Brief History of Anti-Semitism

By hjankowski1
  • 476 BCE

    Jewish Discrimination in the Roman Empire

    At around the year stated, humans were nearing the end of the Roman Empire and turning to a christian era. At this point in the Roman Empire, Romans had taken over Palestine, a Jewish country, and had demanded they follow Roman religion. When they denied, they were called "Stubborn, clannish, and hostile."
  • 1500

    Jewish Discrimination (Cont.) and Separation

    At this point in time (16th Century), Jews were the minority in Europe and still seen as an inferior "race" because of simply misunderstood history. Jews were being separated into ghettos and little towns controlled and away from Christians. Jews were seen as "agents of the devil" and were blamed for a good amount of things.

  • Anti-Semitism and "Race"

    (1700s-1800s) Ghettos and walls were coming down and Jews were being allowed to join society again, but a "new idea" of "race" came to be. People thought of their ancestors and what their "race" was just by what they're made out of (ethnicity). Jews were still seen as bad people and were called the "Semitic" race which soon became the origin of Anti-Semitism.

  • The Holocaust

    In 1933, Hitler became the chancellor of Germany and within weeks began showing his ideas of Anti-Semitism by making laws against the Jewish. In 1941, Hitler began his journey of sending millions of Jews to concentration camps (death camps) where they would basically work until they die or get killed in the process in gas chambers or shooting lines. (1941- May 1945)