Anti-Semitism continues to hurt German pocketbooks | Journalist’s Resource
Videos of white nationalists chanting “Jews will not replace us” surely startled anyone who thought anti-Semitism long dead in the America of 2017. But for others it simply confirmed that old prejudices die hard.
Pogroms and attacks on Jews date back to Roman times. But it was in the Middle Ages, when the Church banned Christians from lending money for interest, that Jews took on disproportionate roles in banking and finance. Later, persecution flared at times of economic anxiety, a sentiment some scholars have described as “economic anti-Semitism.”
Pogroms and attacks on Jews date back to Roman times. But it was in the Middle Ages, when the Church banned Christians from lending money for interest, that Jews took on disproportionate roles in banking and finance. Later, persecution flared at times of economic anxiety, a sentiment some scholars have described as “economic anti-Semitism.”
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