1. Pre-Nazi Antisemitism“Judenhass-Jew Hatred” Hatred of the Jews before the Modern Era

2. Introduction and Definitions • Jews • Judaism • Antisemitism • Shoah/ Holocaust

3. Anti-Judaism • Early Days- competition between Jewish Sects-The Jesus movement as a sect • The separation and competition between the early Church and the Synagogue • 100-500 Religious Anti-Jewish Polemical writings • 410: Emperor Constantine makes Christianity the Roman Religion • Jews as “Christ Killers”

4. Anti-Jewish Laws • Cannot hold public office • Jews Banned from public places • Jews can’t be witnesses in court • Can’t read the Bible in Hebrew • Marriage of Jews and non-Jews prohibited • Christians forbidden to convert to Judaism • Jews not allowed to proselytize non Jews

5. Constantine makes Christianity the State Religion of the Empire Incorporates Anti-Jewish Church canonical legislation into Imperial Law Codes The Church and the Later Roman Empire

6. The Church as the Bride of Christ and a Royal Woman The Synagogue as a disgraced blind and defeated slave The Church and the Synagogue

7. The Crusades

8. The Jews Defined as Infidels

10. Crusades 1096

11. Medieval Images of the Jew The Jews are agents of the Devil and do the Devil’s bidding

12. Jews worshipping Satan

13. Jews with the Devil

14. Abusing the Host (Communion Bread)

15. Abusing the host and burning Jews

17. The Blood Libel

18. A “modern” Blood Libel Image of the Jew

19. Well Poisoning

20. Judensau

21. Medieval badges(Fourth Lateran Council, 1215)

22. Jewish Hats

23. Badges and hats

24. Forcible conversion

26. Spanish Expulsion in 1492 Forced Baptisms and Expulsions

27. The Inquisition

28. Luther and the Jews

29. Luther’s “On the Jews and Their Lies” • Martin Luther (1543)On the Jews and Their Lies • Burn all Synagogues. • Destroy Jewish Dwellings. • Confiscate Jews’ Holy Books. • Forbid Rabbis to Teach. • Forbid Jews to Travel. • Confiscate Jewish Property. • Force the Jews to do Physical Labor • Expel Jews from areas where Christians live.

31. The Venice Ghetto

32. Pogroms in Eastern Europe19th Century Ukraine and Poland

33. Antisemitism in europe 20th c

34. Ritual Murder Accusation in Poland 1899

35. The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion

36. The Storming of the Bastille Voltaire The Enlightenment and the French Revolution

37. The Enlightenment Contract The contract of the Enlightenment: Individual Freedom of religion Toleration “Religion removed to the “private” sphere Everything for the Jew As an individual but Nothing to him as a community

38. Emancipation of the Jews

39. The Jew as molester The Wandering Jew Images of the Jew in the modern era

40. Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jewish Officer is put on trial for treason in 1894 and convicted on false evidence Not exonerated for a number of years The Dreyfus Affair, 1894

41. The Eternal Jew