Jewish Persecution Y9 Flashcards
What is Anti-Semitism
Prejudice against Jewish people
When were Jewish people forced to live in ghettos after being denied from citizenship
Throughout the middle ages
In the ancient empires of Babylonia, Greece, and Rome what happened to Jews
They were often criticized and persecuted
What increased the anti-Semitism across much of Europe?
The rise of Christianity
What did the early christians do? And what did they accuse Jews of?
They vilified Judaism in a bid to gain more converts.
Accused Jews of outlandish acts such as “blood libel”
What is “blood libel”
The kidnapping and murder of Christian children to use their blood to make Passover bread
What is a Judenhut
A special hat that Jews had to wear in some countries to distinguish themselves from Christians
What are pogroms and what time period did they begin
They are violent anti-Jewish riots and they happened throughout 1800s and early 1900s
How many pogroms happened in the wake of the Russian Revolution in Ukraine alone? How many people did it kill? And between what time period
There were 1,326 pohroms
Killed an estimated 30,000 to 70,000 people between 1918 and 1921
Extra info( it left half a mil Ukrainian Jews homeless)
What happened to the Jews of Germany after they lost WW1
Hitler blamed the Jews for their defeat and for the social and economic uoheaval that followes
What did the Nazi propagandists swayed the German public into believing
Jews were a seperate race. Jews were no longer German citizens and had no right to vote
What happened after Hitler had power of Germany after starting Jewish hate
The holocaust
