How were the Jews discriminated against during the middle ages?

Answer 1

There are an immense number of reasons, ranging from politics to economics to religious practices to social tendencies to confusion to imperial conquests to retribution (perceived or actual).

The Jews had many traits that made them easy targets for discrimination.

1. They were spread out or were nomads as a community always making them a minority.

2. Their religion is specific to their culture (despite being essentially the same as Christianity) made them different.

3. They looked different with specific facial markers, skin colour and clothes which made them easy to spot.

4. The Jews were often successful in business which meant they were richer than most which made people jealous.

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i think its because Hitler hated anyone different and the important thing to remember is that it wasn't only the Jews that were discriminated against, disabled (mentally and physically) people and many other religions were killed to If they did not agree with Hitler.

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They are apparently responsible for Jesus' death, and their laws permitted them to charge interest on loans - which they did - while Christians could not. This engendered a lot of jealousy and hate for them in the general population. Their ways (such as not allowing people to 'become' Jews; this is part of Jewish custom that a Jew must have a Jewish mother) also created an atmosphere of mistrust. People wondered what they were doing and what they were planning. Paranoia, envy, hate and a fairly easy excuse, for the time anyway, combined to make the unfortunate Jews the target of many persecutions throughtout history; examples of such time are obviously the Holocaust and the period of the Black Death.

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The previous answer contains multiple errors. According to the New Testament, the Jews were not responsible for the death of Jesus, but many Christians perceived them as responsible. Also, anyone is allowed to become a Jew. Jews welcome converts, they just don't seek them out. Historically, it was the oppressors of the Jews who forbade conversion to Judaism. Also, Jews were moneylenders because this was one of the few occupations they were allowed to hold, and they did not charge exorbitant rates. They simply charged interest while the Christians were forbidden to charge interest. This created animosity.

Answer 2

Because the definition of Aryan was being of the Zoroastianism religon. In all actuality, Hitler's ideas for being Aryan was totally wrong. But he felt they were true so he came up with the final solution.

Answer 3

Historians have listed six explanations as to why some people hate the Jews:
1) Economic: Some people hate Jews because "they possess too much wealth and power."
2) Chosen People: Some hate the Jews because Jews claim that they are the chosen people (Exodus ch.19 and other passages).
3) Scapegoat: Jews seem to be a convenient group to single out and blame for the troubles of society.
4) Deicide: Some hate the Jews "because they killed Jesus."
5) Outsiders: Some hate the Jews "because they are different than us." (Xenophobia.)
6) Racial Theory: Some hate the Jews "because they are an inferior race."

As we examine the explanations, we must ask: Are they causes for anti-Semitism or excuses for it? The difference being, that if one takes away the cause, then anti-Semitism should no longer exist. If one can show a contradiction to the explanation, it demonstrates that the "cause" is not a reason, it is just an excuse.Let's look at some of the contradictions:

Economic -- The Jews of 17th- 19th century Poland and Russia were dirt poor and had no influence, and yet they were hated.

Chosen People -- a) In the late 19th century, most Jews of Germany denied "Chosenness;" and they assimilated. Yet the holocaust started there.

b) Christians and Moslems also profess to being the "Chosen people," but the world and the anti-Semites tolerate them.

Scapegoat -- Any group must already be hated to be an effective scapegoat. The Scapegoat theory does not cause anti-Semitism. Rather, anti-Semitism is what makes the Jews a convenient target. Hitler's ranting and ravings would not be taken seriously if he said, "It's the bicycle riders and the midgets who are destroying our society."

Deicide -- a) the Christian Bible says the Romans killed Jesus, with Jews mentioned as accomplices. (The claims that Jews directly killed Jesus came several hundred years later). Why are the alleged accomplices persecuted, but there hasn't been an anti-Roman movement through history?

b) Jesus himself said, "Forgive them [i.e., the Jews], for they know not what they do." And the Second Vatican Council in 1963 officially exonerated the Jews as the killers of Jesus. Neither of these events lessened anti-Semitism.

Outsiders -- With the Enlightenment in the late 18th century, many Jews rushed to assimilate. Anti-Semitism should have stopped. Instead, for example, the Nazis proclaimed in essence: We hate you, not because you're different, but because you're trying to become like us! We cannot allow you to "infect" the Aryan race with your "inferior genes."

Racial Theory -- The overriding problem with this theory is that it is self-contradictory: Jews are not a race. Anyone can become a Jew - and members of every race, creed and color in the world have done so at one time or another.

Answer 4

The Jews were discriminated by being gassed, shot, stripped of all their clothes and forced to sleep with the dead. They were took out of schools and got the worst job.

Answer 5

Fear, bigotry, and Christian belief-based hatred (such as the mistaken notion that Jews are responsible for the death of Jesus).

Answer 6

In Hungary, Jews were kicked out of Budapest repeatedly every time there was a problem.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

They killed them.

Answer 9

The Jew Laws enforced in most of Europe typically had clauses like the following: Jews must wear a distinctive badge or hat identifying them as Jews. Jews may only live in designated walled neighborhoods, or in some cases, Jews may not live here and must pay a daily tax to enter for the purpose of doing business. Jews may not enter any skilled trade but may only earn their livelihoods by loaning money, selling second hand goods, or as brokers in commercial transactions or buying and selling from other Jews. The sound of Jewish worship may not be heard on the street. Add to this rumors that Jews poison wells (the reason for the Black Death), rumors that Jews desecrate the host (steal into churches to torture the communion bread), and rumors that Jews need the blood of Christian children to make matzah for Passover. Many Jews were put to death for these "crimes", and charges of these "crimes" sometimes led to the slaughter of entire Jewish communities.