1. The Nature and Origins of Medieval Anti-Semitism
... now?. The answer, while a rather complicated one in full, is that the anti-semitism exhibited today traces from it's beginnings in medieval times and even earlier. The Crusades were a blood bath of terror, a massacre of the Jews and non-Christians, to which history would repeat several centuries later, in an even more horrific consequence, known by virtually all as the Holocaust ... . These forced conversions created a large class of converts to Christianity. Continued attacks on the Jewish people were increasingly common, with prejudices and teachings of discrimination encouraged by Chr...
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