JUDAIC 386 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Blood Libel, Racial Antisemitism, Greek Orthodox Church
18 Sep 2016
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Antisemitism in history: from the early church to 1400. Antisemitism has occurred in changing forms for over two thousand years. When the nazi"s took power in germany in 1933 they took the racial antisemitism of the. Jews to a genocidal extreme, except the holocaust began with words and ideas like: stereotypes, sinister cartoons, gradual spread of hate. Jewish people was punishment for past transgressions and for the continued failure to leave their faith and accept christianity as their new religion. As time went on, these doctrines became permanent against the jews because: of the threat to the church hierarchy from the impending split between. Roman catholicism and greek orthodoxy: successive waves of muslim conquest, end of millennium fervor, successes in converting the ethnic groups of northern europe, military-spiritual zeal of the crusades. The jews wanted to keep their religion and culture which caused them to become the bearers of the only minority religion on a christian continental.
