THE ROOTS
70 Christian era
Fall of Jerusalem and destruction of the Temple followed by the mass exodus
of Jews from the Land of Israel.
1-4th centuries
Rise of Christianity; anti-Jewish doctrines; charges of deicide and Satanism
lay foundation of anti-Jewish stereotype.
4-10th
centuries
Expansion of Christianity throughout Europe; Catholicism promoted as the
one true faith; domination of Papacy; discrimination against Jews and
their exclusion from guilds; persecution of Jews sanctioned by Canon and
Civil Law.
11-17th
centuries
The Crusades; destruction of Jewish communities; anti-Jewish terror
throughout Christian Europe; Jews accused of ritual murder and poisoning
of wells; burning at the stake and widespread
massacres; anti-Jewish
stereotype ineradicably embedded into Christian culture; burning of
Synagogues and Jewish Holy Books; the
Inquisition; political domination of Christianity; mass expulsion
of Jews
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from
most European countries; establishment of ghettos; Reformation; temporary
decrease in persecution in Protestant lands; Luther publishes antisemitic
tract.
BACKGROUND
TO THE AFFAIR
1749
Birth of Abraham Israel Dreÿfuss recorded in Rixheim.
1791
Declaration of Human Rights; increasing emancipation of Jews; growing
anti-Jewish prejudice at all levels of society.
1835
Jacob Dreÿfuss moves to Mülhausen after anti-Jewish incidents
in Rixheim.
1848
Anti-Jewish demonstration in Alsace.
1850
Wagner publishes antisemitic tract to be followed by Gobinau, Mart, Treitschke,
Dühring, Drumont, etc. claiming racial, intellectual and economic
basis of antisemitism; beginning of modern and political antisemitism.
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