Antisemitism in the Middle Ages

By the year 1000 B.C.E the Jews had founded Israel as their national state (“Jews”). They actively practiced a very distinctive religion, Judaism. Israel was conquered several times and eventually came under the rule of the Roman Empire (“Jews”). During this time, Jews were legal citizens of the Empire. However, the Jews and Christians diverged quickly; the Jews were marginalized for being different and strange. They rejected the belief that Jesus is the Messiah and other christian laws. Eventually the Jewish revolt in 135 C.E. drove the Jews out of Jerusalem (“Jews”). They then lived throughout the Roman Empire and the materializing medieval states. They lived in their own communities called ghettos because they were not allowed to own land

Life in the ghetto was subjected to death. Many took their own lives, and others tried to escape.

In the ghetto the Jewish created their small government within the ghetto to keep order within the premier of the ghetto. "A Jewish Council was appointed, as well as a Jewish police force, a welfare agency, a Labor community, a health agency-a whole governmental apparatus." (Page 12). The Jewish people have no fear of the situation of being put in a ghetto by the German soldiers. Around the town two ghettos were made for housing the Jewish population: one

The ghettos were streets where Jewish people lived. The three main ghettos were Lodz, Warsaw, and Theresienstadt. It had horrible living conditions. They were non-sanitary, bad electricity, extremely crowded, and there was not enough food. Contagious diseases spread rapidly due to all of these bad conditions. Everyday children became orphaned, and many had to take care of younger

In medieval Spain, Christians, Jews, and Muslims coexisted with little to no problems. During power swings from Muslims to Christians, Jews often served as a middle man between the two. They ended up in their own communities under their own rule free to do whatever they like. In these communities, there was the normal distribution of wealthy and poor, with most being commoners, but some Jews acquiring jobs from Lords such as tax and tithing collection. During this period, the

In 1939, the Ghettos were introduced, thousands of Jews were herded up and sent to live behind barbed wire and brick walls. The conditions in the Ghettos were scandalous,with little food, inadequate clothing and overcrowding, many Jewish individuals

In the early years of medieval Spain; Christians, Muslims and Jews practiced a relatively peaceful coexistence. While they did not agree with one another’s religious practices and traditions, there was a certain level of tolerance for the other. Many Jews maintained upper class lifestyles, holding positions in such professions as medicine, law, and even royal and

The first place the Jews were sent, as stated by the Nazi’s “Final Solution”, were the ghettos. Ghettos during the Holocaust were located in small German cities. Jews were isolated from the rest of society as they spent endless days

The Lower East Side was a cornucopia of Jews from various parts of the world.

The ghettos, small villages that were only a few blocks in area where hundreds and possibly thousands of Jews lived, were created to rid and kill them quicker than they had already been doing so. Their resources were limited in quite a few ghettos. Many people didn't have the luxury of buying whatever they needed when they needed it. No one got the luxury of having their own room, let alone house, to their own family. 2-3 families and quite possibly more lived in one room.

The book The Long Way Home; An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War by David Laskin, took place in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Showing varies groups of immigrants from all around the world, like Southern and Eastern Europe, China, Southeast Asia and many others. Laskin explains that many of these immigrants fled from their homelands to the United States of America for many reasons, like the Civil War, religion, and lack of opportunities; as in jobs, land, money and more. All these immigrants brought to the United States varies beliefs and languages. David Laskin begins telling us stories about twelve different immigrants that came to the United States from different lands, such as Finland, Germany, Southern Italy, Jewish Settlement and many more lands.

It all commence in the 1516’s when ghetto came to our creation. The term ghetto is really originated from the jewish quarter in venice. Ghetto was a place that they isolated jews from other

Ghetto in Krakow is shown in the movie, Schindler 's List. The ghetto scenes in the movie

When Hitler and the Nazi party began terrorize Europe, the Nazis would not discriminate the differences in origin among the Jews. All the Jews under their power were all the same. However, this did not stop Sephardic Jews from trying to persuade Nazis that there was a difference. An example of this would be Sam Levy who wrote the Nazi party leadership trying to make a distinction, in the hope that the Sephardic Jews would be spared. In his letter, Levy argued, “in all the countries of the world, including Palestine, where there are Sephardim (Ario-Latins of Mosaic Faith) and Ashkenazim (form Greater Germany, Hungary, Poland and Russia), two strictly separate communities exist” (Cohen and Stein, Document 89, 263). Levy was trying to imply that the Sephardim were different from the Jews that the Nazis were after. Levy even goes further by stating that Sephardic Jews were “Aryans of the Mosaic Belief” (Cohen and Stein, Document 89, 264). However, the Nazis did not care for origin or even linguistic differences. For them, the Jews were all the same and that they needed to be exterminated. This circumstance proves that Sephardic Jews wanted to establish the separate identity to escape being sent to death

The country of Poland in central Europe has a long history with the Jewish people. Jewish history in Poland dates all of the way back to the tenth century when Jewish immigrants first arrived. They immigrated from countries such as Germany, Romania, and the Byzantine Empire. Many of the Jewish immigrants were tradesmen, merchants, and small business owners. They also introduced their own language called Yiddish to Poland. Many Jews came to “Poland in the Middle Ages to escape persecution during the crusades” (Crowe 69). Jews came to Poland because they were more accepted in Poland than anywhere else. According to Crowe, in 1264 Prince Boleslaw the Pius issued “the Statute of Kalisz” (69). This statute put the Jews under the Prince's protection