Jewish Persecution

By Cami Wiegand
  • 475 BCE

    475 BCE

    475 BCE
    Haman attempts genocide against the Jews
  • 138 BCE

    139 BCE

    139 BCE
    Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Hispanus expels all Jews from the city of Rome
  • 63 BCE

    63 BCE

    12,000 Jews die and many more are sent into the diaspora
  • 38 BCE

    38 BCE

    Anti-Jewish riots erupt in Alexandria, countless Jews are killed, synagogues are defiled Jewish leaders are publicly scourged
  • 119

    119

    Roman Emperor Hadrian bans circumcision making Judaism de facto illegal
  • 418

    418

    The first record of Jews being forced to convert or face expulsion
  • 529

    529-559

    529-559
    Byzantine Emperor Justinian the Great publishes Corpus Juris Civilis. New laws restrict citizenship to Christians. Jewish civil rights restricted:"they shall enjoy no honors"
  • 1096

    1096

    1096
    The First Crusade, 800 are killed in Worms. Another 1200 Jews commit suicide to escape. All in all 5,000 Jews were murdered.
  • 1190

    1190

    57 Jews in St. Edmunds are killed in a massacre on Palm Sunday
  • 1287

    1287

    A 16 year old boy is found dead in the Rhine. Immediately the Jews of Oberwesel are accused of killing the boy. Over 40 men, women, and children were killed by rioters.
  • 1328

    1328

    5,000 Jews are massacred and their houses are burned down following anti-Jewish preaching by a Franciscan friar
  • 1474

    1474

    On Assumption day August 15 1474, Christians wreaked brutal havoc on the Jewish dwellers of Modica. Christians slaughtered 360 Jews.

  • 1631

    1631
    Due to awful conditions in the Jewish Ghetto of Padua, 421 out of the 721 Jews living in the ghetto perish

  • 1686

    1686
    Only 500 Jews survive after Austria sieges the city of Buda. Half of them are sold into slavery.

  • 1785

    Ali Burzi Pasha murders hundreds of Libyan Jews

  • 1805

    200-500 Algerian Jews are massacred in what was dubbed the Black Sabbath massacre

  • 1850

    1850
    Das Judenthum in der Musik is published attacking Jews in general and composers Giacomo Meyerbeer and Felix Menelssohn in particular

  • 1882

    1882
    First International Anti-Jewish Congress convenes at Dresden, Germany

  • 1918

    1918
    3,000-10,000 Mountain Jews are killed during March Days

  • 1925

    1925
    Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf