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Jan 1, 1100
Blood Libel
The superstitous allegation claiming that Jews murdered non-Jews (particularly Christian children) to collect blood that they then used to make unleavened bread with for Passover. Basically another way of putting the blame on Jews for the crucifixion of Christ. Trials for the blood libels began during the Middle Ages, and was revived by the Nazis.
The first known claim of blood libel was by a monk that found a boy's body in Norwich, England.
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Jul 30, 1492
Jews expelled from Spain
An estimated 200,000 Jews were cast out of Spain by Father Tomas de Torquemada in the same year Colombus journeyed to America. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/expulsion.html -
Sep 28, 1492
Jewish Inquisition
The Jews were driven out of Spain http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Inquisition.html -
Jewish Emancipation in Europe
First period: during the French Revolution (1740-1789)
Second period: under the Congress of Berlin (1789-1878) in Western and Central Europe
Third period: from Congress of Berlin until the rise of power of Nazis (1878-1933) in mostly Eastern Europe
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0006_0_05916.html -
Origin of Pogrom
Russian; "to wreak havoc, to demolish violently"
Originally used to describe attacks by non-Jews on Jewish populations in the Russian Empire. The first known attack was in Odessa at an anti-Jewish riot. The Jewish victims were raped, looted and murdered.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005183
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Jews allegedly kill Christ?
The idea that the Jews were to blame for Jesus' death occur in all four New Testament gospels. It was also carried over during the blood libels. http://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/who-killed-jesus/ -
Ritual Murder
Der Stuermer, a popular Nazi publication, posted a depiction of a medieval ritualistic sacrifice. It read "in 1476 the Jews of Regensburg murdered six boys. They extracted their blood and put them to death as martyrs. The judges found the bodies of the deceased in a subterranean space, which belonged to the Jew Josfal. On an altar there stood a stone plate flecked with blood." http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1120782 -
Jewish Identification Markings
Sicily- Jews pinned a symbol of a donkey on their clothing and wore yellow belts and special hats
England (1218)- the size of the symbol was increased dramatically and made yellow and was to be worn above the heart
Germany (1530)- the yellow badge was required by all, women had to have bells on their clothes in order to be heard from a distance, and men were to wear special hats.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0003_0_01851.html
