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Assignment:
Questions:
1. 'If it were not for fear, would abhorrence continue itself? Man fears what he does not know or understand; he is easily molded by these fears to trust those who know the truth and those with power. What does the author mean by this statement and is it applicable in 2023? Explain your reasoning.
2. What factor will make the Jews the scapegoat in the eyes of Christians?
3. How did the ethnic composition of the first-century church begin to change rapidly from a Jewish majority to a Gentile majority? What caused the shift from Judaic practices to Christianity?
4. What is the earliest persecution of Jews on record?
5. What are some Jewish customs that caused misunderstandings and eventually animosity among other religions?
6. What are some of the physical descriptions of the plague as described in the reading?
7. How many Jews lived in Europe at the end of the 14th Century according to the reading? What practice caused discord between the Jews and Christians?
8. Which protestant religious thinker attacked the Jews? How did Adolf Hitler describe this man?
9. Based on the reading, the foundations of anti-Semitism for modern-day Europe are found in what event?
10. What caused the diseases, and how did it spread?
11. How was the persecution during the Black Plague different from the other 500 years of Jewish history in Europe? Why could the mobs not be controlled?
12. Describe what happened to the Jewish communities in the southern German States and in France.
13. Where did the majority of the Jews flee to and why?
14. What Jewish practices protected them from the Plague, according to historians? What commands were Jews following that allowed this?