History AntiSemitism has persisted for over 2000 years It had been around since the beginnings of the Christian Church Nazi Germany took it to a genocidal extreme Leaders of the early European Christian church solidified the doctrine ideas that Jews were responsible for the crucifixion of Chr ID: 459137
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Anti-SemitismSlide2
History
Anti-Semitism has persisted for over 2000 years. It had been around since the beginnings of the Christian Church
Nazi Germany took it to a genocidal extreme
Leaders of the early European Christian church solidified the doctrine ideas that Jews were responsible for the crucifixion of Christ, the destruction of the Temple by the Romans
The scattering of Jewish people was punishment for failing to abandon their faith and accept ChristianitySlide3
Myths:
1) Jews did not work hard or produce goods with their hands
2) Jews chose to work with money and to trade in goods they did not produce because of their skills, their greed, and their desire to manipulate and cheat Christians
3) Jews were cowards in a fair fight and avoided military service
4) Jews preferred meaningless study and frivolous entertainment to hard, creative work
5) Jews were insincere and potentially disloyal in that they converted to Christianity to obtain material benefits.
Where did these ideas come from?Slide4
Blood libel
Myth that stated that Jews used the blood of Christian children for ritual purposes
1894 last trial
Painting of
blood libel
in
Sandomierz
CathedralSlide5
Scattered until 12-15
th
century – invited in certain areas
Poland: manage commerce and handle money-lending (banned in Catholic & Orthodox Churches as immoral)
They were allowed to expand into free professions: music, art, theater, literature, film
Restrictions placed: could not own land or moveable property, enter military service, serve in Royal bureaucracy or civil service Slide6
This all led to Jewish stereotypes:
1) Jews did not work hard or produce goods with their hands
2) Jews chose to work with money and to trade in goods they did not produce because of their skills, their greed, and their desire to manipulate and cheat Christians
3) Jews were cowards in a fair fight and avoided military service
4) Jews preferred meaningless study and frivolous entertainment to hard, creative work
5) Jews were insincere and potentially disloyal in that they converted to Christianity to obtain material benefits. Slide7
World War I
1914-1918
Lost by Germany and Austria
Forced to pay HUGE reparations (last pmt 1988) by Versailles Treaty
Europe’s first experience with mass killing
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia – fear of communismSlide8
Racial Anti-Semitism
Joseph Arthur de
Gobineau
– 1853 -
Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races
Racial superiority of whites/Aryans, diluted when mixed with other races
ExcerptSocial Darwinism – late 1800s/turn of the centuryHumans not one species but divided into several different races Only those with superior qualities could win eternal struggleSlide9
Sixteenth century Protestant Reformer Martin Luther writes:
“First, to set fire to the synagogues and schools, and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them.”Slide10
New anti-Semites armed with new info drew upon older stereotypes to maintain that Jews behaved the way they did because of innate racial qualities inherited from the dawn of time
Believed Jews spread like a germ through Europe and weakened nations by political, economic, media methods as well as “polluting” the so-called pure Aryan blood by intermarriageSlide11
Jewish immigration to the United States increased from 50,000 in 1881 to 3.4 million in 1919
Trying to escape anti-Semitism, poverty and despair
Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic teachings were dismissed as “a Jewish Science”
Albert Einstein a German Jew was awarded the Nobel Peace PrizeSlide12
When Nazis came to power in 1933 there were more than 9 million Jews living in the 21 European nations later occupied by Germans in WWII
560,000 Jews lived in Germany. That’s less than one percent of the entire population
By 1945 two out of three of the 9 million
were deadSlide13
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me. Pastor Martin NiemollerSlide14
Enter Adolf Hitler on the scene in Germany
Private in German army during WWI