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History of Anti-Semitism. Starting from the 1 st century AD. 1 st -3 rd century AD. Anti-Semitism can be traced to the time of Christ. Many Christians at the time held them responsible for crucifying Christ. 4 th Century AD. Constantine the Great made Christianity the state religion.
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History of Anti-Semitism Starting from the 1st century AD
1st-3rd century AD • Anti-Semitism can be traced to the time of Christ. • Many Christians at the time held them responsible for crucifying Christ.
4th Century AD • Constantine the Great made Christianity the state religion. • Jews were ordered to convert. • If they did not, they were ostracized or cast out and denied citizenship.
Middle ages500 – 1400 AD • During this period both the Church and State took legislative steps to ensure the misery of the Jews. • Laws were put in place that forbade Jews to farm land and engage in the crafts. • The Crusades that began in 1096 put forth an oppression on the Jews that went unrivaled until Hitler’s time. They were offered baptism or death. • In 1215 they were required to wear a distinctive badge to shame them. (This of course was copied by Hitler.) • One of the few things that kept them in existence during these times was their usefulness in ability and money. When their usefulness waned, they were kicked out. • The only country to welcome the Jews was Poland which accounted for its large population of Jews during WWII.
Renaissance – Reformation1400 – 1600 • Martin Luther was a champion of the Jew until he found that he could not convert them to Protestantism. • Luther then renewed old charges and called for: • The burning of their synagogues, • The seizure of their books, • And their expulsion from Germany. • Hitler would find it helpful to quote from and to circulate Luther’s anti-Semitic writings.
Age of enlightenment1600 – 1800 • This was a time period in which civil rights were becoming popular. • Many Jews seized the opportunity and founded new industries and built up commerce.
Era of Nationalism1800 – 1900’s • Nationalism is the idea that one must support the nation and the people that come from that nation. • It also promotes that any ethnicity, race or religion that does not align itself with that nation must be dealt with. • In this era, the Jews were yet again the target of persecution. • Wilhelm Marr presented a “scientific theory” that Jews were the “slave” race and that Germans or Aryans were the “master” race. • The 1870s also presented a problem when Otto von Bismarck released great volumes of militant anti-Semitic writings.
