Anti-Semitism developed and changed throughout history, and had an influence on the Roman Catholic Church. Anti-Semitism began even before the Christian church. Pagan's hostility toward the Jews stemmed from their rejection of pagan idol worship. They also refused to worship the Emperor, which made people doubt their loyalty to the Empire. It was easy for the Christians to just blame things on Jewish people. This came from a misunderstanding the Jews traditions and different interpretations of the Gospels. In the book, Racial and Ethnic Groups, by Richard Schaefer, the Christians called the Jews "Christ-killers". The Gospels blame the Jews and seem to excuse the Romans. Pilate "washed his hands" and proclaimed he was "innocent of the blood" while the people (Jews) answered "His blood be on us and our children"(Mathew 27: 24-25). They thought all Jews took part and were responsible for the crucifixion of Christ, since it seemed in that passage, that all the Jews were taking responsibility. There was even a legend that Jews sacrificed Christian children at Passover. This may have started from a misinterpretation of the Bible record of Passover, when the first born of every household was killed. The Jewish children are spared. Many things like this made the Christians angry towards Jews over many years.
The Romans considerd the Christians to be a sect of Judaism. Because the Jews were rebellious the Emperors did not like them. This resulted in poor treatment of the Christians as well. The Jews were allowed to practice freely while Christianity was considered illegal. This resulted in the persecution of Christians. After the Romans rejected the Christians, the Christians turned around and did the same to the Jews. As it said in The Jesus connection, the Romans had a "Christian Problem", which was then changed into a "Jewish Problem" for the Christians. The Christians were harsh to the Jews, as the Romans were to them.
In the 1890's, antisemitism in Europe took the form of violent oppression in Eastern Europe. It was a political movement in western Europe, and eventually because of a deplorable economic situation, reached its peak of brutality in the form of Nazism. In Eastern Europe, Jews were seen as outcasts an...
The idea of antisemitism was not seculded to Nazi Germany and its the surrounding countries but also was very apparent in Canadian culture, during the 1930s. ... It is seen through the goals of the social credit, that indirectly they intensified the paranoia and fear that Jewish people were the reason of the depression and that their removal of power would be the solution to a broken economy. it can be said the Social credit precipitated antisemitism, legitimized it and helped spread it. ...
I think Shakespeare intended for Shylock to play the role of a stereotypical 16th century Jew who would be mocked and looked down upon through the eyes of antisemitism which was rampant in England during this time. ...
In Germany and in its 'sister' ethnic-German Austria there was strong antisemitism that since the 19th century developed to a strong political force that blamed Jews for all problems and trouble. ... He had two Jewish friends there, but Vienna was then an active center of strong antisemitism, and Hitler also read "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion", a totally falsified document that was written by the pre-WWI Russian royal secret police in a cynical attempt to divert public blame of Russia's trouble from the monarchy to the Jews. ... It was basically the policy of the ...
Roman Polanski, born Roman Liebling, was born August 18, 1933 in Paris. He was the son of Jewish-Polish parents, who returned to Poland in 1937, because of the antisemitism rising going on France. At the start of World War II Roman and his parents were sent to the concentration camp in Aus...
Of all the people within western society, women have been the most heavily scrutinised by society. By utilising societies tool; the media, society has been able to isolate and identify what is socially acceptable in western society and what is not. By "erasing" certain minority groups from the publi...
Henry Ford of Ford Motors also became convinced that Jews were responsible for WW1 and printed the book for seven years in his newspaper the Dearborn Independent, which gave credibility to the idea that the Jews had started the war as a means to gain profit, which in turn only added to the already blossoming idea of antisemitism in America. ...
Abstract In this paper I will attempt to show how Nazism came to power in the events before and during their time. I am going to try and prove that although many influences and events lead up to Nazi rule, the main theme is the desperation of the German people and ripe economic atmosphere. None of t...