the work of racial theorists such as the royalist Joseph Arthur de Gobineau and particularly his Essay on the Inequality of the Human Race of 1853–55. Even those who were anti-Semitic were hesitant, if not embarrassed, to express it. There were many local expulsions from cities by local rulers and city councils. Dan Cohn-Sherbok (2006) The Paradox of Anti-Semitism. "[119] Thirty of the 118 articles in Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique concerned Jews and described them in consistently negative ways. However, religious plurality was already a cultural tradition and a legal obligation in New Amsterdam and in the Netherlands, and his superiors at the Dutch West India Company in Amsterdam overruled him. [169] The rise to prominence of the Jewish socialist Léon Blum, who became prime minister of the Popular Front Government in 1936, further polarised opinion within France. [61][62][63] The Almohads, who by 1147 had taken control of the Almoravids' Maghribi and Andalusian territories,[64] took a less tolerant view still and treated the dhimmis harshly. [11] Bohak has argued, however, that early animosity against the Jews cannot be regarded as being anti-Judaic or antisemitic unless it arose from attitudes that were held against the Jews alone, and that many Greeks showed animosity toward any group they regarded as barbarians. Albert Lee. [196] Some on the left adopted the rhetoric, which it has been argued, was made possible by their lack of knowledge of the history of fascism and its use of "scapegoating, reductionist and simplistic solutions, demagoguery, and a conspiracy theory of history. It is also significant that because Jews were not in the spotlight financially, it took a lot of the anger away from them, and as such, antisemitism was somewhat muted in England. The People's Crusade that accompanied the First Crusade attacked Jewish communities in Germany, France, and England, and killed many Jews. [200] In 1945, hundreds of Jews were injured during violent demonstrations in Egypt and Jewish property was vandalized and looted. 0000003125 00000 n "[97], In the Catholic kingdoms of late medieval and early modern Spain, oppressive policies and attitudes led many Jews to embrace Christianity. The Dreyfus affair saw a Jewish military officer named Captain Alfred Dreyfus falsely accused of treason in 1895 by his army superiors and sent to Devil's Island after being convicted. [165] Violence against the Jews in the Kishinev pogrom in 1903 was continued after the 1905 revolution by the activities of the Black Hundreds. Even after the First Jewish–Roman War, the Roman authorities refused to rescind Jewish privileges in some cities. [195] This was mainly in the area of civil liberties, opposition to United States military intervention overseas and opposition to U.S. support for Israel. [154] Policy towards Jews was liberalised somewhat under Tsar Alexander II,[155] but antisemitic attitudes and long-standing repressive policies against Jews were intensified after Alexander II was assassinated on 13 March 1881, culminating in widespread anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire which lasted for three years. [193][194] Poland's later "March events" of 1967-1968 was a state anti-Jewish (officially anti-Zionist) political campaign involving the suppression of the dissident movement and a power struggle within the Polish communist party against the background of the Six-Day War and the Soviet Union's and the Eastern Bloc's new radically anti-Israeli policy in support of socialist Arab countries. After Hitler came to power in 1933, the Nazi regime sought the systematic exclusion of Jews from national life. In the 12th century, there were Christians who believed that some, or possibly all, of the Jews possessed magical powers and had gained these powers from making a pact with the devil. Where before 1900, American Jews never amounted to even 1 percent of America's total population, by 1930 Jews formed about 3½ percent of America's total population. [5] As examples of pagan writers who spoke positively of Jews, Feldman cites Aristotle, Theophrastus, Clearchus of Soli and Megasthenes. ", Meyer, Paul H. "The Attitude of the Enlightenment Toward the Jew. [89] Jews were also sometimes falsely accused of desecrating consecrated hosts in a reenactment of the Crucifixion; this crime was known as host desecration and it carried the death penalty. Modern Anti-Semitism. Some sources state that the conviction (and later the lynching) of Leo Frank, which turned a spotlight on antisemitism in the United States, also led to the formation of the Anti-Defamation League in October 1913. [191] During race riot in Detroit in 1943, Jewish businesses were targeted for looting and burning. In the twelfth century, Catholic medieval Britain was a persecutory society, particularly when it came to Jews. His disappearance was blamed on the leaders of the city's Jewish community, based on confessions extracted under torture, in a case that fueled the rampant antisemitism of the time. 0000008236 00000 n Bennett, Gillian (2005), "Towards a revaluation of the legend of 'Saint' William of Norwich and its place in the blood libel legend". Agatharchides of Cnidus wrote about the "ridiculous practices" of the Jews and of the "absurdity of their Law", and how Ptolemy Lagus was able to invade Jerusalem in 320 BC because its inhabitants were observing the Sabbath. [149], The defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) was blamed by some on the Jews. The most notable such expulsions were from Paris by Philip Augustus in 1182, from the whole of France by Louis IX in 1254, by Philip IV in 1306, by Charles IV in 1322 and by Charles VI in 1394.[90]. Others were killed in their homes. "[196] The Crown Heights riots of 1991 were a violent expression of tensions within a very poor urban community, pitting African American residents against followers of Hassidic Judaism. Its dead body would be removed from the cross and concealed or disposed of, but in some instances rituals of black magic would be performed on it. The Historical Roots of Anti-Semitism Two millennia of European anti-Semitism can be traced to early Christian beliefs about Jewish culpability in the murder of Jesus. [22] However, some historians argue that Rome brutally suppressed revolts in all its conquered territories and point out that Tiberius expelled all foreign religions from Rome, not just the Jews. [147] In 1850, German composer Richard Wagner published Das Judenthum in der Musik ("Jewishness in Music") under a pseudonym in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik. However, the discrimination against Jews had continued, leading to a mass emigration once it was allowed in the 1970s, followed by another during and after the breakup of the Soviet Union, mostly to Israel. "[80] Following the siege, Jews captured from the Dome of the Rock, along with native Christians, were made to clean the city of the slain. Between 1882 and 1886 alone, French priests published twenty antisemitic books blaming France's ills on the Jews and urging the government to consign them back to the ghettos, expel them, or hang them from the gallows. During the early 1980s, isolationists on the far right made overtures to anti-war activists on the left in the United States to join forces against government policies in areas where they shared concerns. However, Abraham H. Foxman, the organization's National Director, disputes this claim, stating that American Jews simply needed to found an institution that would combat antisemitism. Between 1881 and 1920, approximately three million Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe migrated to America, many of them fleeing pogroms and the difficult economic conditions which were widespread in much of Eastern Europe during this time. 0000001618 00000 n In the essay, he explains that there are relatively low levels of antisemitism in the English-speaking world, particularly in Britain and the United States, because of the values associated with Protestantism, the rise of capitalism, and the establishment of constitutional governments that protect civil liberties. He helped establish the Centre de … Antisemitism in the Soviet Union reached a peak in 1948–1953 and culminated in the so-called Doctors' Plot that could have been a precursor to a general purge and a mass deportation of the Soviet Jews as nation. In addition to being low in the United States and Britain, antisemitism was also low in other English-speaking countries such as Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand. [174] Antisemitic propaganda by or on behalf of the Nazi Party began to pervade society. The child would be presented to the tribunal naked and tied and eventually be condemned to death. Already restricted to a limited number of occupations, Edward abolished their "privilege" to lend money, restricted their movements and activities and forced Jews to wear a yellow patch. [92] During the Second Barons' War in the 1260s, Simon de Montfort's followers ravaged the Jewries of London, Canterbury, Northampton, Winchester, Cambridge, Worcester and Lincoln in an effort to destroy the records of their debts to moneylenders. There was continuing hostility to Judaism from the late Roman period into medieval times. However, those expelled could only leave the country in ships specified by the King. While antisemitism tended to be low in English-speaking regions of Canada, it was higher in Quebec where the native language is French. Quebec has a "long history of blaring antisemitism, enunciated by French-speaking nationalists steeped in the most extreme forms of Catholic hostility towards Jews. In his 1843 essay On the Jewish Question, Karl Marx said the god of Judaism is money and accused the Jews of corrupting Christians. Eric L. Goldstein, The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity (Princeton University Press, 2006), 1 … 0000016814 00000 n It was coined in Germany (“ Antisemitismus ”) in the 1879 work Der Sieg des Judenthums über das … [36][37][38] Later, several conflicts arose between Jews of Arabia and Muhammad and his followers, the most notable of which was in Khaybar, in which many Jews were killed and their properties seized and distributed amongst the Muslims.[39]. The Jewish defenders of Jerusalem retreated to their synagogue to "prepare for death" once the Crusaders had breached the outer walls of the city during the siege of 1099. The coming of the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions in 19th-century Europe bred a new manifestation of antisemitism, based as much upon race as upon religion, which culminated in the Holocaust that occurred during World War II. [73], Restrictions upon Jewish occupations were imposed by Christian authorities. Following legislation supporting the equality of French Jews with other citizens during the French Revolution, similar laws promoting Jewish emancipation were enacted in the early 19th century in those parts of Europe over which France had influence. They were given a grace period of thirty years during which no inquiry into their faith would be allowed. [172][171], Antisemitism was particularly virulent in Vichy France during World War II. Two years later emperor Matthias executed Fettmilch and made the Jews return to the city under protection by imperial soldiers.[111]. These sentiments go back to the first President of the United States, George Washington, who asserted his belief in religious inclusion. The child would be tortured by Jews, and a crowd would gather at the place of execution (in some accounts the synagogue itself) and engage in a mock tribunal to try the child. [183] To implement this plan, the Jews from Poland, Germany, and various other countries would be transported to purpose-built extermination camps set up by Nazis in the occupied Poland and in Germany-annexed territories, where they were mostly killed in gas chambers immediately upon their arrival. [41] The Jewish Patriarchate was abolished and the scope of Jewish courts restricted. [163], One symbol of Jewish degradation was the phenomenon of stone-throwing at Jews by Muslim children. Between 1881 and the outbreak of the First World War, an estimated two and half million Jews left Russia – one of the largest mass migrations in recorded history. He asserts that "one of the great puzzles that has confronted the students of anti-semitism is the alleged shift from pro-Jewish statements found in the first pagan writers who mention the Jews ... to the vicious anti-Jewish statements thereafter, beginning with Manetho about 270 BCE". Statements exhibiting prejudice towards Jews and their religion can also be found in the works of a few pagan Greek and Roman writers,[16] but the earliest occurrence of antisemitism has been the subject of debate among scholars, largely because different writers use different definitions of antisemitism. And although Hadrian outlawed circumcision as a mutilation normally visited on people unable to consent, he later exempted the Jews. The Jerusalem Talmud relates that, following Bar Kokhba's revolt (132–136 CE), the Romans destroyed very many Jews, "killing until their horses were submerged in blood to their nostrils". Even moneylending and peddling were at times forbidden to them. [122] In 1768, thousands of Jews were killed by Cossack Haidamaks during the massacre of Uman in the Kingdom of Poland. The same themes appeared in the works of Chaeremon, Lysimachus, Poseidonius, Apollonius Molon, and in Apion and Tacitus. �CqbK�L $-����{��(�!o_���PC��hƚ��|��lC7��5��NGs�B��_b�f��.d�´]3�. Sometimes, Jews sought to evade the badges by paying what amounted to bribes in the form of temporary "exemptions" to kings, which were revoked and re-paid for whenever the king needed to raise funds. [148][157], Historian Martin Gilbert writes that it was in the 19th century that the position of Jews worsened in Muslim countries. The believers in these false accusations reasoned that the Jews, having crucified Jesus, continued to thirst for pure and innocent blood, at the expense of innocent Christian children. [68][69] At certain times in the Middle Ages, in Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, decrees ordering the destruction of synagogues were enacted. [145] Full Jewish emancipation was not granted in Germany until 1871, when the country was united under the Hohenzollern dynasty.[146]. [100] In 1492, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile issued an edict of expulsion of Jews from Spain, giving Jews four months to either convert to Christianity or leave the country. Meanwhile, the United States government did not allow the MS St. Louis to enter the United States in 1939 because it was full of Jewish refugees. 0000002172 00000 n For a period of time after the Nazi defeat in 1945, anti-Semitism lost favour in western Europe and the United States. Modern Anti-Semitism The term “anti-Semitism” was coined in 1873 by Wilhelm Marr, a German political agitator in his work, Victory of Judaism over Germanism. Jews were demonized as the driving force of both international Marxism and capitalism. Essentially, English-speaking nations experienced lower levels of antisemitism because their liberal and constitutional frameworks limited the organized, violent expression of antisemitism. 3 Antisemitism in History: The Early Modern Era, 1300–1800. The Crusades were a series of military campaigns sanctioned by the Papacy in Rome, which took place from the end of the 11th century until the 13th century. Christian literature began to display extreme hostility towards Jews, which occasionally resulted in attacks and the burning of synagogues. [131][139], In the 1840s, the popular counter-revolutionary Catholic journalist Louis Veuillot propagated Bonald's arguments against the Jewish "financial aristocracy" along with vicious attacks against the Talmud and the Jews as a "deicidal people" driven by hatred to "enslave" Christians. During 1948 there were further riots against Jews in Tripoli, Cairo, Oujda and Jerada. [70] 6,000 Jews were killed by a Muslim mob during the 1033 Fez massacre. [6] Alexandrian Jewry were the largest Jewish community in the world and the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, was produced there. In 1864, around 500 Jews were killed in Marrakech and Fez in Morocco. Judensau images began to appear in Germany. [210][211][212], In 2004, the United Kingdom set up an all-Parliamentary inquiry into antisemitism, which published its findings in 2006. 0000003632 00000 n 0000001096 00000 n [85] In 1236, Crusaders attacked the Jewish communities of Anjou and Poitou, killing 3,000 and baptizing 500. In the end, the child would be crowned with thorns and tied or nailed to a wooden cross. Prestwich, Michael (1997), Edward I, Yale University Press, "Bogdan Chmelnitzki leads Cossack uprising against Polish rule; 100,000 Jews are killed and hundreds of Jewish communities are destroyed. [29], In 627 CE, Jewish tribe Banu Qurayza of Medina violated a treaty with Muhammad by allying with the attacking tribes. [125] This land was designated as the Pale of Settlement from which Jews were forbidden to migrate into the interior of Russia. [178] Following the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, a systematic campaign of mass murder in that country was conducted against Soviet Jews (including former Polish Jews from Soviet-annexed territories) by Nazi death squads called the Einsatzgruppen, killing over one million Jews and marking a turn from persecution to extermination. It is said that Jews did not rank among the "economic elite of many British cities" in the 19th century. Burke’s anti-Semitism The embattled alderman gives us a chance to take out our magnifying glass and categorize calumny. This period was later extended until 1534. In 1229 his son Raymond VII underwent a similar ceremony. 0000002743 00000 n In further attempts to minimize antisemitism within government, the United States' Declaration of Independence embraced the liberal principles that were previously put forth in England and inspired the formation of a republic that had executive, judicial, and legislative powers and even a law that served to "forbid the establishment of any religion or any official religious test for office holding. Edited by Norman Roth, Routledge, The Counts of Toulouse and the Jews of the Languedoc, "This Day in Jewish History 1242: France Burns All Known Copies of the Talmud", "Jews, jurats and the Jewry Wall: a name in context", "Map of Jewish expulsions and resettlement areas in Europe". Portugal followed suit in December 1496. All Jews were banished from the country in 1290,[93] where it was possible that hundreds were killed or drowned while trying to leave the country. The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution ended official discrimination against the Jews but was followed, however, by massive anti-Jewish violence by the anti-Bolshevik White Army and the forces of the Ukrainian People's Republic in the Russian Civil War. H�\��j�0��~ The essay began as an attack on Jewish composers, particularly Wagner's contemporaries (and rivals) Felix Mendelssohn and Giacomo Meyerbeer, but expanded to accuse Jewish influences more widely of being a harmful and alien element in German culture. This hostility was reflected in the edicts both of church councils and state laws. Rubenstein attests that another reason as to why "most of these [Protestants] were predisposed to be sympathetic to the Jews" was because they often "view[ed] themselves, like the biblical Hebrews, as a chosen group that had entered into a direct covenant with God. 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