Did Jewish immigration in Europe cause prejudice ?

Answer 1

cane and able was the start ............................

Answer 2

Jewish colonies in Europe date from long before the Roman Empire. Yet, trouble started after the fall of the Roman Empire. The ethos of the time in Europe considered the accumulation of wealth as "impure," while waging war for the sake of one's faith was noble.

Thus, when the cities started growing in the 9th and 10th century, wealth was concentrated in two places: monasteries and castles. In the cities, all activities related to money were left to Jews, since they were impure anyway. Nobles and monks could not be impure since they had a special relationship to God.

By the 12th and 13th century, the cities were starting to be richer than the monasteries and the castles: they were thriving, population was increasing, there were guilds, there was commerce and the first schools were appearing.

As the Middle Ages advanced, the monasteries and the castles loss importance and the cities because more and more important. And those who controlled the money in the cities were the Jews.

Thus, because they were considered "impure," it was that Jews by the end of the Middle Ages had accumulated wealth. They had been "punished" early in the Middle Ages with the charge of taking care of money matters. That punishment became a boon.

By the 17th century, Europeans realized the only way to get all the wealth the Jewish bankers, brokers, changers, etc. had accumulated was through genocide. Which is exactly what they did.

So no, it wasn't their immigration but the fact that they became very successful. Think of the Black people in many cities in the USA: they were not attacked until they managed a successful parallel economy and became wealthier than the surrounding whites (ex.: Tulsa).

Answer 3

I really don't know what time frame you are speaking of. There have always been Jewish people in Europe.

Answer 4

I think the prejudice was already there. it might have fanned the flames of it but theres a long history of prejudice to Jews.

Answer 5

No....predjudice found a convenient outlet among Jewish immigrants.

Answer 6

Jews have been persecuted since the dawn of time, immigration had nothing to do with it.

Answer 7

Don't get it...immigration to where?...prejudice by whom?

Answer 8

No not at all, because they came here legally. Some people are prejudiced of the religion though.