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Apr 5, 2015 · After a wave of antisemitic attacks across Europe, many Jews are wondering what the future holds. We hear seven contrasting voices, from France to Turkey Sun 5 Apr 2015 03.30 EDT Last modified on ...
Nov 19, 2021 · After all, if the Jews live safely in Hungary today – even this research does not dispute this – but in the meantime the situation is (one of) the worst in the field of anti-Semitism in Europe ...
the Russian army moved to Finland from Eastern Europe. In the 1920s and 1930s, Jewish refugees fleeing the Russian Revolution and Nazi Germany set-tled in the country. Until the Holocaust, Finnish Jews stayed in close contact with their families and networks in Eastern Europe (mainly Lithuania, Belarus and the Poland of today) (Muir and Tuori ...
Venetian Ghetto. Beginning in 1516, the Republic obliged the Jews to live in an area of the city where the foundries, known in Venetian as geto, had been situated in ancient times, to wear a sign of identification and to manage the city's pawnshops at rates established by La Serenissima. Separated into two sections, ghetto vecchio and ghetto ...
Medieval Lateran decisions reflect the touchstone issues of medieval Jewish Christian relations, including conversion and the Crusades. Conversion was a central issue in Spain, where the combination of secular and sacred anti-Judaism resulted in decades of forced mass conversions, the most famous example being “The Great Conversion” of 1391 ...
Jan 27, 2022 · Until the 1930s, Icelanders’ only information on the Jewish people came from scripture or European antisemitism. The country was under Danish control in the 19th century, and in 1850 Denmark asked Iceland to pass a law allowing Jewish immigration. The proposed rule was eventually defeated in the Althing, Iceland’s parliament, but a few Jews ...
In the 12th century, Jews arrived in the Slovene lands fleeing poverty in Italy and central Europe. Even though they were forced to live in ghettos, many Jews prospered. Relations between Jews and the local Christian population were generally peaceful. In Maribor, Jews were successful bankers, winegrowers, and millers.
