What was the impact of the Christian crusades on the Jews?

Answer 1

Christians were equal opportunity bashers. In order to Warm Up for War in the Holy Land, Crusaders swept through Jewish Ghettos killing raping pillaging. Jewish Communities were forced to pay ransoms to finance crusaders. When the Crusaders swept into Constantinople they committed atrocities against Orthodox Christians as well as Jews & Muslims. It can be argued that much of the hatred Muslims have towards Jews was a result of the Crusades. When Christians were successful enough to take Jerusalem, they initially treated Jews marginally better than Muslims and many Muslims resented this. Many Jews were accussed of aiding the Christians. Thus the Crusades made things worse for The Jews. Where once the Jews had one enemy, Christians, now they had another, Muslims.

Answer 2

Considering that the Crusades were against the Muslims and not the Jews, whatever effect there was at the time, must have been minimal because very little has come down to use about any impact to them.

The REAL problem for the Jews was what came out of the Crusades and the unrest after that time in the form of the Inquisition. After the Muslims were driven out of Spain and the Alhambra slipped into Spanish hands.... the Church wanted to stamp out all vestiges of any religion that was not Catholic... so the office of Inquisition General was created to develop religious courts to track down heretics and give them a chance to repent and accept Christianity... OR ELSE..!

It was not the Crusades that resulted in tyranny of the Jews but the Catholic Church in the form of the Inquisition.

Answer 3

The First Crusade was an organizational mess. While the experienced military commanders were raising and organizing their forces, there was a parallel "peoples crusade" consisting of common people who had "caught the spirit" of the religious revival preached by priests & clergy during the propaganda campaign to run up enthusiasm for the crusade. Borne by faith & having no idea of the distances & difficulties they would face this group marched in a human wave through East Europe down to Constantinople, tramping over farm fields, eating the locals out of house & home & attacking Jewish communities as they found them. Most of them never made it to the Holy Land.

Of the armies that did make it Jerusalem, the first thing they did (following the recent western custom in treating enemy cities that refused to surrender) was conduct a mass slaughter of all the residents of Jerusalem they could find, including Christians & Jews, as well as Muslims.

Answer 4

Crusades And Jews

Answer 5

The impact was more important on muslims, because in that time Christian and jews lived in a more or less good realations.
The crusades had as goal to save jesus temple, that was in hands of the muslims.

Answer 6

The "Christians" were terrible for everyone in the Middle East. Often, they were really the scum of Europe. But the Pope declared that anyone who went on crusade would have all their sins forgiven, so they were all too eager to go. They didn't care what religion the people were--they even killed fellow Christians who were already living in the Holy Land. Since they considered Jews to be infidels, too, they killed them just like they did the Muslims.

Answer 7

Bloody!