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- difference is that political parties and ideologies with specifically anti- Armenian view never appeared
- ideology started play a role when the Young Turks came into power, genocide 1915-23
- Paranoid that the Jews wanted to take over the world
- History of Christian inspired discrimination, expulsion, and massacre
- Burdens thrown onto the Jewish population as early as 4th century of the Christian era, when Emperor Constantine converted and joined force to with the anti-Jewish animus of the Christian church. Burden was the Pariah status in Christendom
- Weber= communal group whose social economic, and political autonomy is strictly limited, while enduring social, economic, and political discrimination in a larger society
- Prohibited from commensality and intermarriage and is legally and forcefully segregated in its own residential area or ghetto
- Believed not to be a Pariah but that they were chosen for a special task
- Jews degraded during and after the crusades and the black death
- Although large of Jews desired to live separate lives, seldom had rights of residence and they lived out their lives at the sufferance of their Christian neighbors and rulers
- By fifth century, Christianity had two sides, Christology, the contemplation and glorification of Christ as the Messiah and the son of god and Adversus Judaeos, the theological denunciation and condemnation of Judaism and the Jews.
- Synoptic conception as well as the writings of Paul are anti Jewish, accusations of Jews of deicide and of murdering their own prophets
- Christian anti- Judaism does not stem from the accusation of the deicide, but the accusation of deicide is a product of Christian anti-Judaism
- The church fathers had strong opinions about the Jews and would teach hate so their followers wouldn't stray back into a synagogue
- They were relatively innocent because as long a the Christians had limited pol...