Jews were disliked and distrusted in Europe beginning in the Middle Ages and culminating in the Holocaust. Why

Question

What actually caused this centuries old animosity against the Jews in Europe and why had it lasted so long?

Answer 1

I had a whole class in college devoted to this subject. They were disliked and distrusted in Europe in the beginning because they were considered to be the individuals who killed Christ (ironically, Jesus is a Jew).

This religious anti-Semitism continued in the Middle Ages. In the Enlightenment, they did get some sort of a break though Voltaire has been labeled as an anti-Semite. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, religious anti-Semitism evolved into racial anti-Semitism after the publication of Charles Darwin's book, "Origin of the Species." People figured that Jews were of a lower race on the bottom of the racial food chain, so to speak. Adolf Hitler and his Nazis took this "racial theory" further by having Jews sent to death camps.

Unfortunately, there is still anti-Semitic sentiment today, either in certain liberal universities or in the Middle East.

Answer 2

Do you know what Jews do on the Day of Atonement, that you think is so sacred to them?
When, on the Day of Atonement, you walk into a synagogue, you stand up for the very first prayer that you recite. It is the only prayer for which you stand. You repeat three times a short prayer called the Kol Nidre. In that prayer, you enter into an agreement with God Almighty that any oath, vow, or pledge that you may make during the next twelve months shall be null and void. The oath shall not be an oath; the vow shall not be a vow; the pledge shall not be a pledge. They shall have no force or effect. And further, the Talmud teaches that whenever you take an oath, vow, or pledge, you are to remember the Kol Nidre prayer that you recited on the Day of Atonement, and you are exempted from fulfilling them. How much can you depend on their loyalty? You can depend upon their loyalty as much as the Germans depended upon it in 1916.

We are going to suffer the same fate as Germany suffered, and for the same reason.

Answer 3

They were an easy target. Nobody likes to take responcibility for their mistakes so they blame others. So whenever they were in the minority they got blamed, they got blamed for the plague in England because they were there, and got blamed for the problems in Germany because it was easy to.

Answer 4

I don't know, but I would really like to. I don't know which holocaust you mean. There was a Russian one (ie Stalin) or the German one (ie Dresden)?

Answer 5

are Jews the white ones and arabs the brown ones, that is how i remember them.

i like me the white ones

Answer 6

because they caused too much trouble!!