Antisemitism Timeline

  • Dec 5, 1046

    First Crusade

    Expedition from Western Europe to recover Jerusalem. The undisciplined mobs accompanying the Crusade attacked the Jews in Germany, France and England and put many to death.
  • Sep 3, 1240

    Expulsion from England

    England kicked the Jewish people out of the country.
  • Oct 9, 1306

    Expulsion from France

    France banned the Jews from their country.
  • Aug 4, 1490

    Spanish Inquisition

    The Spanish inquisition charges Jews and converted Jews of plotting against Christians. About 2000-4000 converted Jews were condemned to death between 1480-1520.
  • May 17, 1516

    New Foundry

    The closed Jewish quarter in Venice, Italy is dubbed the Geto Nuovo (New Foundry )
  • Charges in Poland and Russia

    The Cossack-led programs of Bogdan Chimielnicki erupt in Poland and Russia. Charges of ritual murder and host profanation led to the destruction of about 320 Jewish communities and murder of about 100,000 Jews.
  • Judaism Unmasked

    Johann Andreas Eisenmenger writes his "Judaism Unmasked", a work denouncing Judaism and which had a formative influence on modern anti-semetic polemics.
  • QUOTA

    Russia introduces measuresto limit access to education to Jewish people, known as QUOTA.
  • WWI effects

    The WWI prompts expulsion of 250,000 Jews from Western Russia.