JUDAIC 386 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ashkenazi Jews, Orthodox Judaism
9 Sep 2016
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War & genocide: why the jews, anti-semitism why the jews? a. i. Antisemitism: the hatred of jews, the term was coined in the 1870"s by a german journalist who wanted to contrast his scientific antipathy towards jews with religious forms of anti-judaism. a. ii. This term can be found back some millennia but it seems to be the same yet always changes. a. iii. Antisemitism can be misleading because semitic means a group of related languages with the people who speak them. a. iv. To reduce the jews tot nothing but victims and the jewish past to nothing but a chain of misery does not do the correct justice in. Antisemitism is a critical factor in this question but it does not explain everything about the holocaust and why it had happened. We need to look at the histories of eugenics, racism, and attitudes towards outsiders. a. vi. Hatred towards the jewish population in europe has gone past the.
