How were the Jews persecuted?

Answer 1

Throughout History, Jews (called Israelites in ancient times) have been persecuted by slavery, war, murder, and limited or no rights under the law of the countries they lived in. But the most egregious example of wide-scale extermination of Jews occurred in the 20th Century.

European Jews were sent to concentration camps and tortured. Some were killed in gas chambers, some were starved to death, and others were put to forced hard labor, on starvation rations.

The events affecting the Jews of Europe during the Nazi era were a culmination of centuries of hate and abuse; Jews were often accused of being the source of society's problems; they were the universal scapegoat. Just one example is the writings of Martin Luther from the mid 1500s in Germany, which were often quoted or paraphrased by Hitler in speeches.

Another example were the centuries of pogroms carried out throughout Russia, the Ukraine and many other countries, as illustrated in the movie "The Fiddler on the Roof," when all the Jews of the village were driven out. That depiction was quite mild; in reality pogroms were often characterized by government sanctioned brutality and murder, perpetrated by the Jews' own neighbors and townspeople.

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Answer 2

Jews have been historically persecuted through the following methods with examples in parenthesis:

• Severe Restrictions in Occupational Choices (Most of Europe in the Middle Ages.)
• Hiring Discrimination with Non-Jews (Middle Ages Europe, Arab World)
• Severe Restrictions in Settlement Areas and Ghetto-ization (Middle Ages Europe, Arab World until 1950 Jewish Exodus)
• Deportations and Forcible Movements (Holocaust, Arab World from 1945-1955)
• Being Openly Banned from Certain Cities (Many major European cities)
• Being Openly Exiled from Countries (England 1290, Spain 1492, Portugal 1497)
• Unreasonable and Exorbitant Taxation (Middle Ages Europe, Arab World)
• Being Put on Trial without Valid Charges (Dreyfus in France 1890)
• Being Put on Trial with Pre-textual Charges (Blood Libels in Middle Ages Europe, Pre-Modern Arab World)
• Being Put on Trial for Failure to Convert to Other Religions (Spanish Inquisition)
• Being Forbidden from Carrying Weapons or Practicing Self-Defense (Ubiquitous until 1700s)
• Being Violently Attacked by Forces Loyal to the Reigning Government (Cossacks in Russia in the 1800s, Holocaust 1930s-1940s)
• Being Violently Attacked by Civilians Protected by the Government (Crusades Jewish Pogroms, Arab Farhud 1941, Ghetto attacks in Venice)
• Being Deprived of Personal Belongings (Quite regularly in Medieval Europe)
• Being Openly Cursed by the Government (Middle Ages Europe and Arab World)
• Having Their Children Forcibly Taken From Them (Czarist Russia late 1800s-1900s)
• Being Forbidden from Practicing Their Faith In Public (Arab World)
• Being Forbidden from Practicing Their Faith At All (Spain Post-1492, Soviet Union)
• Being Mass-Murdered (Holocaust)

Answer 3

Jews have been persecuted in every way imaginable. To see some further detail on the times and means of anti-Semitic persecutions through history, see the link: A list of anti-Semitic persecutions

Answer 4

The Jewish were told they were going to have a shower and then they good locked into a room and gased! Dont ask why but Hitler was one hell of a bad man:

Answer 5

There were many ways they killed, but their main way was allowing them to "shower" upon arriving and they would gas them. Some Jews even died off from sickness or starvation.