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JICYMI from page 2 the centres of Jewish life shifted from western Europe and Catholic Poles in the mid-17th century, which rivaled the worst
Germany to Turkey and then to Poland and Russia. massacres of Jews in the Middle Ages. Periodic persecutions of
to conceive of Jews as facing an unchanging and unceasing But where they were needed, Jews were tolerated. Living Jews in western Europe continued until the late 18th century,
manifestation of anti-Jewish oppression throughout this period. as they did at the margins of society, Jews performed economic when the Enlightenment changed their position, at least in the
In 1096, however, knights of the First Crusade unleashed a functions that were vital to trade and commerce. Because West. It did not necessarily reduce anti-Semitism. Although
wave of anti-Semitic violence in France and the Holy Roman premodern Christianity did not permit moneylending for the major Enlightenment figures championed the light of
Empire, including massacres in Worms, Trier (both now in interest and because Jews generally could not own land, Jews reason in debunking what they regarded as the superstitions
Germany), and Metz (now in France). Unfounded accusations played a vital role as moneylenders and traders. Where they of Christian belief, their thinking did not lead to any greater
of ritual murder and of host desecration and the blood libel— were permitted to participate in the larger society, Jews thrived. acceptance of Jews. Instead of holding Jews responsible for
allegations of Jews’ sacrifice of Christian children at Passover During the Middle Ages in Spain, before their expulsion in the Crucifixion, Enlightenment thinkers blamed them for
to obtain blood for unleavened bread—appeared in the 12th 1492, Jewish philosophers, physicians, poets, and writers were the advent of Christianity and for the injustices and cruelty
century. The most famous example of these accusations, that among the leaders of a rich cultural and intellectual life shared committed by followers of monotheistic religions. Some of
of the murder of William of Norwich, occurred in England, with Muslims and Christians. In collaboration with Arab the most prominent, including Denis Diderot and Voltaire,
but these accusations were revived sporadically in eastern and scholars and thinkers in the tolerant society of Muslim Spain, pilloried the Jews as a group alienated from society who
central Europe throughout the medieval and modern periods. they were ern and central Europe throughout the medieval practiced a primitive and superstitious religion.
In the 1930s the blood libel became part of Nazi propaganda. and modern periods. In the 1930s the blood instrumental in Until the French Revolution of 1789, the status of Jews
Another instrument of 12th-century anti-Semitism, the transmitting the intellectual heritage of the Classical world to in Europe remained tenuous. Treated as outsiders, they had
compulsory yellow badge that identified the wearer as a Jew, medieval Christendom. few civil rights. They were taxed as a community, not as
was also revived by the Nazis. The practice of segregating The idea that the Jews were evil persisted during the individuals. Exclusion from the larger society reinforced
the Jewish populations of towns and cities into ghettos dates Protestant Reformation. Although Martin Luther expressed their religious identity and strengthened their communal
from the Middle Ages and lasted until the 19th and early 20th positive feelings about Jews, especially earlier in his life, and institutions, which served judicial and quasi-governmental
centuries in much of Europe. relied on Jewish scholars for his translation of the Hebrew functions. In the French Revolution, with its promise of
As European commerce grew in the late Middle Ages, some scriptures into German, he became furious with Jews over their liberty, equality, and fraternity, the rights of citizenship were
Jews became prominent in trade, banking, and moneylending, rejection of Jesus. “We are at fault for not slaying them,” he extended to Jews. Still, respect and rights were conditioned
and Jews’ economic and cultural successes tended to arouse wrote. “Rather we allow them to live freely in our midst despite on the willingness of Jews to abandon their age-old customs
the envy of the populace. This economic resentment, allied their murder, cursing, blaspheming, lying and defaming.” Such and their communal identity. This was the meaning of the
with traditional religious prejudice, prompted the forced views were emphasized by the Nazis. They were renounced slogan “To the Jews as individuals everything, to the Jews as
expulsion of Jews from several countries and regions, by the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod in 1983 and the a people, nothing.”
including England (1290), France (14th century), Germany Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1994. France was the vanguard of the movement that gave
(1350s), Portugal (1496), Provence (1512), and the Papal Anti-Semitism In Modern Europe civic and legal equality to the Jews. Napoleon’s conquest of
States (1569). Intensifying persecution in Spain culminated in The end of the Middle Ages brought little change in Jews’ the German states led to emancipation in some of them, but
1492 in the forced expulsion of that country’s large and long- position in Europe, and the Catholic Reformation renewed after his defeat, Jews faced a series of legal setbacks. Full
established Jewish population. Only Jews who had converted anti-Jewish legislation and reinforced the system of ghettoized emancipation of Jews throughout Germany came only with
to Christianity were allowed to remain, and those suspected segregation in Roman Catholic countries. Jews remained the unification of Germany in 1871.
of continuing to practice Judaism faced persecution in the subject to occasional massacres, such as those that occurred Much more to come in the next issue.
Spanish Inquisition. As a result of these mass expulsions, during wars between Eastern Orthodox Ukrainians and Roman
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