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1 A History of anti-semitism By Encyclopaedia Britannica on Word Count 2,000 Level MAX A Croatian Jewish man (left) and a Jewish woman wear the symbol that all Jews in Germany and countries conquered or allied with Germany had to display at all times: a badge made of yellow cloth with the Star of David on it. AP Photo Hostility toward Jews or discrimination against them as a group is known as anti-semitism. The word Semite refers to a number of different peoples from southwestern Asia, including both Jews and Arabs. Anti-Semitism, however, usually refers only to discrimination against Jews. Jews have been discriminated against both as a religious group and as a racial group. Anti- Semites have long targeted Jews because they have different religious beliefs. Starting in the 19th century, a new form of anti-semitism, based on race, emerged. In the 20th century, Nazi anti-semitism which culminated in the killing of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust had a This article is available at 5 reading levels at 1

2 racist dimension. The Nazis persecuted the Jews because of their supposed biological characteristics even Jews who had converted to other religions or whose parents were converts. Origins of Christian Anti-Semitism In the ancient world, anti-semitism emerged because of religious differences, a situation that worsened as a result of the competition between Judaism and Christianity. Jesus and his followers were practicing Jews, and Christianity is rooted in the Jewish teaching that there is only one God. Nevertheless, Judaism and Christianity became rivals soon after Jesus was crucified by Pontius Pilate, who executed him according to contemporary Roman practice. The break between Judaism and Christianity followed the Roman destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in the year A.D. 70 and the subsequent exile of Jews. This devastating defeat was interpreted by Jews and Christians alike as a sign of divine punishment. In the aftermath of this defeat, the Christian Gospels part of the New Testament of the Bible blamed Jews for Jesus death. Jews were depicted as killers of the Son of God. The rivalry between Judaism and Christianity was both religious and political. Christianity was intent on replacing Judaism by making its own particular message universal. By the fourth century, Christians tended to see Jews as an alien people who were condemned to perpetual migration because they did not accept Jesus Christ as the Messiah (a savior sent to deliver people from sin). When the Christian church became dominant in the Roman Empire, its leaders inspired many anti-semitic laws by Roman emperors. These laws were designed to segregate Jews and curtail their freedoms when they appeared to threaten Christian religious domination. As a result, Jews were increasingly forced to the margins of European society. Christian hostility toward the Jews was expressed most acutely in the church s teaching of contempt. From St. Augustine in the fourth century to Martin Luther in the 16th, some of the most eloquent and persuasive Christian leaders called the Jews rebels against God and murderers of the Lord. The Jews were described as companions of the Devil and as a race of vipers. The Roman Catholic Church finally renounced such views with a declaration of the Second Vatican Council in Luther s anti-semitic views were renounced by the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod in 1983 and by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in Anti-Semitism in Medieval Europe During the Middle Ages, Jews were denied citizenship and its rights in much of Europe, though some societies were more tolerant. Jews were not allowed to hold posts in the government and the military and were excluded from membership in the guilds and the professions. In some places, Jews were forced to wear distinctive clothing, such as a yellow badge. (This practice was later revived by the Nazis.) At times Jews were subjected to anti- Semitic violence, including massacres by knights of the First Crusade in The Jewish This article is available at 5 reading levels at 2

3 populations of towns and cities began to be required by law to live in separate districts known as ghettos. This segregation lasted until the 19th and early 20th centuries in large parts of Europe. Many myths about Jews that have persisted into the modern era developed during the Middle Ages. Unfounded accusations of the blood libel untrue charges that Jews sacrifice Christian children at Passover to obtain blood for unleavened bread appeared in the 12th century. These superstitious accusations reemerged in eastern and central Europe throughout the medieval and modern periods. In the 1930s in Germany, the blood libel became part of Nazi propaganda. As European commerce grew in the late Middle Ages, some Jews became prominent in trade, banking, and moneylending. Jews economic and cultural successes tended to arouse the envy of others. This economic resentment, along with traditional religious prejudice, prompted several countries and regions to expel, or force out, the Jews. Among the places that Jews were forced to leave were England (in 1290), France (14th century), Germany (1350s), Spain (1492), Portugal (1496), and the Papal States (1569). But where they were needed, Jews were tolerated. Living as they did at the margins of society, Jews performed economic functions that were vital to trade and commerce. Christianity at the time did not permit moneylending for interest, and Jews generally could not own land. For these reasons, Jews played a vital role as moneylenders and traders. Where they were permitted to participate in the larger society, Jews thrived. During the Middle Ages in Spain, before the Jews expulsion in 1492, Jewish philosophers, physicians, poets, and writers were among the leaders of a rich cultural and intellectual life shared with Muslims and Christians. Anti-Semitism in Modern Europe The idea that Jews were evil persisted during the Protestant Reformation. In Roman Catholic countries the Counter-Reformation renewed anti-jewish laws and reinforced the system of making Jews live in ghettos. Jews were occasionally subjected to massacres. The Enlightenment and the French Revolution brought a new religious freedom to Europe in the 18th century, but did not reduce anti-semitism, because Jews continued to be regarded as outsiders. In the late 18th century large numbers of Jews came under Russian rule. The Jews of the Russian Empire were allowed to live only in the western provinces, in a region known as the Pale of Settlement. In 1882, Russian laws took away all rural land from Jews and required them to live in the towns and cities within the Pale. These measures crippled many Jews activities as rural traders and artisans. Over the next four decades, more than a million Jews left the Russian Empire, mainly for the United States. In addition to the anti-semitic laws, violent mob attacks on Jews called pogroms occurred in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Especially severe pogroms broke out in 1903 and 1905 in what is now Moldova. This article is available at 5 reading levels at 3

4 In the early 20th century the Russian secret police published a document called Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. It was supposedly a blueprint for a Jewish plot to achieve world domination. However, the document was really a fake it was written as propaganda to inspire and provide a rationale for anti-semitism. Meanwhile, in the French Revolution of 1789, France had been at the forefront of the movement that officially gave civic and legal equality to the Jews. Even in France, however, anti-semitism persisted. The Dreyfus affair became a focal point for French anti-semitism. In 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a highly placed Jewish army officer, was falsely accused of treason. Many anti-semitic groups held him up as a symbol of the supposed disloyalty of French Jews. Although Dreyfus was eventually cleared of all wrongdoing in 1906, the case remained highly controversial. In the 19th century so-called scientific racism emerged in Europe, and anti-semitism acquired a racial rather than a religious character. Theories claiming to be scientific asserted that the Jews were inferior to the so-called Aryan (white) race. These theories gave anti- Semitism new respectability and popular support, especially in countries where Jews could be made scapegoats for existing social or political problems. In this new climate, anti-semitism became a powerful political tool. In both Germany and Austria in the late 19th century, anti- Semitism became an organized movement with its own political parties. Nazi Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust Anti-Semitic violence of terrifying intensity occurred in Nazi Germany under the leadership of Adolf Hitler from 1933 to In the Holocaust anti-semitism reached a dimension never before experienced. The Nazis sought the final solution to the Jewish question, the murder of all Jews men, women, and children and their eradication from the human race. In Nazi beliefs, eliminating the Jews was seen as essential to the purification and even the salvation of the German people. This article is available at 5 reading levels at 4

5 The idea of Aryan racial superiority appealed both to the masses and to economic elites. In Germany anti-semitism became official government policy. It was taught in the schools, elaborated in scientific journals and research institutes, and promoted by a huge, highly effective organization for international propaganda. In 1941, the elimination of all European Jews became official Nazi policy. As German armies moved into Poland, the Balkans, and the Soviet Union during World War II, special mobile killing units called the Einsatzgruppen rounded up and murdered huge numbers of Jews and others. After the Wannsee Conference, a meeting of Nazi leaders in 1942, Jews from all over Nazi-occupied Europe were systematically sent to concentration and extermination camps. There they were either killed or forced into slave labor. Ultimately, an estimated six million Jews and millions of others were killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. Anti-Semitism Since the Holocaust and Outside Europe For a period of time after the Nazi defeat in World War II in 1945, anti-semitism lost favor in western Europe and the United States. Even people who were anti-semitic were hesitant to express it. In the years after the war, American Jews became an integrated part of culture and society in the United States. Virulent anti-semitic acts were carried out less often and were less tolerated by American society but they still occasionally occurred. Additionally, anti-semitism remained a more widespread and severe problem in many other countries, notably the Soviet Union. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin engaged in a purge of Jews until his death in 1953, and anti-semitism continued in the Soviet Union and Russia in the following decades. There were also anti-jewish purges in Poland in and In the This article is available at 5 reading levels at 5

6 early 1990s the Soviet Union broke apart and communism fell in eastern Europe. In the late 20th century the Roman Catholic Church and other Christian churches transformed their teachings regarding Jews, condemning anti-semitism. Nevertheless, anti-semitism persisted in many parts of the world into the 21st century, including in the Middle East. For many centuries, Islamic societies had tolerated Jews and treated them much like other non-muslims. In the 20th century, however, large numbers of Jews moved to Palestine. In 1948, the State of Israel was created in the area as a homeland for the Jews in what had been an Arab region. This aroused new currents of hostility toward Jews within the Arab world. Many anti-jewish measures were adopted throughout the Muslim countries of the Middle East. In response, most of the Jewish residents of those countries immigrated to Israel in the decades after its founding. Israel and its Arab neighbors fought a series of wars. From the Yom Kippur War of 1973 onward, the existence of the Israeli state seemed to fuel the longstanding fires of anti-semitic hatred. Anti-Semitic myths that in the post-holocaust era had been discarded by western Europe such as the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and the blood libel made their way into the Middle East. These myths flourished with support from religious authorities, the media, and some governments. In Europe, the presence of a large Muslim immigrant population was believed to have strengthened anti-semitism there. In the Muslim world, the intense anger and attacks against Israel often appeared not to differentiate between Israelis and Jews. Armed attacks were aimed at Israeli civilian and military targets alike. In many Western countries a significant part of the political left became highly critical of Israel s policies toward the Palestinians. Scholars and students of anti- Semitism struggled to distinguish between legitimate criticism of policies of the Israeli government and anti-semitism. This article is available at 5 reading levels at 6

7 Quiz 1 Read the sentence from the section "Origins of Christian Anti-Semitism." In the aftermath of this defeat, the Christian Gospels part of the New Testament of the Bible blamed Jews for Jesus death. Does this sentence support a central idea of the article? Why or why not? (A) (B) (C) (D) Yes, it develops the idea that anti-semitism originated as a result of religious differences between Judaism and Christianity. Yes, it develops the argument that Jews were responsible for Jesus' death. No, it does not develop the contrast between ancient anti-semitism and modern anti-semitism. No, it does not develop the idea that anti-semitism has evolved from its ancient origins. 2 What are the two central ideas of the article? (A) (B) (C) (D) Judaism and Christianity became rival religions shortly after Jesus was crucified; many myths about Jews that have persisted into the modern era began during the Middle Ages. Anti-Semitism began as a religious conflict between Judaism and Christianity; today, many anti-semitic myths flourish in the Middle East where there is conflict between Muslims and Jews over Israel. During the Middle Ages, Jews were denied citizenship in much of Europe; today, anti-semitic beliefs are no longer tolerated. "Scientific racism" emerged in Europe in the 19th century; much of the political left is critical of Israel's policies toward Palestinians. This article is available at 5 reading levels at 7

8 3 Read the sentence from the section "Origins of Christian Anti-Semitism." Jews were depicted as killers of the Son of God. What is the connotation of the word "depicted" in the sentence? Which sentence from the article supports your answer? (A) (B) (C) (D) Positive; Jesus and his followers were practicing Jews, and Christianity is rooted in the Jewish teaching that there is only one God. Positive; The break between Judaism and Christianity followed the Roman destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in the year A.D. 70 and the subsequent exile of Jews. Negative; In the aftermath of this defeat, the Christian Gospels part of the New Testament of the Bible blamed Jews for Jesus death. Negative; The rivalry between Judaism and Christianity was both religious and political. 4 Read the sentence from the section "Anti-Semitism in Medieval Europe." Living as they did at the margins of society, Jews performed economic functions that were vital to trade and commerce. Which two words would BEST replace "margins" and "vital" in the sentence above? (A) (B) (C) (D) interior; trivial bottom; formal edge; important center; relevant This article is available at 5 reading levels at 8

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