Jewish Persecution

Question 1

What is anti semitism?

Answer 1

Hostility or prejudice against Jewish people

Question 2

What is most extreme example of anti-semitism?

Answer 2

Holocaust

Question 3

Anti semitism in ancient Babylonia, Greece and rome?

Answer 3

Jews from Judea criticised for efforts to remain a separate culture.

Question 4

What is anti semitism sometimes called?

Answer 4

Histories oldest hatred

Question 5

Who first popularized the term?

Answer 5

Wilhelm Marr (journalist)

Question 6

Ancient time uses of anti semitism

Answer 6

Europe in middle ages, Jews forced into ghettos

Jewish riots swept Russian empire in 19th and 20th century.

incidents have been coming back up in recent years too!

Question 7

What is a ghetto?

Answer 7

is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, especially as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure

Question 8

Rise of Christianity and anti semitism

Answer 8

Early Christians vilified Judaism trying to gain converts

Accused of Jews kidnapping and murder of christian children to use blood for passover bread

Question 9

What did anti-Jew policies in middle ages show?

Answer 9

Attitude towards religion

Question 10

What were Jews denied of in Medieval Europe

Answer 10

Citizenship, civil liberties (including religious freedom)

Question 11

Where did many Nazi Germany practices have roots from?

Answer 11

Medieval Europe

Question 12

How did some countries distinguish Jews?

Answer 12

Yellow badges or hat called Judenhut

Question 13

What were some Jews good at in Medieval Europe

Answer 13

Banking and moneylending

Question 14

What did Jewish banking skills result in?

Answer 14

Economic resentment, forcing Jews to leave European countries in 14th and 15th centuries.

Question 15

What did Poland do in 1264?

Answer 15

Allowed Jews personal, political and religious freedom

Question 16

Hwo long until Jews got citizenships and rights in West Europe?

Answer 16

Late 1700s and 1800s

Question 17

Nuremberg laws 1935?

Answer 17

Made many anti-semitism policies and defined Jews based on ancestry

Question 18

How did Hitler rise in 1930s?

Answer 18

On a platform of German Nationalism, racial purity and global expansion

Question 19

Who did Hitler blame for countries ww1 defeat and economic crisis that followed?

Answer 19

Jews

Question 20

What did nuremberg laws stop Jews from doing?

Answer 20

Having citizenships and voting

Question 21

What did Nazi propoganda do?

Answer 21

Made Germany believe Jews were different race

Question 22

What was “the night of broken glass” (Nov 9-10, 1938)?

Answer 22

State-sponsored campaign for street violence

Question 23

What happened in Kristallnacht?

Answer 23

Jews were targets of stigmatisation and were persecuted

In 2 days, many synogogues were burnt down in Reich and many Jewish businesses were looted.

Question 24

What happened morning after Kristallnacht?

Answer 24

30k Jews arrested and sent to concentration camps

Question 25

What were the russian pogroms?

Answer 25

Violent, anti-Jewish riots that were typically started locally

Question 26

Where were most of pogroms held?

Answer 26

In ukraine, 1326 took place and many went homeless or were killed

Question 27

Where were pogroms?

Answer 27

Belarus, Poland, Ukraine

Question 28

When did Nazi's create holocaust concentration camps?

Answer 28

1939-1945

Question 29

What happened after creation of Jewish state in Israel in 1948?

Answer 29

Israelis fought for Palestine vs Arab states

Question 30

End of Palestine War?

Answer 30

Israel kept much of Palestine, forcing out many muslims

Question 31

Where did anti-semetic attacks grow in Middle East and what happened?

Answer 31

In arab nations, forced many Jews to leave. Conflict created over Jewish nationalism in Muslim-majority nations.

Question 32

Are there many Jews left in middle eastern nations?

Answer 32

No

Question 33

What is resentment?

Answer 33

Bitter indignation of being treated unfairly

Question 34

What was deadliest Jewish attack in American History?

Answer 34

2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

Question 35

Are anti-semetic hate crimes up or down in recent years?

Answer 35

Up, especially in France (3rd largest Jew pop)

Question 36

What doubled in 2018?

Answer 36

Anti-semetic assaults

Question 37

What did islamic terrorist do in US?

Answer 37

Four jew hostages were murdered at a supermarket

Question 38

What is the ADL?

Answer 38

Jewish civil rights organisation

Question 39

Issues of money?

Answer 39

Church forbade Christians to lend money to each other money and charge interest but this was one of the exceptions as they were good bankers

Question 40

Crusades

Answer 40

When the Christian Crusades started in 1095, the Crusaders attacked Jewish communities on their way to the ‘Holy Land’. The Crusaders had been taught that it was important to fight against non-believers and Jews were the non-believers in their midst.

Question 41

Crusade specifications

Answer 41

Jews were not allowed to own property, to join the trade guilds or to move about freely; and in 1215 the Church required that Jews throughout Christendom be marked out with a special badge to identify them

Question 42

Who were the crusades?

Answer 42

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period