The term Ghetto is derived for the "campo gheto," an area that iron foundries in Venice in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries used for cooling slag where Jews were forced to locate.
Agatharchides of Cnidus wrote about the "ridiculous practices" of the Jews and of the "absurdity of their Law,"
There was continuity in the hostile attitude to Judaism from the ancient Roman Empire into the medieval period.
In the later Middle Ages in Europe there was full-scale persecution in many places, with blood libels, expulsions, forced conversions and massacres.
In 1750 Frederick 2 issued Revidiertes General Privilegium und Reglement vor die Judenschaft: the "protected" Jews had an alternative to either abstain from marriage or leave Berlin.
French Jews were described by the author George L. Mosse as a "nation within a nation" in 1890. in October 1894, Dreyfus (a Jew) was arrested and convicted of treason by a military tribunal in December 1894. The Dreyfus Affair was a typical antisemitic act.
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