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Hatred of Jews or Judaism

Economic Antisemitism

Religious Antisemitism

Nationalistic Antisemitism Racial Antisemitism

On April 1, 1933, the boycott which was

announced by the National Socialistic partybegan.

Placard reads, "Germans, defend yourselves, donot buy from Jews", at the Jewish Tietz store.Berlin.


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Roman Catholic historian Edward Flannery in The Anguish of the Jews:Twenty-Three Centuries of Antisemitism, (1965 and 2004).

Political and economic antisemitism: Cicero, Henry Ford,

and Charles Lindbergh Theological or religious antisemitism, sometimes known

as anti-Judaism

Nationalistic antisemitism: Enlightenment thinkers, who

attacked Jews for supposedly having certaincharacteristics, such as greed and arrogance, and forobserving customs such as kashrut and Shabbat;

Racial antisemitism: Based on pseudo-sciencequiteobvious in Nazi propaganda films.


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The Jew appears powerful and rich. Publications such asthe Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which first appeared in

1905 in Russia, generated or provided support for theoriesof an international Jewish conspiracy.

Jews are supposedly able to carry on trade under morepositive conditions than the rest of the people.

During the Middle Ages the usurer was hated as much as, if

not more than, for Deicide.
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Anti-Judaism

The practice of Judaism itself that was thedefining characteristic of the antisemiticattacks.

Attacks would often stop if Jews stoppedpracticing or changed their public faith,especially by conversion to the official or

right religion. Sometimes Christians practiced the liturgical

exclusion of Jewish converts Example: Iberian Jews in the late 15th and 16th

centuries convicted of secretly practicingJudaism or Jewish customs.

Religious Antisemitism


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The Jews are the most worthless of all men.They are lecherous, greedy, rapacious. They areperfidious murderers of Christ. They worship theDevil. Their religion is a sickness. The Jews arethe odious assassins of Christ and for killing Godthere is no expiation possible, no indulgence orpardon. Christians may never cease vengeance,and the Jew must live in servitude forever. God

has always hated the Jews. It is essential that allChristians hate them.

St. Ambrose in Milan, A.D. 379


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Racial Antisemitism European Antisemitism until the

17th century was religious incharacter, not racial or ethnic. Notable Exception : Spain under the

Inquisition - where descendants ofconverts continued to be as suspectas their Jewish forbears

Secular Antisemitism

Based on the Aryan myth.Pseudo-science.

Genetics. Physical or PsychologicalAttributes. Stereotypicalbehaviors.


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If only one country, for whatever reason, tolerates aJewish family in it, that family will become the germcenter for fresh sedition. If one little Jewish boysurvives without any Jewish education, with nosynagogue and no Hebrew school, it [Judaism] is inhis soul. Even if there had never been a synagogue ora Jewish school or an Old Testament, the Jewishspirit would still exist and exert its influence. It hasbeen there from the beginning and there is no Jew,not a single one, who does not personify it.

- Robert Wistrich, Hitler's Apocalypse, p. 122; from aconversation with Croatian Foreign Minister GeneralKvaternik, July 21, 1941


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In the 1990s, some writers began toidentify a New Antisemitism:

It comes simultaneously from the far left, the

far right, and radical Islam

It tends to focus on opposition to Zionism and

a Jewish homeland in the State of Israel.

The New Antisemitism often uses traditionalantisemitism motifs, including older motifslike the Blood Libel


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The Crusades (1096 - )

Romantic Nationalism

Richard Wagner's Jewry in Music (1850)

The Alfred Dreyfus Affair (1894)

Theodore Herzl 1897 First World Zionist Congress 1917 Balfour Declaration


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A figure from medievalChristian folklorewhose legend beganto spread in Europe in

the thirteenth century.

The original legendconcerns a Jew who

taunted Jesus on theway to the Crucifixionand was then cursedto walk the earth untilthe Second Coming.


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Filmed in the Yiddish language, TheWandering Jewfeatures Jacob Ben-Ami asa young Jewish artist living in Germany inthe early 1930s. As the Nazis gain ininfluence, the artist's life and livelihoodare slowly eroded: his non-Jewish fianceeleaves him and his paintings are rejectedby the Academy of Art. Growing todespise his heritage, the artist prepares todestroy his latest painting, a portrait of hisfather titled The Eternal Jew. Suddenly thefigure in the portrait comes to life.

--Hal Erickson inAll Movie Guide

Der Vanderner Yid , USA, 1933

akaAbraham Our Patriarch,Jews in Exile,Nazi Terror, andThe Jew in Germany


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The Eternal Jewis an antisemiticGerman Nazi propaganda film. Itstitle in German is the German term

for the character of theWandering Jew in medievalfolklore.

At the insistence of Nazi Germanys

Minister of Propaganda, JosephGoebbels, the film was directed byFritz Hippler.

The film consists of feature anddocumentary footage combinedwith materials filmed shortly afterthe Nazi occupation of Poland.


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